DGM_Solution Architect
Who we are
As the largest shared services organisation in the global telco industry with 30,000 FTE, our portfolio of next-generation solutions and services are designed in partnership with customers across Vodafone Group, local markets, and partner markets to simplify and drive growth. With our strategic partner Accenture, we work alongside our Vodafone customers, other Telco and tech companies to drive transformation, meet the challenges of our industry and ensure we stay relevant and resilient. This partnership is a unique, industry-first model which brings together the best of in-house and 3rd party capability.
We work with customers across 28 countries from 10 VOIS locations: Albania, Egypt, Hungary, India, Romania, Spain, Turkey, UK, Germany, Ireland, and with a network of teams in Czech Republic, Italy, Greece, and Portugal.
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About this Role
What you will do
- Provide architectural governance across multiple digital products, platforms, and customer-facing channels.
- Define and maintain architecture principles, standards, patterns, and delivery guardrails.
- Ensure alignment of architecture decisions with business strategy, technology roadmap, and security requirements.
- Review and approve solution designs, integration approaches, and technology selections.
- Take ownership of architecture across the full digital technology stack, including web, mobile, microservices, APIs, BSS/OSS systems, payment integrations, identity and access management, and network integrations.
- Drive the evolution of web architecture including microfrontends, server-side rendering, design systems, reuse strategies, and CMS.
- Ensure solutions meet requirements for scalability, resilience, security, and operational supportability.
- Lead the transition from vendor-led to organisation-led architectural ownership.
- Drive AI adoption across engineering processes and digital capabilities.
- Identify opportunities to apply AI for productivity, automation, quality enhancement, and improved customer experience.
- Guide teams on responsible and practical AI usage across delivery lifecycles.
Who you are
- Extensive experience (18+ years overall, including 10+ years in architectural roles such as Enterprise Architect, Principal Architect, or similar).
- Strong full-stack architecture experience covering microfrontends (e.g., React, Next.js), mobile platforms (e.g., React Native), microservices, APIs, and cloud-native solutions (AWS/Azure/GCP).
- Proven expertise in telecom or digital service platforms including BSS/OSS, identity, payments, fulfilment, and network integrations.
- Experience designing for consumer, business, and partner channels.
- Strong understanding of API-first design, event-driven architecture, integration patterns, and cloud-native systems.
- Knowledge of security, privacy, scalability, performance, resilience, and observability practices.
- Ability to govern enterprise architecture, manage risks in complex vendor environments, and balance strategic direction with delivery execution.
- Comfortable working with a wide range of stakeholders, including business leaders, product teams, engineers, and external partners.
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