Solution Architect: Digital Media & Advertising

SUMMARY:
Solution Architect - Digital Media & Advertising

POSITION INFO:

Datonomy has 20 years'' experience in data and digital solutions, we are perfectly placed to catapult you onto the career path of your dreams. Our projects cover the full spectrum of data; therefore we can offer you access to the most interesting, innovative, and ground-breaking work currently being done.

Our goal is to positively impact One Billion People by 2030 - and we can only achieve this if our clientsand our people collaborate on projects and solutions that will change the world.

Solution Architect - Digital Media & Advertising

As a recognized authority in Digital Media & Advertising solutions, covering data management platforms, demand side platforms, advertising exchange, paid- and social media etc., the solution architect strategically advises and shapes requirements for media solutions and creates high quality data, application and technology architectures in support of the business requirements and leads the realization of the design into the final solution implementation.

Deep subject matter knowledge of advertising technologies and marketing technologies, campaign management, master data and big data as applicable to the retail industry is essential.

Job Objective:

• Define and continuously improve the digital media & advertising architecture framework and solution architecture modelling standards.
• Define and create solution level digital media & advertising architecture models that are aligned with business blueprints, non-functional requirements, delivery constraints, data, application, and technology standards.
• Provide expert digital media & advertising guidance, ensure solution architectures and designs are in line with the digital media & advertising technology standards and conduct architecture and design reviews as part of the Architecture Review Committee.

Task Information:

• Define and continuously improve the digital media & advertising architecture framework and solution architecture modelling standards.
• Develop and maintain an understanding of the business strategy and changes to business priorities.
• Define a structured digital media & advertising architecture approach and methodology for capturing the key views of the enterprise.
• Architect the next-generation digital media & advertising framework developed on a group of core technologies.
• Align to the enterprise data reference architecture in support of the enterprise and regulatory information governance needs such as Information Security, Enterprise Information Management, POPI, PCI, etc.
• Identify, define and communicate standards, guidelines, formats, meta-models, policies, best practices, and governance practices for media architectures and designs.
• Ensure that the digital media & advertising architecture approach integrates into the methodologies and processes of the rest of the Enterprise Architecture team.
• Stay abreast of best practices and / or new developments in digital media & advertising and related disciplines and drive adoption as deemed appropriate.
• Define and create solution level digital media & advertising architecture models that are aligned with business blueprints, non-functional requirements, delivery constraints, data, application, and technology standards.
• Analyze business requirements and create related digital media & advertising architectures and designs for the baseline ("as is") and target ("to be") solution architectures.
• Define digital media & advertising architecture governance processes and quality compliance criteria.
• Perform quality assurance checks on digital media & advertising architectures and designs and enforce quality compliance criteria to set policies and standards.
• Perform quality checks on existing digital media & advertising architectures and designs to identify potential business risks areas and make re-engineering recommendations.
• Ensure digital media & advertising security conforms to Information Security Governance policies and standards.
• Provide expert digital media & advertising guidance, ensure solution architectures and designs are in line with the digital media & advertising technology standards and conduct architecture and design reviews as part of the Architecture Review Committee.
• Be clearly identified as the digital media & advertising technical lead and provide technical guidance and leadership in proposals, RFIs, RFPs, and BI project teams.
• Provide architectural oversight and guidance to development teams to ensure high-quality technical solution designs during the detailed design, build, test and deploy phases that conforms to architecture principles and standards.
• Mentor senior developers / designers / business analysts to become Solution Architects.
• Define and develop the overall digital media & advertising architecture landscape in partnership with the Domain Architect, Data Analytics team and other Solution Architects.
• Review proposed solution architectures ensuring alignment with architecture principles, the architecture framework, cloud reference architectures, set technology standards and identify critical gaps, and recommend improvements.
• Give guidance and advice to peers in respect to digital media & advertising solution designs ensuring the designs conform to industry bes

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