Digital Solution Architect
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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
- Provide technical architecture and application guidance when ideating during the innovation sprints with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders.
- Provision of architecture and design processes and operating model, especially in the context of the Vodafone Agile Transformation
- Engaging with sprint activities and to establish opportunities to innovate new projects in the form of PoC/ MVPs to establish and align on incubation phase to support solution design activities.
- Producing high quality solution architecture deliverables, including Impact Assessments and Solution Design documents (HLDs)
- Quality assurance and review of deliverables produced by the delivery and engineering teams (including 3rd parties)
- Design support and consultancy for complex projects
- Supporting projects through build and test activities where end to end design issues and changes may arise
- Risk and issue identification and reporting to the sprint project management and IoT Solution Architecture Manager
- Participation in the Architecture Governance processes including the Architecture Review Board
- Contribute to Design Patterns and evangelise their use across digital transformation projects
- Accountable for a delivering high quality architecture and design deliverables including:Impact Assessments,High Level Designs,Blueprints, Solution Intents, Options Papers
- Design decision ownership including making decisions which could have material impact on project business cases.
- Digital solution architect working closely with customers and partners.
- Virtually lead and advise back-end designers for all products developed within the Co-Creation sprint.
- Review customer requirements and integrate all application requirements, including functional, security, integration, performance, quality, and operations requirements. The day-to-day work of the web developer highly depends on constantly evolving internet innovations.
- Review UX designs from the Co-Creation sprints and translate them into the technical and digital architecture requirements.
- Provide input into final decisions regarding hardware, network products, system software and security.
Who you are
- Good experience in designing complex, distributed, secure and scalable architecture solutions within complex organisations (100+ applications), preferably in the Telecommunications and/or B2B market
- Highly professional, well presented, authoritative and credible.
- Key asset in expanding our digital services by providing strategic advice, technology leadership and if required implementation services to the customer.
- Contribute significantly for expanding successful digital capability and should be capable of driving the most complex and multi-disciplinary product development projects for our customers.
- Experience across the whole software delivery cycle from project initiation to production deployment, within Agile environments
- Strong knowledge of architecture best practices and design patterns, including:
- Sound experience working with a broad range of architectural patterns (e.g. SOA, microservices, COTS)
- In-depth knowledge of modern web and cloud architecture
- In depth knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure and OpenStack)
- Understanding of DevOps culture, practices and tools
Not a perfect fit?
Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about empowering people and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to still apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another opportunity.
What's in it for you
- Yearly bonus: 10%
- Annual leave: 28 days + bank holidays + the opportunity to buy/sell/carry over 5 days/year
- Charity days: 5 days/year
- Maternity leave: 52 weeks: the first 13 weeks are fully paid, followed by 26 weeks of half pay
- Private pension: You can contribute up to 5% of your basic pay with 2:1 matching from Vodafone up to 10%.
- Access to: private medical, private dental, free health assessments, share save scheme
- Additional discounts: Vodafone retail, gym, cinema, cycle to work, season ticket loan
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.
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Together we can.