Job Vacancies at Vodafone Global Enterprise

About the Job

Role purpose:

• The Solution Architect is responsible for designing and leading the implementation of solutions and capability architecture for a particular business capability/user journey, according to the overall digital vision and target architecture. This role is responsible for the technical analysis and holistic solution design of future capabilities and features, including external dependencies, cross-domain APIs, and technical enablers. This role is responsible for reviewing/designing the target architecture vision and roadmap, evaluating and prioritizing roadmap items, and translating them into designs and non-functional requirements. The incumbent is responsible for providing support to engineering to ensure the development of technical stories is aligned to defined architecture paradigms, principles, and patterns.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Translate the overall digital 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 stories to enable business capabilities, foster re-use of existing components, and accept technical features following demos.
• Guide delivery teams to ensure alignment.
• Facilitate solution compliance to security, privacy, and regulatory needs.
• Manage technical debt and technology obsolescence at the solution level.
• Advocate adoption of new technologies into solutions.

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• Matric/ Grade 12 is essential.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Systems Analysis, or another 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 modeling and technical and solution architecture development in a digital business context.
• Professional experience and knowledge of digital and Telecommunications industries are strongly preferred.

Closing date for Applications:05 October 2023.
The base location for this role is Midrand, Vodacom Campus.

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About the Job

Role Purpose

• Take accountability to lead, organise, plan and control multiple projects in a manner that will ensure the successful completion of specific, large and high-risk projects.
• To facilitate all scrum activities in an agile environment, to enable project teams to complete assigned tasks within set time, and to deliver quality solutions.
• Has the accountability to ensure that project goals and objectives are achieved within the overall scope and that project deliverables are within the agreed time frame, cost and as per defined and expected quality.
• To ensure that user requirements for the business are understood, documented, developed, tested and delivered on in line with user expectations.

Your responsibilities will include

• Project Management and Scrum Lead activities
  • Facilitate all scrum ceremonies i.e., stand-ups, product demos, sprint planning, backlog grooming and retrospective sessions
  • Define project scope and schedule while focusing on regular and timely delivery of value
• Monitoring and Control
  • Track and ensure that project milestones and deliverables are met
  • Manage project issues and risks
  • Manage scope and change control
  • Manage resource capacity
  • Manage project dependencies and critical paths
  • Pre-empt slippages and issues, and action mitigation plans to avert these
  • Facilitate the decision-making process with stakeholders and document accordingly
  • Offer specialist input and knowledge where necessary
  • Manage communication, monitoring, reporting and control activities throughout the project lifecycle to all levels of stakeholders
  • Produce and maintain the documents and status reports to support the above activities (Stand-up minutes, tracking and monitoring action items etc.)
• Team Management
  • Assist the team while holding team members accountable for their commitments
  • Coordinate and conduct activities with the team
  • Communicating between team members about requirements and planning
  • Lead and manage the team resources (resolving conflict, building a team identity, providing direction and clarity for their direct deliverables and activities)
  • Effectively communicate plans, timelines, expectations, and goals
  • Guide, motivate and empower project team members in agile best practices
  • Build, develop and grow business relationships with key product owners and operational teams to ensure the success of the delivery team
  • Support the team in resolution of issues
  • Using Agile methods and practices to ensure effective workflow through the team.
  • Helping the team understand the need for clear and concise product backlog items
  • Provide support to the Senior Specialists
• Product Owner Support
  • Support the Product Owner in managing customer expectations for project deliverables, managing stakeholder communications, and helping to implement an effective system of project governance
  • Formulating techniques for effective Product Backlog Management
  • Support the product owner to manage the product backlog and priorities
  • Ensuring that the product owner has clarity on arranging the product backlog to yield maximized value
  • Facilitating Scrum events as requested or needed
• Subscriber Billing
  • Performing daily, weekly and monthly Billing reconciliations to ensure that subscribers profile and billing profiles are aligned
  • To monitor and correct data incongruences that directly impact subscriber billing
  • To ensure Billing integrity and ensure customers Billing requirements as it relates to the reconciliations are fulfilled and implemented.
  • Perform ad hoc Billing investigations when required
• Technical
  • To perform business analysis and design activities by assessing requirements in terms of feasibility, impact and cost, thereby assisting to create and compile accurate user requirement documents when required.
  • To act as a technical liaison between business and the technical teams to ensure the required support from all areas when required.

