Platform Architect (VOIS)
Role Purpose:
The E2E Platforms Architect role in the Platforms Technology team contributes to the definition of the strategy and reference architecture for digital, integration and cloud computing. This role is critical in providing technical leadership in support of Vodafone’s strategic initiatives on digital, cloud and integration platforms, with a focus on the architecting of resilient, available platforms that enable the leverage of cloud native benefits such as scalability and automation for new and existing workloads.
This role will help deliver and communicate the platforms strategy and roadmap for the organisation that is understood and supported and provides clear, achievable principles and direction for the engineering, delivery, and technology teams to follow.
The E2E Platforms Architect is a senior technical subject matter expert and design authority for Digital, Cloud and Integration services, tooling and platforms. They will peer with Product, Platform, Engineering and Infrastructure teams to deliver sustainable, high-performance platforms, services and solutions to provide the best possible experience for our consumers.
Key accountabilities and decision ownership:
• Ensure the Platforms modernisation approach is appropriately aligned to the Digital, Cloud and Integration strategy and the global technology standards, policies and guidelines
• Development of innovative, effective platform components ensuring consistency of approach between similar vendor technologies
• Be the trusted advisor to the wider organization for digital, cloud, integration end-to-end architecture, including Azure, AWS, GCP and future providers, networking, provisioning, and management
• Work with engineering teams to define and develop a library of deployable and documented design patterns, blueprints and templates, based on the Vodafone application portfolio, as a basis for the repeated deployment of services to the cloud
• Advocate the digital, cloud and integration architecture vision from a strategic perspective, including internal and external platforms, tools, and systems across stakeholder and consumer communities alongside the facilitation and assurance of technical decisions
Core competencies, knowledge and experience:
• Proven experience in communicating complex technical strategy up to C-Level leadership
• Knowledge of:
- Cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability) with experience with AWS, GCP and Hybrid implementations
- Front-end component-based architecture, micro-frontends, content management and feature flagging
• Proven experience in microservice architectures running on Kubernetes and containers
• Ability to take ownership of problems, ask relevant questions, be proactive, take initiative, and drive for improvements and changes in approach
• Ability for driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
Must have technical / professional qualifications:
• Public Cloud Computing Platform & Services documented with one or more certifications or strong on the job experience in AWS, GCP and Azure
• CI/CD & DevOps practices, configuring tools “as-code”;
• Infrastructure and Platform components (network, load balancers, VMs, Kubernetes) and Microservice architectures;
• Cloud Security, IAM, Cloud Authentication;
• SAFe Agile methods including use of associated collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence etc)
• Front-end skills such as React framework, UI/UX design, responsive design principles
• Knowledge of front-end architecture patterns like component-based architecture, micro-frontends, and headless CMS integration
• TM Forum Open APIs, Open Digital Architecture, Swagger
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