Job Vacancies at Vodafone Global Enterprise

Role Purpose/Business Unit:

• The ERP Systems team is accountable for delivering new process improvement functionalities within the EVO ERP platform. The Project Manager – EVO ERP Systems will play a pivotal and high visibility role within the local market, responsible for leading and executing a portfolio of Tax, Legal, and Statutory projects that enable Vodacom’s digital strategy.
• This role will focus on driving operational efficiencies, enhancing process optimisation, and supporting the ongoing digitalisation of Finance Operations. It provides an exciting opportunity to contribute to a major finance transformation programme with significant impact across the organisation, while deepening expertise in end to end finance processes.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Be on the frontline every day; partnering with the chosen systems integrator, Group and your market as well as Finance, HR and Supply Chain  together with IT central teams to help shape and execute the project every step of the way
• Accountable for project deliverables ensuring a successful implementation on time, on budget with agreed quality as per delivery exit criteria
• Manage and influence Local stakeholders to facilitate a smooth project delivery and the expectations of local management with respect to the process and systems changes.
• Leads overall project execution including business transformation & technology implementation projects focusing on budget, time and quality
• Establishes the governance processes for the project to ensure proper and timely decision making with all key stakeholders
• Apply techniques for planning, tracking, change control and risk management
• Reviews and challenges  local market implementation plan and mitigation actions
• Identifies any potential deviations from agreed timelines or quality levels and manages stakeholders and teams to resolve the issues
• Escalation point for the project members and central teams
• Be equally adept at people and business management

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• Matric / Grade 12 is essential 
• 3 year relevent IT Degree/Diploma essential
• Certified PM skills i.e. Prince 2, PMI and Agile  or have equivalent experience
• 5 – 8 years relevant experience

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

• The knowledge Agile methods to initialize, plan, execute, control and monitor local  projects
• Skills and leadership competencies for people relations, negotiation, decision making, and problem solving including conflict management
• Strong experience of managing and deploying complex global billing systems / data warehouse projects
• 5 years+ recent telecoms experience
• Experience in deploying billing systems / data warehouse, ideally with Shared service centre integration
• Abilities to deal within a multicultural environment
• Strong presentation, communication skills and decision making skills with the ability to balance conflicting needs

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: 31 March 2026 

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Role Purpose/Business Unit:

• To perform engineering, architecture, optimisation, dimensioning, high level support and research of the Telco over Cloud common infrastructure. To provide support in this regard to both internal and external, local and international teams.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Detailed network architecture design, planning and implementation of all Telco over Cloud infrastructure
• Detailed network architecture design, planning and implementation of VIM/Hypervisor layer for virtualisation and containerisation
• Research, manage, scoping, specification, testing and roll out of new application, products, services and equipment on TOC infrastructure
• Manage roll out of new software as well as firmware on the TOC environment
• Co-ordinate and execute acceptance testing
• Provide High level support to internal and external customers
• Development of tools to assist within the planning and optimisation of the Core Packet Switching network
• Interface with and communicate technical concepts in a clear manner-to internal, external customers and suppliers
• Maintain Relationships with the respective vendors and divisions
• Evaluate system architecture and recommend system improvements to other engineering departments and suppliers

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• Matric (Essential)
• A 3 year degree/diploma in Engineering, Computer Science or Electrical or equivalent qualification. (Essential)
• Minimum 3 Years’ experience in a combined Networking and telecommunications environment (Essential) 
• A minimum 1-2 years’ experience in Core Networks Elements (Essential) 
• At least 2 years proven working experience of Internet Protocol (IP) (Essential) 
• Working knowledge of virtualisation and containerisation, VMware, Fushion Sphere, OpenShift and Kubernetes desirable 
• Research, evaluation, acceptance testing and implementation of new vendors in a telecommunication environment desirable
• Minimum 1-2 years experience of GSM, GPRS/UMTS/LTE principles and protocols (Essential)
• A good knowledge and understanding of the NFV/SDN/IoT will be an added advantage
• CDN knowledge will be an added advantage

Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:

• Relevant GSM Core systems 
• GPRS/ LTE/ WiFi/ Mobile Convergence, NFV, Orchestration and SDN
• Telco over Cloud Infrastructure Design
• VIM/Hypervisor Design (KVM Openstack, VMWare, Kubernetes etc.)
• Data systems (IPv4, IPv6 Firewalls, Routers, Switches, IPLCS, Policy Control, load balances, service platforms, DNS)
• Telecommunication Industry and current government telecomm legislation as well as developments within ETSI/3GPP IETF and ITU-T
• Business Acumen/ Ethics
• MS Office
• Analytical
• Communication 
• Decision making 
• Delegating 
• Interpersonal 
• Presentation/Facilitation
• Problem solving 
• Time Management 
• Self-Management 
• Change Management  

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: 03 April 2025.

