About the position
Mission/ Core purpose of the Job:
The purpose of the Senior Manager Digital Security Architect is to govern and scale secure-by-design digital platforms, ensuring security across the company’s digital channels, API ecosystems, digital identity layers, customer-facing services, and cloud-native digital experiences.
The role ensures that the company’s platform economy, developer ecosystems, digital onboarding, API management and monetisation, and omni-channel digital services are secure, trusted, and ready for scalable growth across all markets. The role is responsible to govern secure platform design, engineering, API security, developer ecosystem security, and digital platform enablement. Digital service architecture review and solution designs are key deliverables in order to assure “security by design” and “security by default”
Context Global influences, environmental / industry demands, organisational mission
The company’s strategy toward 2030, focuses on transitioning from a traditional telecom company into a platform-based technology business. The "Beyond 2025" strategy aims to establish the company as a holding company managing three core platforms—Connectivity, Fintech, and Digital Infrastructure—with a strong emphasis on sustainability, AI, and Pan-African growth
Architecture design and the end-to-end security of the platforms and services are key to guarantee the success of the company’s digital transformation. The role must therefore ensure the successful delivery in context of
Values (Their culture):
Our client is a purpose and value-led organization. At the company, they believe that understanding their people’s needs and aspirations is key to creating experiences that delight you at work, every day. They company is committed to fostering an environment where every member of their family is heard, understood and empowered to live an inspired life.
The companies’ values keep them grounded and moving in the right direction. Most importantly, they keep us honest. It is not something they claim to be. It is in their DNA.
As an organisation, they consider it their mission to create an exciting and rewarding place to work, where the company’s people can be themselves, thrive in positivity and ignite their full potential. A workplace that boosts creativity and innovation, improves productivity, and ultimately drives meaningful results. A workplace that is built on relationships and achieving a purpose that is bigger than them.
Their commitments go beyond an organisational promise. It is in their leadership and managerial ethos to meaningfully partner with their employees, customers and stakeholders with a vision to realise their shared goals.
The company
Key Performance Areas: Core, essential responsibilities / outputs of the position (KPA's)
The Senior Manager Digital Security Architect is responsible for the following Key Performance Areas:
Digital Platform & API Security Governance:
Digital Identity, Privacy & Trust Engineering:
API Marketplace & Developer Ecosystem Security:
Cloud-Native Digital Architecture Security:
Pan-African Digital Security Blueprinting:
Job Requirements (Education, Experience and Competencies):
Minimum Qualifications:
Experience:
Certifications (preferred):
Technical Competencies:
Behavioural competencies:
Other:
Collaboration (Formal and Informal Relationships):
Responsibility towards:
Mission/ Core purpose of the Job:
The purpose of the Senior Manager Digital Security Architect is to govern and scale secure-by-design digital platforms, ensuring security across the company’s digital channels, API ecosystems, digital identity layers, customer-facing services, and cloud-native digital experiences.
The role ensures that the company’s platform economy, developer ecosystems, digital onboarding, API management and monetisation, and omni-channel digital services are secure, trusted, and ready for scalable growth across all markets. The role is responsible to govern secure platform design, engineering, API security, developer ecosystem security, and digital platform enablement. Digital service architecture review and solution designs are key deliverables in order to assure “security by design” and “security by default”
Context Global influences, environmental / industry demands, organisational mission
The company’s strategy toward 2030, focuses on transitioning from a traditional telecom company into a platform-based technology business. The "Beyond 2025" strategy aims to establish the company as a holding company managing three core platforms—Connectivity, Fintech, and Digital Infrastructure—with a strong emphasis on sustainability, AI, and Pan-African growth
Architecture design and the end-to-end security of the platforms and services are key to guarantee the success of the company’s digital transformation. The role must therefore ensure the successful delivery in context of
Values (Their culture):
Our client is a purpose and value-led organization. At the company, they believe that understanding their people’s needs and aspirations is key to creating experiences that delight you at work, every day. They company is committed to fostering an environment where every member of their family is heard, understood and empowered to live an inspired life.
The companies’ values keep them grounded and moving in the right direction. Most importantly, they keep us honest. It is not something they claim to be. It is in their DNA.
As an organisation, they consider it their mission to create an exciting and rewarding place to work, where the company’s people can be themselves, thrive in positivity and ignite their full potential. A workplace that boosts creativity and innovation, improves productivity, and ultimately drives meaningful results. A workplace that is built on relationships and achieving a purpose that is bigger than them.
Their commitments go beyond an organisational promise. It is in their leadership and managerial ethos to meaningfully partner with their employees, customers and stakeholders with a vision to realise their shared goals.
The company
Key Performance Areas: Core, essential responsibilities / outputs of the position (KPA's)
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