Managing Executive: Platform Engineering at Vodafone Global Enterprise

Role Purpose

• To align and deliver on the Vodacom SA strategic roadmap and technical capabilities in the Platform Engineering and Enterprise IT domain, leading the technical teams across all disciplines, aligned with the Tech2025 Group strategy, including the cloud transformation program.

Your Responsibilities Will Include

Financial management

• Budget planning, budget rollout execution, supplier management, contract compilation & monitoring. Definition and implementation of ongoing cost efficiency (Smart IT) programs, to ensure that the overall run costs in the environment reduces year on year. Ensure robust business cases and forecasts on on-premise obsolescence, cloud transformation and Enterprise IT Capital Expenditure.

Leadership & HR management

• Define strategy aligned goals, lead the digital transformation within the Group, and the adoption of DevSecOps delivery practises, ensuring an engaged, purpose driven and motivated team. Ensure that there is a detailed upskilling and training plan, to ensure that all team members have the skills to perform their roles optimally. Build effective and constructive relationships with all of the key business stakeholders and leaders.

Enterprise IT, application rollout & operations

• Ensure delivery of all defined business outcomes, uncompromised delivery on all deliverables agreed in the Product Increment (PI), delivery of robust and performant technical solutions. Ensuring robust technical operation of all implemented solutions and systems (on-premises and cloud). Identify key operational automation opportunities, and the define the journey to AI driven operations. Ensure that the Enterprise IT domain and all its components, and “future proof” and “always on”. Ensure a robust and scalable IT Network, fully aligned with the cyber security baseline and super controls. Define and execute the cloud transformation strategy and address all obsolescence proactively.

Strategy formulation & execution

• Define a documented 3-year technical strategy for the Platform Engineering and Enterprise IT systems environment, ensure alignment with key business outcomes, ensure all technical designs are tightly aligned with the Tech2025 strategy and defined golden rules. Further to the technical strategy, a clear strategy around people and governance processes to be defined to ensure alignment with Tech2025 and build a fit for the future organisation.

Governance & compliance

• Ensure that technical solutions are compliant to all documented Vodacom policies, with specific focus on Cyber Security and business continuity, on a day-to-day basis. Ensure that Group operates in accordance with the adopted Vodacom standards (e.g., AGILE, ISO).

The Ideal Candidate For This Role Will Have

Must have technical/professional qualifications:

• Degree / Diploma in Information Systems, Computer Sciences, Electrical Engineering (or similar tertiary qualification)
• 10 – 12 years management experience, in a large-scale technical delivery domain, preferably in Platform Engineering and Enterprise IT disciplines.
• Experience in Platform and Enterprise IT technical architecture, operation and delivery.
• Detailed knowledge of Platform and Enterprise IT products and design methodologies.
• Detailed knowledge of cloud-based platform engineering and design architectures and toolsets.
• Proven record of leading large-scale operational team, across various IT disciplines.

Core Competencies, Knowledge And Experience

• People leadership and management of large teams, working in accordance with DevSecOps practices, aligned with robust Vodacom operational methodologies.
• Management of large scale complex technical transformations, from on-premise to public cloud-based technologies, IT network modernisation and full alignment to the Vodacom cyber security baseline and super controls.
• Knowledge and proven implementation of Enterprise IT (OIT) delivery, including management of an IT network.
• Platform Engineering strategy, tooling & products design and implementation, both on-premises and in cloud.
• Management of technical operations, in a large-scale on-premises and cloud-based data and analytics technical environment. This includes alignment of operations to DevSecOps principles and AI Driven operations.

Closing date for Applications: 12 May 2023.