Senior Specialist Solution Architect at Vodafone Global Enterprise

Role Purpose/Business Unit:

• The Solution Architect is responsible for designing and leading the implementation of a solutions and capability architecture for a particular business capability / user journey, according to the overall digital vision and target architecture.
• This role is responsible for the technical analysis and holistic solution design of future capabilities and features, including external dependencies, cross-domain APIs, and technical enablers / stories.
• This role is responsible for reviewing the target architecture vision and roadmap, evaluating and prioritizing roadmap items, and translating them into designs and non-functional requirements.
• This incumbent is responsible for providing support to engineering to ensure development of technical stories are aligned to defined architecture paradigms, principles, and patterns.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Translate the overall digital vision and target architecture into corresponding solution designs and change requirements
• Design end-to-end solutions and cross domain integration and APIs
• Define non-functional, operational, and quality requirements for solutions
• Define technical stories to enable business capabilities, fostering re-use of existing components, and accept technical features following demos
• Collaborate to plan the release of technical stories
• Provide guidance to delivery teams to ensure alignment
• Facilitate solution compliance to security, privacy, and regulatory needs
• Manage technical debt and technology obsolescence at solution level
• Advocate adoption of new technologies into solutions

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Systems Analysis, or other related field
• 5 – 7years of experience in at least three disciplines, such as business, information, solution or technical architecture, application development, middleware, information analysis, database management or operations in a multi-tier environment
• Min 5 years’ knowledge and experience of implementing Oracle Fusion, Web services, SOAP and RESTful interfaces, and XML
• Min 5 years’ experience and knowledge of IP networks and related solutions
• Min 5 years’ experience and knowledge of micro services architectures
• Extensive exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments
• Extensive experience in business capability modelling and technical and solution architecture development in a digital business context
• Experience working with agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, TDD, and BDD
• Professional experience and knowledge of digital and Telecommunications industries strongly preferred

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

• Solution architecture and design
• Feasibility analysis
• Business capability / customer journey architecture governance in agile software delivery
• Technical enablers, integration APIs, and detailed technical and operational story design
• Infrastructure design
• Estimation techniques for scaled agile
• Technology Innovation: scouting, screening and evaluation
• Cost of ownership of technology, application portfolio management
• Web-scale cloud-native architectures including IaaS, PaaS and SaaS
• Design of web-scale architectures and systems of innovation and engagement
• DevOps practices and automation tools
• Artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data technologies and architectures
• Management of technical debt
• Excellent analytical, technical, and problem solving skills, with high-levels of creativity
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills, with both technical and business audiences
• Excellent relationship building, teamwork, and collaboration skills that enables the provision of effective support and guidance across multiple DevOps teams
• Understanding of both the current Telecommunications and digital services market and emerging business and technology trends
• Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies, with natural intellectual curiosity and integrity
• Vendor and technology neutral –driven primarily by long-term business outcomes rather than personal preferences
• Sound business understanding and market awareness
• Ability to understand long-term (‘big picture’) and short-term perspectives of events and change and how they relate to achieving business outcomes
• Strong time-management skills, with the ability to juggle multiple balls

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: 30 March 2026