Senior Manager - Data Architect.Group Strategy and Transformation

MTN; Roodepoort; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading telecommunications company in Gauteng is seeking a Senior Manager - Data Architect for the Group Strategy and Transformation team. The role requires a Bachelor's degree and at least 6 years of experience in data architecture and cloud environments. Key responsibilities include designing scalable architectures and ensuring compliance with governance standards. Competitive salary and benefits are offered.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 6 years in data architecture or data engineering.
• Proven experience with cloud-native data ecosystems.
• Familiarity with compliance and data governance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement data architectures within cloud environments.
• Support solution delivery and consulting engagements.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure architectural consistency.

Skills

Data architecture

Cloud architecture

Data engineering

Integration design

API knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Additional certifications in cloud architecture

Tools

Azure Data Lake

GCP BigQuery

Apache Iceberg

Delta Lake

Job description

Job title : Senior Manager - Data Architect.Group Strategy and Transformation

Job Location : Gauteng, Roodepoort Deadline : August 08, 2025 Quick Recommended Links

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Qualifications

Education :

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or related technical field (mandatory)

Additional certifications in cloud architecture (e.g. Azure, GCP), data engineering, TOGAF, or enterprise architecture frameworks are highly advantageous.

Experience :

6+ years in data architecture, data engineering, or integration design roles with focus of building scalable, secure, and interoperable environments.

Proven experience designing and implementing architectures within cloud-native data ecosystems (e.g. Azure Data Lake, GCP BigQuery, hybrid platforms).

Familiarity with cloud data environments, clean rooms, and open data standards. (e.g. Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, OpenMetadata)

Experience supporting client-facing solution delivery or consulting engagements, particularly involving geospatial data, telco signals, or behavioral analytics.

Comfortable working across multinational environments and federated organisational models, with demonstrated ability to align technical designs to compliance, security, and data governance requirements.

Competencies :

Architecture Documentation – Produces clear, structured technical artefacts, including diagrams, flowcharts, and design blueprints, that support solution deployment and consulting reuse across MTN and client environments.

Technical Enablement – Supports adoption and onboarding for architecture components and creates reusable guides and onboarding materials that align with DataCo’s DDO and product implementation frameworks.

Compliance Awareness – Ensures architectural solutions consider privacy and access controls, including lineage and regulatory compliance while ensuring alignment with MTN’s Responsible AI and security standards.

Integration Knowledge – Understands APIs, ETL patterns, and system interoperability needs, and can address integration challenges across cloud, on-prem, and third-party systems, enabling seamless data flows across the DataCo ecosystems

Support Coordination – Collaborates effectively across product, delivery, security, cloud engineering, and analytics teams to ensure end-to-end architectural consistency and operational scalability

Key Deliverables : Internal :

Maintain and update a suite of architecture templates, data flow diagrams, and integration reference models aligned to DataCo’s blueprint and scalable across OpCos.

PoV support with technical documentation and compliance checklists including the design validation notes to support POC’s and POV’s initiatives and internal solution reviews

Weekly adoption updates and tracking reports as per DataCo / Group-endorsed tools, standards, and reference architecture components across the group.

External :

Develop and distribute technical enablement packs and implementation guides to support DataCo rollout of architecture components, data pipelines, and governance tooling.

Provide clear, shareable reference architecture documents and integration standards to support third-party partners, cloud providers, and consulting collaborators involved in DataCo deployments.

Apply Before 08 / 06 / 2025

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