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What you’ll do

Role purpose: 

• The Specialist: Power Performance is responsible for providing performance optimisation across telecommunications site power systems in the MAST portfolio. The role ensures that power solutions are reliable, compliant, commercially viable, and fit for current and future tenant requirements.
• This role combines technical design, power performance analytics, and operational optimisation to improve site resilience, uptime, and cost efficiency. The incumbent will support the development and improvement of grid, rectifier, battery, generator, hybrid, and cooling solutions, while ensuring alignment with internal standards, customer requirements, and business performance objectives.

Who you are

Key accountabilities and decision ownership : 

Power Performance Engineering 

• Review and assess power requirements for co-location, network expansion, and site upgrades.
• Provide technical guidance and approval recommendations for power solutions based on capacity, resilience, and site constraints.
• Ensure engineering decisions are documented and supported by clear technical rationale.
• Act as a technical authority on power system performance and optimisation initiatives.
• 2. Power Performance Optimisation
• Analyse site power performance using RMS and operational data.
• Identify performance gaps, inefficiencies, recurring failures, and optimisation opportunities.
• Develop site-specific optimisation plans to improve uptime, battery performance, generator utilisation, and overall service quality.
• Support operations and maintenance teams with practical performance improvement interventions.

Technical Assessments and Diagnostics

• Analyse site surveys, audits, and technical reports to determine system condition and performance risk.
• Identify issues related to rectifier loading, battery autonomy, generator performance, cooling demand, and power quality.
• Produce clear technical findings and prioritised recommendations for remediation or upgrade.

Compliance, Risk and Assurance

• Ensure all power performance interventions align with applicable standards, policies, and safety requirements.
• Apply risk-based engineering principles to design, upgrade, and operational decisions.
• Support technical audits, compliance reviews, and corrective action tracking.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives related to quality, safety, and engineering governance.

Upgrade Planning and Solution Development

• Develop and recommend power upgrade solutions to support load growth, resilience targets, and tenant requirements.
• Evaluate technical options including rectifier upgrades, battery enhancements, generator strategies, hybrid operation, and renewable integration.
• Provide technical inputs into designs, specifications, and implementation requirements.
• Ensure recommendations are practical, scalable, and aligned to operational realities.

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• High attention to detail and quality.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• Stakeholder engagement and collaboration.
• Sound judgement and decision-making.
• Strong planning and execution discipline.

Must have technical / professional qualifications: 

• Grade 12 (Matric).
• National Diploma or Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering (or related field).
• Minimum 5 years experience in telecommunications.
• Experience in telecom site power systems, including rectifiers, batteries, generators, and power distribution.
• Experience in technical analysis, performance optimisation, and power system troubleshooting.
• Experience in interpreting technical surveys, audits, and engineering documentation.
• Experience in developing technical scopes, recommendations, and implementation requirements.     

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What you’ll do

Role purpose: 

• To support the achievement of MAST’s key business objectives by serving as a strategic Finance Business Partner, delivering insightful financial planning, analysis, and reporting. The role focuses on Capex, Opex, and Estates activities, while promoting strong financial governance and enabling effective business decision-making.

Who you are

Key Responsibilities:

Financial Planning and Forecasting

• Development and improvement of financial plans including the Long Range Plan, Annual Budgets, and Rolling Forecasts.
• Provide full financial coverage across the Profit & Loss (P&L) and Statement of Financial Position (SOFP).
• Collaborate with the business to forecast capital expenditure (Capex), track actuals vs. budget, and support broader Capex-related initiatives.

Performance Reporting and Insights

• Deliver monthly and quarterly financial performance reports with insightful analysis.
• Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and variances to targets, providing meaningful insights and recommendations to drive performance improvements.
• Ensure robust financial control and governance over reported results.