The ideal candidate for this role will have
Technical / Professional Qualifications:

• A 3-year tertiary qualification – National Diploma / Bachelors degree with a minimum NQF Level 6, majoring in IT Systems/Data Analysis/Finance/Business (essential).
• Agile certification essential
• Scrum certification essential
• 3 – 5 years of relevant Project Management experience

Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:

• Experience working with agile methodologies,
• Experience in a Scrum lead role essential
• Kanban methodology advantageous
• JIRA/Confluence, MS Powerpoint, MS Project, or equivalent experience (preferred)
• Ability to effectively present and communicate outputs and ideas to various audiences
• Experience with compiling user requirement documents
• Experience with Qlik advantageous
• Knowledge of the Telecommunications Industry and Business Intelligence would be advantageous
• At least 2-3 years working in an operational and project management experience (desirable).
• Knowledge of Billing & CRM systems
• SQL skills required
• Being pro-active and well organised is essential

Closing date for Applications: 06 October 2023

The base location for this role is, The Towers, Cape Town.

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About the Job

Role purpose

• Project management - and overseeing of multiple projects and programmes from initiation to completion and delivered on time, within budget and to prescribed quality standards. Stakeholder management through effective communication with vendors, project team members and with customers.
• Performance tracking, monitoring and reporting on status of projects, programmes and budgets.

Your responsibilities will include

• To develop plans, develop scope for and to manage all aspects of projects including but not limited to new site build projects, site upgrade projects, site hardening projects, power upgrade projects, access upgrade projects, etc.
• To lead and manage vendors and project teams through effective communication, clearly assigning tasks and providing support and guidance
• To identify potential risks and to develop mitigation strategies to minimize project disruptions
• To creatively solve problems, challenges and obstacles arising during projects by finding solutions and making necessary adjustments to ensure successful delivery of projects
• To monitor progress, ensure data integrity, prepare and present reports including but not limited to project progress, budget tracking and control, efficiencies and improvement suggestions, etc.
• Planning, development and coordination of project
• Determine and develop project scope of work
• Develop comprehensive project plans
• Coordinate project resources
• Set project timelines
• Confirm positive business case
• Monitor and control budgets
• Successfully execute projects
• Stakeholder management
• Identify key stakeholders
• Set up clear communication channels with all stakeholders
• Assign tasks to vendors and project teams
• Support and guide stakeholders towards the common goals
• Ensure effective information flow to
• Customers
• Risk mitigation
• Pro-actively identify potential project risks
• Develop measures to minimize project disruptions
• Identify and implement strategic changes to mitigate risk in the long term
• Creative problem solving
• Identify challenges, obstacles and problems as early as possible
• Ensure immediate intervention to manage each problem
• Investigate the best solution to each problem in collaboration with other stakeholders
• Implement the agreed solution
• Implement strategic changes to manage future problems of the same kind
• Quality assurance, reporting and documents
• Ensure projects meet business quality standards and guidelines and align with
• Customer requirements.
• Keep comprehensive record of project tasks and progress on Operational Support System tool
• Prepare and present project status reports
• Evaluate project outcomes and identify lessons learned for future projects
• Identify areas for improvement in processes and implement best practices

The ideal candidate for this role will have
Technical / Professional Qualifications:

• 3-year Degree/National Diploma e.g. BSc (Construction Management), BSc (Quantity
• Surveying), Project Management , BEng or similar (essential)
• Drivers Licence Code 08 (essential)

Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:

• Competencies
• Project Management
• Teamwork
• Risk Management
• Problem solving and decision making
• Stakeholder engagement
• Knowledge
• Sound knowledge of project principles
• Knowledge of telecommunications – and construction environment and regulationsKnowledge of Telecommunication
• Infrastructure

Experience

• Three (3) years' experience in managing projects (essential)
• Telecommunications Infrastructure experience (essential)
• One (1) year experience in business management / finance / budget control (desirable)
• Closing date for Applications:28 September 2023

The base location for this role is,Port Elizabeth.