Huawei Cloud Architect, Enterprise Architecture, Technology, Personal & Private Banking

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**Overview** This role is for a Huawei Cloud Architect within Standard Bank Group, specifically in the Enterprise Architecture, Technology, Personal & Private Banking division. The position's primary focus is to provide architectural leadership for Huawei Cloud and related Huawei technologies across the group, taking responsibility for defining, governing, and evolving the Huawei Cloud platform's capabilities, standards, and adoption within the organisation. **What you will do** Key responsibilities include: * Providing architectural leadership for Huawei Cloud and related Huawei technologies across Standard Bank Group. * Defining, governing, and evolving Huawei Cloud platform capabilities, standards, and adoption across the organisation. * Developing cloud architecture standards, target-state roadmaps, reference architectures, platform blueprints, and governance frameworks to enable secure, scalable, resilient, and compliant cloud services. * Owning, designing, governing, and continuously evolving the Huawei Cloud Landing Zone, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles, security requirements, regulatory obligations, and strategic business objectives. * Leading the establishment and adoption of cloud foundations, landing zones, operating models, platform guardrails, and cloud-native architecture practices across the Group. * Providing architecture leadership and governance across strategic technology initiatives. * Driving the evolution of Huawei Cloud capabilities and related Huawei technologies. * Defining standards that enable consistent cloud adoption at scale. * Working closely with Architecture, Infrastructure, Security, Engineering, Data, Risk, and Technology teams to ensure Huawei Cloud services are implemented in a secure, well-governed, and sustainable manner, supporting innovation, operational efficiency, and long-term business growth. **Requirements (from the original advert)** * **Type of Qualification:** Bachelor's Degree * **Field of Study:** Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related discipline. * **Preferred Certifications:** * Huawei Certified ICT Expert HCIE – Cloud Computing * Huawei Certified ICT Professional HCIP – Cloud Computing * Huawei Certified ICT Associate HCIA – Cloud Computing * TOGAF Certification * Certified Cloud Security Professional CCSP * AWS, Azure, or GCP certifications (advantageous) * Kubernetes CKA/CKAD certification (advantageous) * **Experience Required:** * **Enterprise Architecture & Cloud Strategy (10+ years):** * Extensive experience in Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, or Cloud Architecture within large-scale enterprise environments. * Experience designing and governing enterprise-wide cloud transformation programmes. * Proven track record in banking, financial services, or highly regulated industries. * Strong understanding of architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman, or equivalent. * Experience defining and governing enterprise cloud platforms, landing zones, standards, guardrails, and operating models at scale. * Ability to align cloud platform roadmaps and governance practices across multiple business units and enterprise domains. * **Huawei Cloud Platform & Technology Architecture (5+ years):** * Hands-on experience designing and implementing solutions on Huawei Cloud and/or related Huawei technologies. * Huawei Cloud experience is preferred; however, strong AWS or Azure cloud architecture experience will also be considered where the candidate can demonstrate strong cloud platform, landing zone, and governance expertise. * Deep knowledge of Huawei Cloud services including: Elastic Cloud Server ECS, Virtual Private Cloud VPC, Cloud Container Engine CCE, Object Storage Service OBS, Relational Database Service RDS, Data Lake Insight DLI, Cloud Security and IAM services. * Experience establishing Huawei Cloud landing zones, governance frameworks, and operational models. * Strong understanding of Huawei Cloud platform architecture, cloud foundations, and enterprise-scale landing zone design. * Experience defining and governing cloud guardrails, security patterns, network architecture, identity management, workload onboarding standards, and platform operating models. * Experience developing Huawei Cloud platform roadmaps and evolving cloud capabilities in line with enterprise architecture and business requirements. * Understanding of Huawei technologies and their integration within enterprise ecosystems. * Knowledge of cloud migration methodologies and modernization approaches. * **Cloud Engineering and DevSecOps (5+ years):** * Experience implementing CI/CD and DevSecOps practices within large engineering organisations. * Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation or equivalent). * Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, and container orchestration platforms. * Experience integrating security, testing, and compliance automation into deployment pipelines. * **Technology Leadership (3–5 years):** * Experience leading architecture, engineering, or platform teams. * Ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive strategic technology decisions. * Experience establishing architecture governance, standards, and best practices. * Ability to mentor technical teams on Huawei Cloud, landing zone governance, cloud platform standards, and multi-cloud architecture practices. **Who should apply** This role is suited for a highly experienced cloud architect with a proven track record in Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, or Cloud Architecture within large-scale enterprise environments, particularly those in banking, financial services, or other highly regulated industries. The ideal candidate will possess a strong understanding of architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman) and significant hands-on experience with Huawei Cloud. Candidates with strong AWS or Azure cloud architecture experience are also encouraged to apply, provided they demonstrate robust expertise in cloud platform, governance, landing zone, and multi-cloud architecture. The successful candidate will be a trusted advisor capable of leading and influencing strategic technology decisions, mentoring technical teams, and driving the establishment and adoption of cloud foundations, landing zones, operating models, platform guardrails, and cloud-native architecture practices. They should exhibit behavioural competencies such as articulating information, challenging ideas, convincing people, developing expertise, empowering individuals, exploring possibilities, interpreting data, producing output, providing insights, pursuing goals, seizing opportunities, and team working. Additionally, they should possess technical competencies in Agile Concepts, Business Analysis Environments and Perspectives, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning, Internal & External IT Environment, IT Applications, IT Business Analysis/ Feature Analysis, and Systems Design. **Deadline** Not specified **Reference** Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/huawei-cloud-architect-enterprise-architecture-technology-personal-private-banking-standard-bank-group Source: myjobmag

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