Senior Architect: Digital Solutions

* Lead the technical design and support the delivery of business capabilities on one more of our online platforms - web portal, mobile app, USSD, chat & other digital channels. * Responsible for the end-to-end technical of design of the sales and service journeys across a diverse set of products including mobile, broadband, gaming, video, content, IOT, mobile money, insurance. * Teams will operate in a squad and deliver capabilities and feature sets using the agile way of work. * Provide the necessary leadership to support the development of the technical solutions and must ensure that the solutions meet business needs and align with architectural standards & guidelines. * Produce designs for managing the organization's portfolio of "to be" and "as is" solutions - including systems (applications, processes and information), shared infrastructure services, and shared application service components to enable and drive targeted business outcomes. QUALIFICATONS and EXPERIENCE * Bachelor's degree in computer science, information-technology, engineering, system analysis or a related study with equivalent experience * Minimum of five years of experience in at least two IT solution development disciplines, including technical or infrastructure architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management or cloud development * Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms and processing environments * Good understanding of strategic and new and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of existing, new and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating models * Good understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies and capability of supporting agile teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt * Experience working in a Telecoms, Retail, Video, Content, Gaming industry is advantages * Experience developing architecture blueprints, solution designs, strategies and roadmaps * Experience delivering presentations to senior-management and technical audiences POSITION OUTPUTS Translates Business Strategy into Solutions Architecture: * Understands business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determines corresponding enterprise system designs and change requirements to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes. * Understands emerging technology trends and disruptions and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models. * Translates business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work. * Analyzes the technology industry, competitors and market trends, and determines their potential impact on the enterprise. * Provides deliverables like standard defini