Solution Architect - Vodapay - JHB at Vodafone Global Enterprise

Your responsibilities will include:

• Translate the overall Superapp and mobile wallet roadmap 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 preferred
• 5 to 8 years of experience in at least three disciplines, such as solution or technical architecture, application development, middleware, information analysis, database management or operations in a multitier environment
• 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
• Experience in the payments industry especially focussed on mobile wallet implementations
• In-depth knowledge of industry products, industry regulation/compliance, best practices and industry trends 
• Understanding of FinTech strategies, Ecommerce/M-commerce
• Knowledge of Cloud platforms, APIs, ISO standards and integration best practices
• Understanding of frontend and app development framework and architecture
• 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