Expenditure and Productivity Management

• Partner with business units to manage and optimize operating expenditure (Opex), ensuring accurate reporting and compliance with budgetary targets.
• Identify, assess, and support the implementation of cost-saving and productivity initiatives across functions.

Estates and Ground Lease Support

• Provide financial analysis and business case evaluation for Estates-related projects, with a focus on ground lease assessments and long-term property planning.
• Work closely with Estates teams to ensure financially sound decision-making aligned with strategic objectives.

Financial Close and Operational Support

• Collaborate with Finance Operations to support month-end and year-end close processes, ensuring the accuracy and integrity of financial results.

Business Partnering and Broader Financial Support

• Act as a trusted advisor to business leaders, supporting them in financial decision-making and strategy execution.
• Contribute to any other Finance Business Partner-related activities as required, adapting to the evolving needs of the business

Core Competencies, Knowledge, and Experience:

• Planning, Execution & Delivering Quality Results:
• Demonstrates strong financial planning and forecasting capabilities across P&L, SOFP, and Capex

Communication, Teamwork & Collaboration: 

• Works effectively with cross-functional teams including finance operations, and business stakeholders.
• Customer Focus, Innovation & Continuous Improvement:
•  Proactively identifies opportunities to improve financial processes, enhance reporting, and support strategic initiatives.

Financial Expertise & Commercial Acumen:

• Works effectively with cross-functional teams including finance operations, and business stakeholders.
• Customer Focus, Innovation & Continuous Improvement: Proactively identifies opportunities to improve financial processes, enhance reporting, and support strategic initiatives.
• Financial Expertise & Commercial Acumen: Applies deep understanding of financial principles to provide meaningful analysis and drive informed decision-making.
• Judgment, Integrity & Decision Support: Exercises sound judgment in business case evaluations, cost management, and financial governance.

Relevant Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years' experience in financial planning, analysis, or business partnering roles.
• Experience in the TowerCo industry is preferred.
• Must have technical / professional qualifications: 
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting with Chartered Accountancy 

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Who you are

Key Responsibilities:

Financial Planning and Forecasting

• Development and improvement of financial plans including the Long Range Plan, Annual Budgets, and Rolling Forecasts.
• Provide full financial coverage across the Profit & Loss (P&L) and Statement of Financial Position (SOFP).
• Collaborate with the business to forecast capital expenditure (Capex), track actuals vs. budget, and support broader Capex-related initiatives.

Performance Reporting and Insights

• Deliver monthly and quarterly financial performance reports with insightful analysis.
• Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and variances to targets, providing meaningful insights and recommendations to drive performance improvements.
• Ensure robust financial control and governance over reported results.

Expenditure and Productivity Management

• Partner with business units to manage and optimize operating expenditure (Opex), ensuring accurate reporting and compliance with budgetary targets.
• Identify, assess, and support the implementation of cost-saving and productivity initiatives across functions.

Estates and Ground Lease Support

• Provide financial analysis and business case evaluation for Estates-related projects, with a focus on ground lease assessments and long-term property planning.
• Work closely with Estates teams to ensure financially sound decision-making aligned with strategic objectives.

Financial Close and Operational Support

• Collaborate with Finance Operations to support month-end and year-end close processes, ensuring the accuracy and integrity of financial results.

Business Partnering and Broader Financial Support

• Act as a trusted advisor to business leaders, supporting them in financial decision-making and strategy execution.
• Contribute to any other Finance Business Partner-related activities as required, adapting to the evolving needs of the business

Core Competencies, Knowledge, and Experience:

Planning, Execution & Delivering Quality Results:

• Demonstrates strong financial planning and forecasting capabilities across P&L, SOFP, and Capex

Communication, Teamwork & Collaboration: 

• Works effectively with cross-functional teams including finance operations, and business stakeholders.

Customer Focus, Innovation & Continuous Improvement:

• Proactively identifies opportunities to improve financial processes, enhance reporting, and support strategic initiatives.

Financial Expertise & Commercial Acumen:

• Works effectively with cross-functional teams including finance operations, and business stakeholders.
• Customer Focus, Innovation & Continuous Improvement: Proactively identifies opportunities to improve financial processes, enhance reporting, and support strategic initiatives.
• Financial Expertise & Commercial Acumen: Applies deep understanding of financial principles to provide meaningful analysis and drive informed decision-making.
• Judgment, Integrity & Decision Support: Exercises sound judgment in business case evaluations, cost management, and financial governance.

