Role Purpose/Business Unit:
- The role of Lead Digital Architect is to drive the end-to-end design and evolution of modern, scalable, and secure digital platforms across the enterprise.
- This role will play a pivotal role in shaping and executing the strategic technology direction of Vodacom.
- This role involves collaborating with various stakeholders to design and implement innovative and effective enterprise-level solutions that align with business objectives.
- The ideal candidate should have a deep understanding of architectural principles, emerging technologies, and a proven track record of successfully leading complex IT initiatives.
Your responsibilities will include:
Technical Architecture Leadership
- Define and own the target digital architecture across channels (web, mobile, API, integration layers, cloud).
- Translate business strategies into architecture blueprints, roadmaps, and patterns.
- Lead architecture governance, ensuring alignment to enterprise principles and technology standards.
- Provide architectural oversight across solution domains, including cloud-native platforms, microservices, APIs, and event-driven systems.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to cross-functional teams, ensuring adherence to architectural best practices and standards.
- Mentor and coach junior architects and technical staff to enhance their architectural skills and capabilities.
Enterprise Architecture Strategy:
- Develop and communicate a comprehensive digital architecture strategy that aligns with the Vodacom’s strategy and purpose.
- Collaborate with leadership to define and prioritize technology initiatives that support business growth and innovation.
Solution Design and Architecture:
- Design and document end-to-end enterprise architecture solutions that encompass systems, applications, data, and infrastructure elements.
- Evaluate and recommend technologies, frameworks, and methodologies to optimize IT systems and processes.
Risk Management:
- Identify potential technical risks and develop mitigation strategies to ensure the security, scalability, and reliability of enterprise solutions.
- Review and assess the impact of proposed changes to the architecture, making informed decisions that balance innovation and stability.
Collaboration and Communication:
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, project managers, scrum masters and development teams to gather requirements and translate them into architectural designs.
- Clearly communicate architectural concepts and decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Vendor Management:
- Evaluate third-party solutions and vendors, ensuring they align with the overall architecture strategy and meet the company's technical requirements.
Technology Trends:
- Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices, and recommend how they can be leveraged to improve the enterprise architecture.
Governance and Compliance:
- Enforce architectural governance, ensuring that projects and solutions adhere to established architectural principles and standards.
- Ensure compliance with relevant industry regulations and standards.
The ideal candidate for this role will have:
- Bachelor's, Honours or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
- Proven experience (typically 8+ years) in enterprise architecture, solution design, and IT leadership roles.
- Relevant certifications (e.g., TOGAF, AWS/Azure/GCP certifications) are a plus.
Core competencies, knowledge and experience:
- Cloud Architecture: Deep expertise in AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Microservices & APIs: Strong understanding of microservices patterns, REST, GraphQL, and API management platforms (e.g., Apigee, Kong).
- DevOps & Automation: Proficient with CI/CD pipelines, containers (Docker, Kubernetes), observability, and GitOps workflows.
- Security: Familiar with application security, identity management (OAuth2, SSO, OpenID), and secure-by-design principles.
- Data & Integration: Understanding of modern data platforms (e.g., event streaming with Kafka, data lakes), ETL patterns, and real-time analytics.
- Strong expertise in architecture frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman, etc.) and methodologies.
- Experience with a variety of technologies, such as databases, networking, security, and integration.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to address complex technical challenges.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, capable of collaborating effectively with diverse teams.
- Experience with a variety of technologies, such as databases, networking, security, and integration.
- Knowledge of emerging technologies/ industry trends along with the ability to leverage them in application development and support initiatives
- Capable of articulating the business value of IT investments/projects and collaborating with partners and cross-functional groups during implementation
- Adeptness to engage as a consultative face of IT to the Business and enable technology to address business challenges and improve operational efficiency
- Skill to integrate new technologies with existing business initiatives and understanding the business processes and customer needs
- Good understanding of governance framework (roles and responsibilities, escalation and communication process, handoffs and control points)
- Ability to make recommendations as they pertain to improvements in support/development initiatives and facilitate implementation with partners, IT and cross-functional groups within the Business
- Capacity to manage conflict with partners and cross-functional groups within the Business and IT
- Ability to work with multi-national teams, understand and respect cultural diversity and develop messages that help achieve objectives with diverse audiences
We make an impact by offering:
- Enticing incentive programs and competitive benefit packages
- Retirement funds, risk benefits, and medical aid benefits
- Cell phone and data benefits, advantages fibre connection discounts, and exclusive staff discounts offered in collaboration with partner companies
Closing date for Applications: 21 July 2025.
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