Specialist - Platform Architect.MTN Software Solutions

• Deliver well-documented, modular architecture designs that support current and future digital solutions across the enterprise.
• Ensure Platform Alignment with Enterprise Standards
• Align platform architecture with enterprise architecture principles, technology governance, and security frameworks.
• Design and recommend solutions that facilitate seamless interoperability between systems, applications, and services.
• Provide architectural input and oversight to software engineering, DevOps, and infrastructure teams to ensure consistency and reuse.
• Integrate performance tuning, scalability, and secure-by-design practices into all architectural designs.
• Monitor technology trends and propose enhancements that future-proof the platform and support innovation.

• Define and enforce code-level architecture standards and best practices across frontend and backend teams.
• Create and maintain reference implementations, starter kits, shared frameworks, and reusable templates for engineers.
• Own coding guidelines: structure, naming, error handling, testing strategy, dependency management, and CI quality gates.
• Review codebases to ensure alignment with architecture principles, simplicity, and maintainability.
• Drive consistent engineering practices (SOLID, clean architecture, design patterns, secure coding).
• Establish organization-wide standards for frontend and backend tooling (linting, formatting, testing, build pipelines).
• Coach and mentor junior engineers; run clinics, brown-bags, and code walkthroughs.
• Partner with platform architects to translate high-level architecture into practical coding patterns.
• Identify refactoring opportunities and lead technical improvement initiatives to reduce complexity and defects.
• Promote a culture of engineering excellence, continuous learning, and shared ownership of quality.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Relevant certifications :TOGAF or equivalent enterprise architecture 
• Postgraduate qualification in Architecture, Systems Design, or Cloud Computing. (Advantageous)

Experience:

• Experience: Minimum of 2-5 years’ experience in software/platform architecture, systems design, or enterprise technology environments

Skills :

• Strong hands-on capability in frontend tech (e.g., React/React Native, TypeScript, state management, performance).
• Strong hands-on capability in backend tech (e.g., Node.js/TypeScript, APIs, microservices patterns, databases).
• Excellence in clean code, testing (unit/integration/contract), and CI/CD quality automation.
• Ability to simplify complex engineering topics into teachable, repeatable practices.
• Comfortable doing deep code reviews, pairing, and architectural troubleshooting.
• Collaborative and patient coaching style; high attention to detail and developer experience.