Digital Architect at Vodacom Tanzania Plc

Digital Architect at Vodacom Tanzania Plc

Iringa

Vodacom Tanzania Plc

Vodacom Tanzania Limited is Tanzania’s leading cellular network company.

Digital Architect at Vodacom Tanzania Plc

Role Purpose

The Digital Architect is responsible for defining maintaining and evolving the emerging architecture that enables the digital vision and business objectives, maximising the value of technology disruptions into current and future capabilities. This role is responsible for identifying, analysing, and directing the execution of change towards the digital architecture vision and digital business vision, by providing and prioritising “technical epics”.

Job Responsibility

• Manage architecture vision and roadmap in alignment with the Digital Architecture blueprint from Vodacom Group
• Oversee and lead the design, development, and deployment of digital architecture practices, standards, patterns and innovations
• Scout new technologies to enable innovation and identify technical enablers
• Manage innovation and establish the capability to monitor new technology developments and trends in the industry
• Provide expertise on foundational digital architecture best practices and disruptive technology trajectory and implications
• Enterprise architecture governance in agile software delivery
• Definition of integration APIs and ecosystem strategy
• Technology innovation: scouting, screening and evaluation

Core competencies, knowledge and experience

• Estimation techniques for scaled Agile
• Web-scale cloud-native architectures including IaaS, PaaS and SaaS
• Design of infrastructure strategy and roadmap
• Design of web-scale architectures and systems of innovation and engagement
• DevSecOps practices and automation tools
• Artificial intelligence, Machine Learning, and Big Data technologies and architectures
• Trusted and respected as a thought leader and change agent who can influence and persuade business and IT leaders
• Excellent analytical, technical, and problem-solving skills, with high levels of creativity and a practical approach that is principle-driven
• Ability to balance the long term and short-term implications of individual decisions and effective at driving short term actions that are consistent with long-term goals
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to distil complex technical concepts into simple terms, with strong persuasion skills to gain support for principles, standards and change
• Excellent relationship building, teamwork, and collaboration skills that enables the provision of effective support and guidance across programmes
• Knowledge of the Telecommunications and digital services market and emerging business and technology trends

Digital Architect at Vodacom Tanzania Plc

Must have technical / professional qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or other related field
• Three or more years’ 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
• Experience in business capability modelling and technical and solution architecture development in a digital business context

Skills

• MicroServices and APIs_FRHR
• Digital Experience Platforms
• Coding
• Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD)
• Security
• Architecture and Design
• Software Engineering
• User Interface (UI) Design
• User Experience (UX) Design
• DevOps
• Cloud_FRHR
• Testing and Evaluation
• Data Analytics and Insights
• Agile
• System, Service and Solution Design and Development

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