About Us

Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia Plc is a company supporting Ethiopia’s digital transformation. As a member of the Vodacom family, we have a wealth of experience connecting over 334 million people globally and over 180 million people in Africa across our network. We look forward to partnering with Ethiopians as we build a new network in Ethiopia.

We are setting the groundwork in readiness for the launch of our services next year and are looking to work with purpose-led teams that put the community at the heart of service.

Safaricom Ethiopia is offering a wide range of careers, whether you’re looking to join our technology, commercial or corporate teams. If you would like a challenge and the promise of a digital future for the people of Ethiopia, we are looking for you. 

We are pleased to announce the following vacancy for a Senior Solutions Architect in Operations and Planning department within the Enterprise Function in Ethiopia. In keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below.

Detailed Description

Reporting to the EHOD -Operations and Planning, the role holder responsibilities will be to set the directions for the solution design activities by assessing requirements in terms of feasibility, impact and cost, thereby advising and compiling accurate user requirements which are technically feasible and optimal to implement.

Job Responsibilities

• To maintain, re-evaluate, optimize or automate existing business processes
• To provide technical guidance into system definition and design activities and drive the delivery of value added solutions.
• Deliver an end-end Solution Architecture (Design) for the Enterprise road-map.
• Deliver Technical Impact Assessment for new Enterprise initiative
• Responsible to craft Solution Designs by leveraging existing network and also defining new network designs where there is a need
• Build design principles for the Enterprise Solution Architecture in Vodacom
• Investigate and research on Enterprise product and solution architecture principles in-line with industry best practices.
• Maintain sound relationships with technology partners within the Network and Information Technology groups, suppliers and internal customers.
• Provide technical co-ordination of projects and become a central design authority for new initiatives. Furthermore ensuring that the initiative is rated as per Architecture Relevancy Index (ARIX). For initiatives rated L4 and higher to work with the design authority towards the architecture road-map.
• Provide technical input to test-cases and be involved in driving projects to successful completion/implementation.
• Provides guidance and inputs during the product testing phase
• Perform necessary dimensioning of the end to end solution as per individual domain areas involved in the design
• Interface and interact with system owners , vendors and partners to obtain end to end technical impact and design
• Guide business on possible products technical feasibilities during concept phase
• To help execute the Enterprise strategy for the South African market.
• To manage the technical assessment of the Enterprise pipeline in Vodacom
• To be the technical expert for Enterprise solutions for EBU markets
• Professionally present Safaricom Enterprise solutions, negotiate with solution partners regarding the viable way to provide a holistic Enterprise product solution that fulfil business needs
• Interact with the internal Safaricom technical domains or departments to define for Enterprise solutions including technical assessments, design , and support of Enterprise solution

Job Requirements

Qualifications 

• 3year completed Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or Information Technology
• 5-8 years’ experience in a telecommunications environment (Fixed Line and Mobile services preferable)
• At least 5 years’ experience in a Solution Engineer, Solution Design or architecture role
• 2-3 years’ Project management experience
• At least 5 years’ experience across agile and scrum environment
• At least 2 years of architect experience in developing and delivering complex Micro-services solutions across multiple technologies and cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, etc.

How to Apply

If you feel that you are up to the challenge and possess the necessary qualification and experience, kindly proceed to update your candidate profile on CLICK HERE