Huawei Cloud Architect, Enterprise Architecture, Technology, Personal & Private Banking
Standard Bank
Johannesburg, GP, South Africa
Salary not specified - Full-time
Job Description
About the Role
The Huawei Cloud & Technology Architect will provide architectural leadership for Huawei Cloud and related Huawei technologies across Standard Bank Group. The role is responsible for defining, governing, and evolving Huawei Cloud platform capabilities, standards, and adoption across the organisation. This includes the development of cloud architecture standards, target-state roadmaps, reference architectures, platform blueprints, and governance frameworks that enable secure, scalable, resilient, and compliant cloud services.
Responsibilities
- Bachelor's Degree
- Information Technology
- Computer Science
- Information Systems
- Engineering or related discipline
Requirements
- 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.
- Hands-on experience designing and implementing solutions on Huawei Cloud and/or related Huawei technologies.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Articulating Information
- Challenging Ideas
- Convincing People
- Developing Expertise
- Empowering Individuals
- Exploring Possibilities
- Interpreting Data
- Producing Output
- Providing Insights
- Pursuing Goals
- Seizing Opportunities
- Team Working
- Agile Concepts
- Business Analysis Environments and Perspectives
- Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning
- Internal & External IT Environment
- IT Applications
- IT Business Analysis/ Feature Analysis
- Systems Design
- Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities
- plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.
Preferred Qualifications
- 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
- 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.
