Platform Architect Manager at Accenture Technology Solutions

About the position

Platform Architect
Are you ready to be part of a transformational journey that will reshape the digital landscape of Africa? A leading Pan-African telecommunications company is launching a groundbreaking Software Engineering Centre of Excellence (COE); dedicated to building future-focused digital products designed to empower and revolutionize the continent. This is your opportunity to join an innovative team at the forefront of technological advancement, as we accelerate towards a brighter, more connected future for Africa.

Role Summary
Work with business stakeholders, and solution and system architects to drive holistic technology implementation. Incorporate continuous feedback, fosters design and engineering practices, and drive collaboration around a common vision across domains (functional, application, data, infrastructure)

Responsibilities

• Analysis of the architecture and specifications of the solution.
• Definition of the integration strategy and the definition of the incremental construction roadmap of the solution
• Management of the integration team in Agile mode (Scrum) to ensure the proper execution with the team of all integration work
• Capitalization of good practices and participation in progress actions

Qualification

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science, IT engineering, or a related field.

Skills and Experience:

• 7 - 10 relevant experience years developing technologies
• Experience in systems engineering
• Prior knowledge of the ICT ecosystem
• A first approach to system modelling.
• A technological curiosity and a good team spirit to work with an international team.
• Experience in solution architecture
• Basic knowledge of security (PKI, certificate, firewall, ...) and IT infrastructure: OS (Windows, Linux, Unix), virtualized environments, network, high availability, cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure), Docker, Kubernetes
• Good knowledge of Java software development, J2EE, JBOSS application servers, C++, and databases: Oracle Solutions, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
• Ability to interface with the client management and technical teams and maintain a good professional relationships.

Desired Skills:

• Platform architect
• ICT
• infrastructure
• DevOps
• Java