Solution Designer

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At Vodafone, we’re not just shaping the future of connectivity for our customers – we’re shaping the future for everyone who joins our team. When you work with us, you’re part of a global mission to connect people, solve complex challenges, and create a sustainable and more inclusive world. If you want to grow your career whilst finding the perfect balance between work and life, Vodafone offers the opportunities to help you belong and make a real impact.

What you’ll do

• Understand all end-to-end requirements from stakeholders and deliver the most suitable solution aligned with expected speed, quality, and cost.
• Lead feasibility and technical design activities to provide company-wide technical solutions, ensuring effective process management and adherence to agreed budgets.
• As a squad member, take responsibility for all activities that enable the team to achieve sprint goals and KPIs.
• Support ideation and scoping processes by contributing to scoring, feasibility assessment, and complexity evaluation.
• Estimate the size and effort of backlog items.
• Provide technical and financial (CAPEX) insights, including effort estimations, constraints, dependencies, risks, and alternative solutions.
• Produce detailed functional and technical analyses for backlog items, ensuring alignment with solution designers in other squads and consistency on integration points.
• Deliver end-to-end solutions in line with the agreed scope, Group guidelines, and TR IT target architecture and strategy.
• Collaborate with Operations and Infrastructure teams to ensure proper system dimensioning based on business traffic forecasts.
• Support test case preparation and review testing scenarios.
• Work closely with developers on LLD preparation and delivery activities.
• Provide design support for defects and issues raised by stakeholders within the responsible domain.
• Execute RFP/RFQ/RFI processes when required and assess vendor technical capabilities to identify suitable products and services.
• Collaborate with the solution architect to maintain product roadmaps and target architecture.
• Review and approve vendor design documents and follow up on vendor development activities.
• When assigned as Lead Solution Designer, oversee end-to-end design activities and ensure the delivery meets expected quality standards.
• Manage technical vendor relationships in accordance with contractual responsibilities.
• Ensure that delivery standards, methodologies, processes, and best practices are applied to drive efficiency.
• Keep up to date with emerging technologies to support continuous improvement in team effectiveness.
• Contribute to the development of long-term strategic goals.
• Comply with VFTR information security policies, standards, and procedures.

Who you are

•    Bachelor's degree from Computer Engineering, Information Systems Engineering, Mathematics Engineering and other related departments.
•    5+ years of software analysis/design/development/engineering experience.
•    Broad knowledge of software technology and development processes, particularly Scrum, TDD or BDD, disciplined agile delivery and lean development.
•    High level knowledge of Cloud Technologies(Openshift is plus) and MicroService architecture
•    Experiences on any unit testing tool
•    Knowledge of SQL, PL/SQL and No-SQL open source databases like Mongo etc. 
•    Customer focused, dependable solution oriented, hardworking, team focused
•    Ability to a systematic, disciplined and analytical approach to problem solving
•    Result oriented, strongly motivated leader with excellent interpersonal communication and negotiation skills
•    Eagerness for quality and continuous improvement of processes
•    Familiar with working in an international environment
•    Eagerness for quality and continuous improvement of processes
•    Strong Presentation skills
•    Ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines
•    Very good level of English proficiency
Preferred Qualifications:
•    Hands-on expertise with CRM Contracting tools&systems
•    Familiarity with Sales Force Automation, Loyality systems
•    Ability to design and optimize in house platforms
•    Experience with real-time data processing and performance monitoring in high-traffic environments
•    Have development background and experiences

Who we are

We are a leading international Telco, serving millions of customers. At Vodafone, we believe that connectivity is a force for good. If we use it for the things that really matter, it can improve people's lives and the world around us. Through our technology we empower people, connecting everyone regardless of who they are or where they live and we protect the planet, whilst helping our customers do the same.

Belonging at Vodafone isn't a concept; it's lived, breathed, and cultivated through everything we do. You'll be part of a global and diverse community, with many different minds, abilities, backgrounds and cultures. ;We're committed to increase diversity, ensure equal representation, and make Vodafone a place everyone feels safe, valued and included.

If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, please refer to https://careers.vodafone.com/application-adjustments/ for guidance.

Together we can.