Solutions Architect (Advertising & Media)

Recruiter:

Solicited

Job Ref:

JHB000135/Zoe

Date posted:

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Location:

Capetown, South Africa

Salary:

700 000

JOB SUMMARY:
Join one of Africa's innovative & leading retail Architect IT teams that operate in an Agile environment leading in the IT industry. The successful candidate will have exposure to advertising technologies and marketing technologies.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Responsibilities:

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.
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.
Analyze business requirements and create related digital media & advertising architectures and designs for the baseline (“as is”) and target (“to be”) solution architectures.
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.
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

Requirements:

Degree in Information Systems / B Sc Computer Science (or similar)
TOGAF certified
Architecture and solution design (UML, OO, SOA, etc.)
S/W frameworks and methodologies (Agile, TOGAF, etc.)
Solid track record in successful delivery of scalable solution architectures
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and logical skills
Excellent team-working, inter-personal skills
Develop of proposals and excellent written communication & presentation skills
Excellent organisation and facilitation skills
Strong conflict management skills
Commercial & business understanding of retail industry
Knowledge and experience in the design and use of (multi-dimensional) Data Warehouses, and the use of ETL software to provide these with information
7-10 years working experience within the IT industry.
Experience with Campaign Management, Data Management Platforms, Demand Side Platforms, and Customer Data Platforms.
Retail industry experience with an understanding of retail business processes.
Experience in architecting Advertising Technology programs with understanding of the Marketing Technology world in the context of personalisation - preferably Google platform (Big Query, SA360, DV360, Google Campaign)
Experience with MDM (Master Data Management) and Big Data
Proficiency in marketing automation systems (SAP Marketing Cloud, Google DoubleClick/DV360, SA360 and GA) and integrating those systems with other technologies
Worked on projects across multiple applications, SAP and non-SAP
Experience with all aspects of IT projects from business analysis, architectures, system analysis and design through development, testing, implementation, and production support (SDLC).
Excellent design and architecture skills and proven track record delivering well designed complex enterprise class systems.
Excellent technical development and be able to mentor others to improve their design and development skills.
Identification and formulation of solution architecture and solution alternatives and their assessment.
Demonstrated expertise in a variety of application development methodologies and practices

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