Job Opportunities at Vodafone Global Enterprise

Role Purpose:

Infinity Services Partner Company is a Managed Services Business, wholly owned by and a fully-fledged subsidiary of Vodacom .Infinity Services Partner Company is looking for a Solution Architect. The Solution Architect is responsible for designing and leading the implementation of a solutions and capability architecture for business capability, according to the overall business vision and target architecture.  This role is responsible for the technical analysis and solution design of future capabilities and features, including external dependencies, cross-domain APIs, and technical enablers.  This role is responsible for reviewing the target architecture vision and roadmap, evaluating and prioritizing roadmap items, and translating them into designs and non-functional requirements.  The role is also responsible to provide support within the system development lifecycle of a project/initiative that could vary from providing subject-matter expertise; testing resources; post-deployment support; and/or being business/technical liaisons relating to the solution delivery.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Translate the overall business 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 designs to enable business capabilities, fostering re-use of existing components, and accept technical features following demos
• Collaborate to plan the release of technical designs
• 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 technology 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.
• Experience working with agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, TDD, and BDD
• Professional experience and knowledge of Telecommunications industries strongly preferred
• Solution architecture and design
• Feasibility analysis
• Business capability / customer journey architecture governance in agile delivery.
• Technical enablers, integration APIs,  and detailed technical and operational design
• Infrastructure design
• Estimation techniques for scaled agile 
• Technology Innovation: scouting, screening and evaluation
• Excellent analytical, technical, and problem solving skills, with high-levels of creativity
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills, with both technical and business audiences
• Excellent relationship building, teamwork, and collaboration skills that enables the provision of effective support and guidance across multiple DevOps teams
• Understanding of both the current Telecommunications and technology trends
• Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies, with natural intellectual curiosity and integrity
• Sound business understanding and market awareness
• Ability to understand long-term (‘big picture’) and short-term perspectives of events and change and how they relate to achieving business outcomes
• Strong time-management skills, with the ability to juggle multiple balls
• The base location for this role is, Centurion, Infinity Services Partner Division 

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Role purpose:

The Senior Specialist Software Engineer role is based within the Technology Business Unit.The Senior Specialist Software Engineer is responsible for owning, leading, and driving software and platform engineering practices in the Platform Enablement domain within Digital Engineering. In this role, you will be providing expert knowledge of cloud platform design, implementation, orchestration, and automation (eg. IaaC) as required to streamline software delivery within Digital Engineering. You will be accountable for the solutions and technology used to drive automation in the Platform Enablement domain, as well as provide leadership and oversight over the Platform Enablement Squad on a day-to-day basis.
 You will be required to collaborate with other software engineering leads to improve the overall practice of Software Engineering across the delivery organization, ensuring the development of highly skilled and motivated practice members.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading the DevSecOps practices and defining the standards and guardrails for Platform Enablement across Digital Engineering. 
• Organizing interactions between the member's Platform Enablement squad to nurture best practices and encourage knowledge- & tool-sharing.
• Act as a supporting leader, aiming at maturing the organization's readiness, vs. controlling the work.
• Driving consolidation and harmonization of best practices on DevSecOps methodologies and practices to ensure standardization across all delivery squads in Digital Engineering.
• Implementing CI/CD, platform automation (IaaC) capabilities to drive speed of delivery.
• Act as Platform Security Champion by ensuring the implementation and automation of cyber security controls at various stages in the ‘secure-by-design delivery process to avoid and eliminate cyber security threats.
• Acts as a mentor for the specialist resources in the Platform Enablement domain, helping them grow in expertise and experience in application technologies to ensure that they have the skills and knowledge to execute in delivery squads that touch and impact the Sales & Marketing domain.
• Actively promote the internal open-source model.

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• Matric/ Grade 12 is essential.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or equivalent qualification.
• At least 5 years of relevant experience of which a minimum of three years is in programming. 
• and/or systems engineering.
• Experience working with agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, LSD, and FDD. 
• Experience working with multiple programming and markup languages, such as Python, JavaScript, Java, SQL, XML, JSON, and YAML, and paradigms such as object-oriented-, event-driven-, procedural-, functional-, and declarative programming.
• Experience working with Infrastructure as Code (IaaC), such as Terraform, Bash, Ansible, and Puppet.
• Experience working with multiple server, software, and hardware platforms and cloud-native environments.
• Strong knowledge of systems engineering principles. 
• Professional experience and knowledge of the Telecommunications industry are preferred. 
• Certified Scrum Developer (CSD) preferred. 
• Competency in UX principles and practices is preferred.

Closing date for Applications: 19 January 2023.