Senior Specialist: Technology Architect at Vodacom

The Software Engineer Delivers Through Self And Others To

• Modernize legacy applications by moving them to the cloud and conform to well architect framework to ensure cost efficiency, resilience, high-availability and performance.
• Building applications that make use of large volumes of data and generate outputs that allow commercial actions that generate incremental value.
• Support local markets and group functions in obtaining business value from the data & applications.

Your Responsibilities Will Include

• Analyzing existing processes and proposing solutions to move to the cloud.
• Provision & maintain cloud resources.
• Build applications for failure.
• Use API first and use managed and server-less architecture as far as possible.
• Make contributions to the process of defining best practices for the agile development of applications to run on the AWS cloud platform.
• Ensure the highest quality of software releases.

The ideal candidate for this role will have

• Matric / Grade 12 Essential
• 3 year IT or IS degree or diploma is Essential
• Relevant cloud certification at the professional or associate level
• 3 to 5 years of working experience in related software development.
• Agile exposure, Kanban or Scrum

Core Competencies And Knowledge

• Experience managing the development life-cycle for agile software development projects
• Experience working with serverless services such AWS Lambda
• Working experience with AWS is Essential. Python programming ability is Essential. Experience querying data from Relational Databases using SQL is Essential.