Principle Specialist Fulfilment Automation

2 weeks ago


Bellville, Western Cape, South Africa Vodafone Full time

Role Purpose:

The role is responsible to realise the ASOC Automation Strategy, with the focus on Fulfilment Automation. The position requires a self-driven, proactive individual with repeated practice enabling back-end and front-end automation to support digital transformation. Whilst building and owning the Fulfilment Automation strategy and architecture. The role is also responsible for ensuring value delivery through the squads within the tribe and others, as required.

Your responsibilities will include:

Exhibits Servant Leadership:

  • Support the teams' commitments without compromising on strategy execution
  • Coach people with powerful questions rather than using authority
  • Encourage and support the personal development of each individual and the development of teams
  • Be open and appreciate openness in others
  • Encourage crossteam collaboration

Aligns Execution with Strategy:

  • Collaborate with business stakeholders, identifying business requirements and aligning solutions with desired strategic business goals
  • Evolve articulated business requirements into the architectural runway
  • Build Automation Frameworks

Process improvement and coaching:

  • Evaluate current process and architecture landscape, suggesting improvements, prepare roadmaps and realize benefits
  • Continuously align and monitor key business and technical capabilities for ongoing improvement
  • Coach and in some case, mentor, team members on new concepts, development principles and software languages to increase flow efficiency
  • Provide guidance and drive implementation of OSS standards and leading practices


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Encourage Innovation:

  • Drive regular innovation and continuous exploration cycles
  • Able to gauge the complexity of a given problem and provide appropriate guidance
  • Leverages the current and future technology/practices to drive creativity and innovation
  • Ties new things gains fundamental insights, adapts and iterates with a pace that stretches the current boundaries

Continuous Improvement:

  • Solve known complex challenges and with mínimal guidance, investigate and contributes to new challenges/ situations.
  • Foster Communities of Practice, use of engineering and builtIn Quality practices and adhere to production deployment standards

Job Related Skills:

  • Team leadership
  • Coaching
  • Information Systems essentials
  • Problem solving
  • Analytical thinking
  • Service Management

Technical / Professional Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in the field of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent
  • At least 8 years' experience at senior technical level leading multifunctional OSS technical teams to deliver strategic objectives
  • Proven practical experience in implementing SAFe agile, technology architecture, system integration and technology services
  • Experience in delivering large scale OSS transformational projects from strategy to implementation
  • Excellent problem analysis and resolution skills to support work in reactive and proactive environments
  • Desirable
  • Design Thinking
  • Practical domain qualification or experience eTOM, TMForum, TOGAF, ITIL
  • Demonstrable working knowledge and competence using JIRA and Confluence
  • Other postgraduate Digital business qualifications will be advantageous

Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:

  • Strong understanding of / experience with software development lifecycles in complex, data driven initiatives is essential, especially within Agile framework i.e., SAFe and methodologies i.e. Scrum, Kanban, etc
  • Experience in leading Agile feature teams to deliver both new and continuous improvements
  • Solid experience in As-Is and To-Be Architecture planning, solution scoping and design in OSS domain
  • Passion for envisaging innovative solutions and taking ownership in driving solutions
  • Business and customer focus, and an appreciation of customer led design and user experience techniques
  • Ability to work proactively within a demanding environment, being a key contributor to a fastmoving product development process
  • Able to communicate and influence with tact and diplomacy
  • Able to understand and explain complex technical concepts to business stakeholders
  • Demonstrable numerical, analytical, and verbal skills, welldeveloped written and verbal communication skills in English
  • Experience working within a multinational team and serving customes from multiple countries would be of benefit
Closing date for Applications
:22 November 2023
The base location for this role is,
Techno Centre, Cape Town.
The Company s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.
Vodacom is committed to an organisational culture that recognises, appreciates and values diversity & inclusion.
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