Principal Software Architect - Johannesburg, South Africa - NTT Ltd.

NTT Ltd.
NTT Ltd.
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NTT is a leading global IT solutions and services organisation that brings together people, data and things to create a better and more sustainable future.

In today's 'iNTTerconnected' world, connections matter more now than ever.

By bringing together talented people, world-class technology partners and emerging innovators, we help our clients solve some of the world's most significant technological, business and societal challenges.


With people at the heart of our success, NTT is committed to attracting and growing the best talent and providing an environment where everyone feels they can belong and their contribution matters.


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The Principal Software Architect - API defines the strategy and platform architecture for our Digital Fabric supporting our platform delivered services.

This spans all our Managed and Technical Services including core platform elements


Our Digital Fabric concept is a core element of our Services Platform that encompasses our API ecosystem, canonical data models and connectivity spokes between the various components of our broader Services Platform landscape.

The Digital Fabric serves as an integration point between our numerous service delivery platforms and our client facing platform components - aggregating and brokering data exchange from many disparate service delivery platforms into a standardised canonical data model used for driving a unified client experience.

These platform components are key intellectual property that NTT develops to provide a unified client experience despite fronting a many distinct service delivery platforms as a result of acquisitions and consolidations within NTT.

As such it is a both a core and strategic component of the NTT Platform strategy.


The Principal Software Architect - API leverages elements of enterprise architecture and software architecture, focusing on these domains and how this supports the overall Platform Delivered Services architecture.


  • API Approach
  • Data Canonical Models
  • Integration Architecture
  • Reference architectures and associated platform requirements
  • Automation and orchestration approaches and platforms
  • Large scale data management and processing, including introduction of machine learning and AI.
  • Assessing acquisition and other R&D team solutions and how these can be leveraged in the Services Platform and overall unified Service Delivery and client experience


It is the responsibility of the Principal Software Architect - API to take this knowledge and ensure that the Business, Platform Development, Regions, other R&D teams and I&T are in alignment and in so doing they provide enterprise architecture consulting services to Business and Platform R&D to analyse and provide holistic strategies and solutions aligned with all aspects of enterprise architectural requirements and strategy.


What will make you a good fit for the role?

  • Application and integration architecture and patterns
  • Software architecture and patterns
  • Data and information architectures
  • Technical and infrastructure Architectures


Their objective is to operate across organizational and platform "silos" to drive common approaches and expose information assets and processes across the enterprise with a focus on the Client Journey and Experience as an integrated experience.

Their goal is to deliver this architecture efficiently, securely, and meeting the company's business needs.


The Principal Software Architect - API acts as the senior most expert in the NTT Limited organisation for this domain and they mentor and coach senior and less experienced enterprise architects.


This role is part of a cross functional Architecture team in the Digital Platform and Development Team, and reports to the VP of Platform Delivered Serviced Architecture.


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NTT is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer with a global culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to providing an environment free of unfair discrimination and harassment. We do not discriminate based on age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, veteran status, or other protected category


A career at NTT means:


  • Being part of a
    global pioneer where you gain exposure to our Fortune 500 clients and worldleading global technology partners and work with a network of over 40,000 smart and diverse colleagues across 57 countries, delivering services in over 200 countries.
  • Being at the forefront of
    cuttingedge technology backed with a 150year heritage of using technology for good. With 40% of the world's internet traffic running on our network and where Emoji were first invented, you can be proud of the group's many new 'firsts'.
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Making a difference - by doing meaningful work that helps to shape the future for our clients, and across industries and communities around the world.
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