Solution Architect

Yum! Brands
Johannesburg
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 7-10 yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Leadership","Stakeholder management","Collaboration","Communication"]

Own solution design and architecture standards that power KFC Africa’s digital ecosystem. Translate the digital roadmap into reference architectures, patterns, and design reviews to help squads and vendors deliver secure, reliable, scalable, cost-effective solutions across channels and back-end platforms. Lead governance on security, privacy, NFRs, data contracts, event schemas, and cost/reliability guardrails, while running proofs of concept and promoting modern platform engineering practices.

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Solution Architect

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Job Summary

Own solution design and architecture standards that power KFC Africa’s digital ecosystem. Translate the digital roadmap into reference architectures, patterns, and design reviews to help squads and vendors deliver secure, reliable, scalable, cost-effective solutions across channels and back-end platforms. Lead governance on security, privacy, NFRs, data contracts, event schemas, and cost/reliability guardrails, while running proofs of concept and promoting modern platform engineering practices.
Location: Johannesburg
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Create reference architectures, patterns, and initiative artefacts (context/container diagrams, sequence and deployment diagrams, NFR checklists, data contracts) for major digital journeys and services.
  • •Set and govern standards for security, privacy, availability, performance, accessibility, observability, and coding/integration practices, including go/no-go criteria and waivers.
  • •Design the data layer: event schemas, taxonomy, identity/consent standards, customer data platform integrations, and reverse ETL patterns in partnership with insights and CRM teams.
  • •Ensure reliability, scalability, and observability by defining service-level objectives, error budgets, logging/metrics/tracing, incident correlation, and resilient degradation/failover.
  • •Evaluate technologies and vendors via RFIs, proofs of concept, and roadmap-aligned recommendations; run design workshops and translate roadmap plans into standards-driven phased cutovers.

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
  • •7–10+ years in solution/enterprise/application architecture for consumer digital or e-commerce, with multi-market experience preferred.
  • •Strong grounding in cloud architectures (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud), networking, security, and integration patterns (REST/gRPC, event streaming, messaging).
  • •Demonstrated leadership on non-functional requirements including security, privacy, performance, availability, and observability, with reliability-focused design.
  • •Experience with data contracts, event schemas, identity/consent, analytics, and customer data platform activation; ability to produce architecture artefacts and guide vendors.
Experience:7-10 yearsConsumer digitalE-commerce
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:LeadershipStakeholder managementCollaborationCommunication
Tech Stack:Amazon Web Services (AWS)Microsoft AzureGoogle CloudRESTGRPCEvent streamingMessagingEncryptionTokenizationObservabilityLoggingMetricsTracingPolicy-as-codeInfrastructure-as-codeFeature flagsCanary releasesBlue-green deployments

Company Brief

Yum! Brands
Yum! Brands is a global quick-service restaurant company that develops, franchises and operates KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and Habit Burger & Grill, serving tens of thousands of restaurants across more than 150 countries with digital and franchise-led growth strategies.
Industry: Restaurants & Food Service
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Louisville, United States
Founded: 1997
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