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
If you meet the requirements for above position, click on Apply button
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