Solutions Architect and Engineering Manager - Telecel Cash

Role Purpose

Lead the architecture, design, development, integration, and delivery of Telecel Cash technology solutions while managing the software engineering team to ensure secure, scalable, highly available, and high-performing platforms.

The role is accountable for translating business requirements into robust technical solutions, establishing engineering best practices, ensuring successful delivery of projects through production go-live, and continuously improving the engineering capability of the Telecel Cash technology organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the architecture for Telecel Cash platforms, ensuring secure, scalable, resilient, and high-performing solutions aligned with enterprise standards.
• Develop architecture standards, review solution designs, and evaluate emerging technologies to support business objectives.
• Lead and manage software engineering teams, establishing engineering standards, development best practices, code quality, and technical excellence while mentoring and developing team members.
• Oversee the end-to-end delivery of technology solutions from design through production go-live, including systems integration with banks, payment partners, merchants, and third-party platforms to ensure successful, high-quality implementations.
• Establish architecture governance, ensure compliance with security and regulatory standards, drive DevSecOps and CI/CD practices, manage technical debt, and continuously improve engineering processes and platform performance.
• Provide technical leadership for major production incidents, oversee root cause analysis and corrective actions, and work with Operations teams to improve platform availability, reliability, and service performance.
• Build strong relationships with business stakeholders, vendors, and technology partners, providing technical leadership throughout project life cycles while managing, coaching, and developing high-performing engineering teams.

Must have Technical / Professional Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or related discipline.
• 5–8 years of software engineering experience.
• Minimum 2–3 years leading software engineering teams.
• Proven experience designing enterprise-scale payment or fin-tech solutions.
• Strong knowledge of software architecture patterns and distributed systems.
• Experience with APIs, microservices, cloud platforms, and integration technologies.
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps, CI/CD, containerization, and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience managing production releases and complex system integrations.
• Knowledge of mobile money, digital payments, financial services, or telecommunications.
• Excellent leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.