IT Solution Architect

Vodafone

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Update day: 11-06-2024

Location: Newbury South East

Category: Telecommunications

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Role title: IT Solutions Architect – Portfolio Lead
Location: Newbury


Role purpose:

The Vodafone Business IT (VBIT) department in Group Technology caters to IT needs of Vodafone Group Enterprise that includes four lines of businesses (Vodafone Global Enterprise, Vodafone Carrier Services, Internet of Things, and Cloud & Security Services), Product Management, Sales, Global Operations, etc.. The function also builds re-usable assets that cater to the IT needs of Enterprise Business Units in a number of Vodafone Local Markets.

To support key strategic growth areas, the VBIT Architecture Team require a highly capable and experienced ‘IT Solution Architect – Portfolio Lead’ who will be responsible for the solutions architecture and design of integrated IT solutions that meet current and future needs of Vodafone Business Products & Solutions and the Enterprise Business Units in Local Markets. The role is the lead of a large portfolio of products, effectively acting as an authority for the design of IT solutions within the portfolio, guiding other solution architects working in the portfolio, and acting as SPOC for demand management & planning teams to ensure the portfolio is sufficiently resourced. The role will deliver a trusted IT Architecture & Solutions Design service to stakeholders throughout Vodafone to quality, level of detail, time and cost acceptance criteria, This role has holistic view across all IT design activities and as such will require engagement with senior stakeholders to define long range target architectures, align product designs with broader IT strategy, and influence decisions on IT investment taking into account cost and time constraints.
  • Demonstrable and recent track record of delivering an architecture and design service on projects that span multi-disciplinary areas across OSS, BSS and Enterprise domains in a large telecommunications IT environments. BSS
  • Sound overall knowledge of application capabilities, integration, data design methodologies and industry best practices
  • Ability to understand a wide range of disciplines in enough detail to communicate effectively with experts in those areas to enable delivery of E2E solutions designs, including, as examples, network designs, customer relationship management, order management / service provisioning, service assurance processes, billing and general enterprise management functions.
  • Management of complex and conflicting priorities with ease
  • Ability to balance short term vs. strategic solutions to cater to conflicting demands

Desired skills:

  • Working knowledge and/or experience of delivering solutions architectures and designs for enterprise level products or transformation programmes.
  • Working knowledge of TOGAF (Enterprise Architecture framework), TM Forum Frameworx (industry specific Process, Application, and Information frameworks), and UML (modelling standard)
  • Experience with managing third parties required to participate in the definition of solution designs, ensuring continuity of design with all internal aspects


Must have technical / professional qualifications:

Educated to degree level and/or relevant technical experience (preferably 8+ years) with a proven track record of delivering complex cross-domain IT solutions architectures and designs in the telecommunications industry


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Job Responsibility

  • Works effectively with colleagues to develop technical stories which are aligned to defined architecture principles and patterns in line with the architecture vision and standards;
  • Assists, advises and executes design, development, and deployment of digital architecture practices, standards, patterns and innovations;
  • Uses best practice knowledge to ensure the holistic solution design of future capabilities and features, including external dependencies, cross-domain integrations (APIs), and technical enablers/stories, etc.;
  • Maintains solid relations with the system integrator to ensure the solutions being delivered are aligned with Vodafone standards, best practice and business objectives, and the activity is signed off accordingly;
  • Collaborates with the team to scout new technologies and vendors to enable innovation and identify technical enablers;
  • Supports with providing strategic input and planning for large infrastructure initiatives/projects across the product�s lifecycle;
  • Supports assisting with the creation of Requests For Proposal (RFPs) on technical requirements, evaluation of answers and supplier short-listing during RFP process;
  • Uses communication skills on foundational architecture best practices and disruptive technologies and their implications;
  • May provide informal guidance to junior staff.

Skills

MicroServices and APIs
Dev Ops
Security
Architecture and Design
Software Engineering
Cloud
Business Partnering
Critical Thinking
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Deadline: 26-07-2024

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