Relevant Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years' experience in financial planning, analysis, or business partnering roles.
• Experience in the TowerCo industry is preferred.
• Must have technical / professional qualifications: 
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting with Chartered Accountancy 

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What you’ll do

Role purpose: 

• To support, maintain and report on all of MAST Services’ revenue driving responsibilities including invoicing, debtor management, month end accounting and reporting, in compliance with internal policies and IFRS.

Who you are

Key accountabilities and decision ownership: 

• To support that MAST’s customer bills are accurate and delivered timeously 
• Reconciliation of MAST’s Billing system to the planned accounting
• To manage contracts and service level agreements with the business and suppliers. This includes the ability to manage a mix of off-shore and onshore suppliers
• To own accurate and complete invoicing according to contracts for allocated customers.
• To report and action any requirements to keep their allocated debtors book accounts in a status.
• To support month end close processes e.g. preparation, reconciliation and presentation.
• To support revenue and debtors reporting as well as other key reporting requirements e.g. Financial Year end.
• To establish a mutually beneficial
• relationship between various
• business role-players / process
• owners including IT and Commercial.

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

• IFRS compliant customer accounting including SOFP and SOCI
• EVO / SAP or other multinational ERP
• B2B invoicing from complex contracts
• Debtor’s book management.
• Ability to work across cross-functional and cultural boundaries. 

Must have technical / professional qualifications: 

• A Financial degree or equivalent is essential.
• A minimum of 3 years relevant experience in a telecoms or technology company.

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What you’ll do

Role purpose:

• Manage availability of maintenance and capacity upgrade spares, including related supply chain support requirements and control stock that includes the management of stock levels and reconcile assets within the regions

Who you are

Key Accountabilities:

• Take accountability for ensuring the availability of maintenance and capacity upgrade spares as per operational requirements.
• Implement strategies to optimize stock levels and prevent shortages.
• Manage related supply chain support requirements for spares, including procurement, transportation, and inventory management.
• Collaborate with supply chain teams to streamline processes and ensure timely spares delivery.
• Implement inventory control measures to minimize waste and optimize storage.
• Take responsibility for reconciling assets within the region, ensuring accurate records of spares and their movements.
• Conduct regular audits and reconciliations to maintain data integrity.
• Collaborate with vendors to negotiate pricing, terms, and delivery schedules for spares.
• Ensure adherence to quality standards and establish effective vendor relationships.

Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:

• Proficiency in inventory management practices, including forecasting, stock control, and order fulfilment.
• In-depth understanding of supply chain processes, including procurement, transportation, and logistics.
• Technical competence in understanding maintenance and capacity upgrade spares for the specific industry or sector.
• Familiarity with equipment specifications and spare part compatibility.
• Strong analytical skills to interpret data related to spares usage, stock levels, and supply chain metrics.
• Negotiation skills to effectively deal with vendors, ensuring favourable pricing and terms.
• Ability to assess vendor performance and make recommendations for improvements.

Must have technical / professional qualifications:

• A degree / Diploma in relevant field.
• Substantial experience in inventory or stock control roles, particularly in managing spare parts.
• 5-8 years’ experience in a technical role related to the industry or sector, providing a solid understanding of equipment and spare part requirements.
• Coordinates receiving, documentation, storage, and shipping of materials.
• Performs weekly cycle counts and monthly physical inventories to verify inventory levels in company systems.

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What you’ll do

Role purpose:

• Supports the technical operations management team, responsible for the end-to-end operational back-office support requirements relating to the coordination and alignment of multi-faceted subject matter experts' collaboration requirements and effective communication, including administrative support (record keeping, record maintenance and database administration) and operational financial support requirements (placement and receipting of purchase orders).

Who you are

Key Accountabilities:

• Co-ordinate the timely placement and receipting of purchase orders and to ensure regular reporting of network equipment ordered and provide end-to-end administrative support on purchase order requests in conjunction with the respective suppliers and business units within technical operations.
• Create the respective projects in the Management System and to track approval on all projects. Retrieve and process all new order requests from the Management System and maintain the system details.
• Oversee, co-ordinate and manage the process of receipting invoices in line with finance processes and ensure that all outstanding supplier payments are processed timeously.
• Maintain order registers and track each PO until fully receipted, compile regular reports from SAP/EVO on all orders placed and deliveries outstanding.
• Compile regular departmental reports as required and assist with the distribution of budget reports for the TowerCo Technical Operations business units.
• Continuously improve and develop processes to ensure effective order management practices.
• Maintain & coordinate operational activities and manage section deliverables.

Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:

• Strong interpersonal skills with excellent verbal and written communication, able to manage internal and external team coordination.
• Numerical reasoning with analytical thinking and strategic insight, proficient in problem solving, able to navigate through difficult business challenges. Preferably project accounting or purchasing management experience.
• Strong report writing skills with advanced understanding of MS Office (Word, Excel and Power Point) essential.

Must have technical/ professional qualifications:

• Matric essential.
• Minimum 3-5 years of business experience in a financial administration role within a technical environment, with extensive SAP/EVO working knowledge,
• Strong working knowledge of business operations and accounting concepts, work experience in an accounting, financial, purchasing or project management role advantageous

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What you’ll do

Role Purpose:

• The Operations & Maintenance Specialist role is responsible for the complete technical operations end-to-end service providers contract performance management and is responsible for overseeing service providers and ensuring that all service delivery compliance requirements are aligned with the technical and commercial requirements of the specific TowerCo technical operations business unit and the related needs of the organization.  
• This role requires the ability to closely work with various stakeholders, including Vendors, Projects Teams, Supply chain management, health and safety, information and technology and other compliance departments to ensure effective service delivery other aspects include telecommunication site construction and telecommunication site, tower, foundation, energy, etc. modifications in the field including reporting, acceptance, multi-tasking, and problem solving for all technical work established by the company.
• Ensuring all on site activities are compliant with the best practices in H&S and quality.

Who you are

Key accountabilities and decision ownership: 

• Initiate and follow through actions required to achieve, improve, or maintain the agreed infrastructure service levels within budget, time and quality.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders, including legal, finance, and procurement, to ensure that all contracts align with the organization's goals and objectives. Develop a reward based commercial agreement that will allow for performance-based remuneration and protect contract profitability while ensuring customer satisfaction and partner retention. 
• Review and analyse contracts to identify any potential risks or issues and develop strategies to mitigate those risks.
• Ensure that monitoring, measurement, reporting and evaluation of the Service Level Agreement KPIs are done to achieve value for money. The KPIs include target TTR, MTTR, MTBF, MTBSI & agree, maintain, and regularly review the SLAs and OLAs with the external service providers/contractors to ensure effective service delivery.
• Ensure that contract details and requirements are communicated timeously to all internal stakeholders as necessary.
• Ensuring all committed SLAs with various customers are met.

Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:

• Proven experience in contract management or a related field 
• Excellent negotiation and communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple contracts simultaneously.
• In-depth knowledge of legal and regulatory requirements related to contract management.
• Familiarity with contract management software and tools.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

Must have technical / professional qualifications: 

• Grade 12 is essential.
• Relevant Electrical and/or Mechanical and/or Facilities and /or Construction Management - 3 year Degree / Diploma (BSc, B.Tech, S4, N6, T3) (Essential)
• 3-5 years relevant Experience in network management

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Role Purpose/Business Unit:

• As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing, deploying, and operationalizing scalable machine learning solutions across multiple markets.
• You will work with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, data engineers, software engineers, and product managers to integrate models into production with a robust MLOps lifecycle.
• This role demands strong experience in ML engineering at scale, advanced automation, real-time model serving, and compliance-aware development.

Your responsibilities will include:

• ML System Design & Architecture: Architect and implement scalable, secure ML pipelines using tools like MLflow, SageMaker, or Databricks. Design reusable templates for batch and real-time inference.
• Production Model Deployment: Automate deployment of models into production with CI/CD, containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and feature stores.
• Model Monitoring & Governance: Implement real-time model monitoring, drift detection, and lineage tracking to ensure model performance and compliance.
• Collaboration & Delivery: Partner with data scientists to translate prototypes into production-ready code. Engage with software and data engineering teams to integrate models into larger systems and APIs.
• Automation & Testing: Enforce test-driven development for model code. Implement automated tests for pipelines, accuracy thresholds, and data validation.
• Documentation & Knowledge Sharing: Maintain clear technical documentation for models, pipelines, and workflows. Lead internal workshops on MLOps best practices and tooling.
• Mentorship: Mentor junior MLEs and data scientists on engineering best practices, reproducibility, and scalable ML system design.

