Business Area: VT Netw. Strategy Archit. Eng.
Posting Country: Portugal
Full Time / Part Time: Full Time
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract
At Vodafone, we’re working hard to build a better future. A more connected, inclusive and sustainable world. As a dynamic global community, it's our human spirit, together with technology, that empowers us to achieve this.
We challenge and innovate in order to connect people, businesses, and communities across the world. Delighting our customers and earning their loyalty drive us, and we experiment, learn fast and get it done, together.
With us, you can be truly be yourself and belong, share inspiration, embrace new opportunities, thrive, and make a real difference.
Responsibilities
* Responsible for the design and architecture of Digital Network solutions that address business demands within Network Product Engineering, leading a team.
* Work closely with the Digital Management Office, Digital Product & Platform Engineering, and senior stakeholders to analyze and design cutting-edge solutions using the latest applicable technologies that meet and exceed the needs of our Network customers.
* Provide solutions for internal Networks teams across the entire organization that go beyond Vodafone’s Tech2025 ambition.
* Design Vodafone’s next generation Network Digital solutions in conjunction with designers and architects across Vodafone.
* Engage with stakeholders, product managers, Cyber Security and Privacy, and others to create a consistent design with common standards.
* Strategic ownership for solution design and architecture to ensure scalable and operationally efficient innovative digital solutions built to maximize value for the company.
* Work closely with development teams and stakeholders to ensure alignment.
* Co-own make or buy decisions for solutions or components of solutions in a hybrid modular approach, requiring a profound understanding of communication networks and corresponding tools and processes.
* Ensure that solutions are architected and built in the most elegant way to optimize the cost-benefit matrix.
* Involvement with the prototyping of new functionality to enable efficient validation of business hypotheses by delivering MVPs to secure stakeholder engagement and foster investment decisions.
* Collaborate closely with cross-domain and cross-functional teams, including stakeholders, product management, platform engineering, and FinOps to understand business requirements and ensure product alignment with business objectives and operational processes.
* Provide leadership in guiding and mentoring the team, onboarding junior team members in the design and architecture of products.
* Close collaboration with platform and cloud architecture functions to ensure that the platform architecture and ecosystem meet the needs of the new product design when relevant.
* Lead Design and Architecture activities for Digital Product development and ensure that corresponding processes and tools follow Vodafone policies and guardrails.
* Foster the company’s implementation of the SAFe framework and communicate effectively with stakeholders, executives, and cross-functional teams about the products’ progress and performance.
* Ensure all products and processes comply with relevant regulations and ethical guidelines.
* Act as an authority on the E2E architectural integrity of digital products and solutions being developed within Vodafone networks, collaborating closely with the various engineering teams to ensure solution design meets requirements.
* Support wider functions on critical solution decisions that support the organization's modernization and operate as a digitally native company.
* Design and implement modern, scalable architectures, focusing on leveraging cloud services.
* Assess and recommend the best of breed technology solutions to address business needs.
* Lead and mentor a team designing enterprise-wide dynamically scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant, secure, and reliable solutions.
* Responsible for analyzing and translating business, information, and technical requirements into architectural blueprints.
* Safeguard overall Digital Product solutions and ensure adherence to architectural standards and principles.
Who you are
* Degree in computer science or related field.
* Architect with extensive experience in large scale integration projects (5 years’ min) and defining solution architecture standards and guidelines in the Telco domain.
* Experience in assessing a broad range of solutions and products.
* 5+ years’ experience in working in a multi-project and multi-programme environment.
* Strong stakeholder management and ability to influence senior stakeholders.
* GCP/AWS Cloud Professional certification.
* TOGAF and/or Archimate2 certification.
* In-depth knowledge of product engineering processes and components, as well as architectural trade-offs to balance performance and operational costs.
* Proven experience in designing large distributed, secure, robust, and scalable architecture solutions.
* Deep knowledge of architectural methodologies and design patterns, as well as security standards and best practices in engineering secure products.
* Excellent communication skills with the ability to express complex concepts in digestible terms.
What's in it for you
We want you to feel happy and fulfilled at work, without compromising the other things in life that matter to you. There are lots of ways we support this, including hybrid working and generous parental leave. You'll also get four Spirit Days a year to focus on your personal development and wellbeing, plus a host of other great benefits too.
Who we are
You may have already heard of Vodafone - We're a leading Telecommunications company in Europe and Africa. But what you might not know is that we are continuously investing in new technologies to improve the lives of millions of customers, businesses, and people around the world, creating a better future for everyone.
Together we can.
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