Senior Specialist: Technology Architect at Vodacom

• To provide architectural and design guidance and expertise to Technology and Vodacom as a whole for technical and commercial initiatives.
• To support the organization in providing end-to-end thought leadership and strategic guidance. These initiatives include key strategic technology evolution initiatives as well as key capability enabling initiatives.
• To own/lead the overall deployment/upgrade/evolution of Vodacom technical platforms from a strategic guidance and architectural perspective.

Key Accountabilities And Decision Ownership
Your responsibilities will include:

Technology

• To lead the Technology Architecture team and broader Technology Group in order to co-produce the long-term Vodacom Enterprise Architecture.
• To produce technical Target Architectures or technical domains in order to transform the Technology landscape in line with the company strategy.
• To collaborate on Key Strategic Initiatives from an architectural perspective, that provide thought leadership or strategic direction by liaising with and aligning (when required) Technology and all other relevant BU’s to provide technical and non-technical guidance for a particular area of focus.
• To lead technology domain owners by defining Technical Evolution Roadmaps for various technologies within or across domains in terms of evolution of technologies within or across domains, taking into consideration the relevant standards, industry and market trends and relevant business needs.
• To conceptualize architectural guidance for the Procurement of new technologies and systems through various SCM processes.

This Includes

• To Communicate effectively maintain sound Relationships at the relevant levels within the Company and all other Commercial teams within Vodacom in accordance with agreed strategies with Line Management.
• 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, memos, meetings, workshops, etc.
• To effectively present outputs produced to all levels within the organization.
• To work with a peer architect group in requesting and providing peer review and guidance on initiatives and deliverables.
• To compile reporting information to be presented to all levels of management.