Business Area: VT Corporate Systems & Analytics
Posting Country: United Kingdom
Full Time / Part Time: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
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.
As a Platform Enterprise Architect, you will be responsible for setting the vision and strategy for the organization's enterprise architecture, with a strong focus on microservices, multi-cloud capabilities, and seamless integration with API and tooling strategies. You will be leading the future definition of the Vodafone platform architecture strategy, and you will have the opportunity to shape it using modern software architecture patterns. This role is strategic, guiding the organization through complex architectural decisions, ensuring alignment with business goals, and fostering innovation across the enterprise.
This position is a key member of the Global Strategy & Architecture team. For Digital & IT transformation to be successful in an organization, you need buy-in from different teams and layers across the company, including business and technology executives, architecture, development, and operations. You will need to apply your outstanding stakeholder management in order to influence at all levels of the organisation.
What will you be doing?
- Establish a microservice architecture strategy and roadmap, setting the direction for the next few years, including adoption plans, application design, management, and monitoring.
- Ensure seamless integration with the API and tooling strategies, aligned with the company's business objectives.
- Drive strategic programs and big bet initiatives across the group by developing and promoting an API-first approach.
- Research and evaluate emerging technology, industry, and market trends to assist in integration and platform architecture. Make strategic recommendations for technology adoption and integration, ensuring they align with the organisation's goals.
- Establish and enforce governance frameworks, architectural best practices, and development methodologies.
- Be one of the lead members of our Architecture Guilds, encouraging collaboration, coaching & craftsmanship.
- Develop and maintain relationships with external partners, as well as Group and local technology leads.
- Contribute to leadership across the group including Digital & IT domain by establishing best practices, design patterns leveraging integration frameworks.
- Lead and drive Global RFx’s for technologies within the integration domain working with commercial, business & technical stakeholders across the group.
Who you are
- Expert Technical knowledge including microservices, serverless architecture, and Rest APIs e.g. TMForum Open API standard, ESB, API management, event stream among other integration domain technologies.
- Deep understanding of software architecture, hosting, and API design especially when utilized with Node.js and Springboot.
- Capability to articulate and define complex architectures in a simple way to a diverse range of business and technology stakeholders, therefore excellent communication, interpersonal, influencing, and negotiating skills are a must.
- Sound overall knowledge and ability to learn of applications, integration, and data architecture methodologies and industry best practices e.g. TOGAF, SAFe, OpenGroup IT4IT, TMForum Open Digital Architecture, Open API, API technologies.
- Experience designing and building applications using any microservice-based framework e.g. Spring, Quarkus, Node.js.
- A good understanding of the AWS or equivalent Well Architected Framework pillars and guidelines, particularly regarding application security, performance & scalability, solution maintainability & cost management.
- CI/CD & DevOps practices, configuring tools “as-code.”
- SAFe Agile methods including use of associated collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence, ADO etc).
- Strong interest in Generative AI adoption.
Not a perfect fit?
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 apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another role, and our recruitment team can help you see how your skills fit in.
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.
Vodafone is committed to attracting, developing, and retaining the very best people by offering a motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognised and rewarded. We are committed to promoting Inclusion for All with the belief that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business.
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