Solutions Architect - JHB at Vodafone Global Enterprise

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 
• Five to seven years 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 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
• 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, PaaSand 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