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.
• Master’s degree or PhD preferred (especially with specialization in Machine Learning, AI, or Distributed Systems).

Experience:

• 8+ years in data science or ML engineering roles, including at least 5 years in production-grade ML deployment and operationalization.
• Hands-on experience with distributed computing frameworks and model orchestration at enterprise scale. 

Preferred Certifications

• AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty
• Databricks Certified ML Professional
• Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• MLflow or MLOps specialization (e.g., DeepLearning.AI, Coursera)

Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:

Technical Skills

• Languages: Python (mandatory), Bash, SQL; optional: Scala or Java.
• ML Libraries & Frameworks: Scikit-learn, XGBoost, TensorFlow, PyTorch.
• MLOps & Model Lifecycle: MLflow, SageMaker, Databricks, Kubeflow, Airflow.
• Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, S3, SageMaker, IAM, EKS), Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker.
• Feature Engineering: Feature Stores (e.g., SageMaker Feature Store, Feast).
• Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Evidently AI.
• Security & Compliance: RBAC, KMS, encryption, reproducibility, model versioning.

Soft Skills

• Strategic problem-solver with strong system thinking.
• Excellent communication and technical storytelling across technical and business stakeholders.
• Comfortable working in agile squads and fast-paced delivery environments.
• Passionate about enabling ML at scale and setting engineering standards.

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: 06 April 2025. 

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Role Purpose/Business Unit:

• To provide architectural and design guidance and expertise to Technology and Vodacom as a whole for technical and commercial initiatives.
• To support the overall deployment/upgrade/evolution of Vodacom technical platforms from an architectural perspective.

Your responsibilities will include:

• To collaborate with the Enterprise Architecture team and broader Technology Group in order to co-produce the long-term Vodacom Enterprise Architecture.
• To collaborate on technical Evolution Roadmaps for various technologies within or across domains, taking into consideration the relevant standards, industry and market trends and relevant business needs.
• To produce technical Target Architectures for technical domains in order to transform the Technology landscape in line with the company strategy.
• To communicate effectively maintain sound Relationships at the relevant levels within the Company and all other Commercial customers within Vodacom in accordance with agreed strategies with Line Management.

This includes:

• To be able to communicate at all levels within the organization through documented outputs tailored to the specific project/initiative, engagement, audience and desired outcome. This could include written documents, presentations, reports, memos, meetings, workshops, etc.
• To effectively present outputs produced to all levels (with management support at CxO levels) within the organization.
• To work with a peer architect group in requesting and providing peer review and guidance on initiatives and deliverables.
• To produce global industry standard, professionally written documents for all initiatives.

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• Matric/Grade 12 (or SAQA Accredited equivalent) is essential
• A 3-year degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering (Light Current) is essential. Honour’s degree preferred
• A minimum of 2-5 years total experience in the telecommunications Industry is essential, 2 years of which should ideally be in Architecture, Systems Planning or Systems Design. 

Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:

In depth knowledge/experience of the Telecommunication Industry in one of the following domains:

• Mobile Telecommunications technologies, including Access, Transmission and Core Network knowledge, both Circuit and Packet switched
• Mobile bearer technologies as defined by 3GPP/IETF/GSMA
• Data, AI & Analytics technologies Enterprise platforms such as data lakes, Data Lakehouse, Data Management & Governance and analytics platforms for reporting and insights. This includes AI/ML capabilities that would enable data driven decision making, operational optimization and insights within Telecommunications
• Telecommunications BSS knowledge including (but not limited to) CRM , Technologies (including Online), Charging/Billing/Mediation, MCCM/BI Technologies and Middleware/Integration Technologies.
• Digital Evolution technologies including 5G, Cloud, Platforms, Microservices, Disruptive Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Robotic Process Automation, Internet of Things and so forth.
• General knowledge of key technology concepts that impact Telecommunications and the broader ICT industry in order to provide thought leadership
• Enterprise Architecture Methodologies, Standards and Best Practices as defined by industry architectural bodies.
• Communications skills including interpersonal skills, presentation skills, negotiation skills, relationship building ability, management reporting etcetera.
• Use of English language for professional technical writing to produce presentations and documents that are of global industry standard.

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: 06 April 2025.