DirecciónVodafone Internet of Things (IoT) is the world’s largest IoT service provider. Industry analysts have positioned Vodafone IoT in their Magic Quadrant for the ninth consecutive year.
We have successfully built one of the best platforms in the industry, currently supporting over 180 million IoT connections.
The Vodafone Internet of Things (IoT) platform is designed to meet the needs of global IoT customers and is protected by Vodafone IPR.
To support this key strategic growth area, IoT requires a highly capable and experienced Domain Architect to join the IoT Architecture Team leading the OSS domain.
The role includes building the roadmap for the IoT OSS technology to support customer facing and internal use cases. The right individual should have a deep understanding of OSS technologies, as well as be able to interact with senior business stakeholders.
The Future is exciting. Ready?
Role Purpose :
- Lead the definition and drive the execution of the technology strategy and roadmap for the IoT OSS domain.
- Deliver innovative and pragmatic Enterprise and Capability Architectures in line with business needs.
- Provide technical expert contribution to the technology selection process where new architecture building blocks are required.
- Define architecture patterns and principles relevant to the OSS domain, to enable auto approval of designs following pre-approved approaches.
- Participate in the design and execution of Architectural Governance across the relevant stakeholders.
- Support the early life definition and impact assessment of Programmes and Projects including shaping and scope definition.
Key accountabilities and decision ownership :
- Capability architecture definition for the OSS domain.
- Technology selection for the OSS components.
- Design approvals for designs impacting OSS.
- Maintaining architecture repository with OSS related information.
- Patterns and principles relating to the domain.
Core competencies, knowledge and experience :
- Experience in designing complex, distributed, secure and scalable architecture solutions within complex organisations, preferably in the B2B market
- Strong knowledge of architecture best practices and design patterns, including :
- 5 years + experience architecting OSS systems including monitoring, logging, alerting, diagnosis, ticketing and SLA management capabilities.
- Defining cloud-based architectures (AWS and OCI desireable).
- Managing massive data sets and environments requiring a high degree of elasticity.
- Working within a large multi-national organisation, preferably in the B2B market and / or telecoms industry.
- Working in complex architecture environments involving 50+ applications.
- Production of blueprints, roadmaps and other Enterprise Architecture documentation.
- Working with operational and engineering teams to define supportable solutions.
- Proven experience of conducting technical workshops, presenting technical solutions, preparing architecture guidelines and technical strategy documents.
- Familiar with Enterprise Architecture frameworks (TOGAF, TM Forum, etc) and capable of suggesting new tools / process.
- Excellent communication (both written.
Budget owned :
- Responsible for the architecture evolution budget.
- Responsible for budget estimates covering architecture evolution needs.
Benefits : Why Vodafone?
Why Vodafone?
At Vodafone, we are dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We take pride in our commitment to providing equal opportunities to individuals of all backgrounds and abilities.
We firmly believe that diversity includes a spectrum of experiences, and we welcome and support individuals with functional diversity.
Our mission is to create an accessible workplace where all team members can thrive, regardless of their unique abilities or challenges.
We are committed to making reasonable accommodations to ensure that everyone can fully participate and excel in our organization.
We value the unique perspectives and talents that individuals with functional diversity bring to our team and consider them an integral part of our success and innovation.
We recognize and celebrate the importance of diversity and inclusivity in our workplace so that we are as diverse as the customers and communities we serve.
We do not tolerate any form of discrimination especially related to but not limited to race, colour, age, veteran status, gender identification, sexual orientation, pregnancy, ethnicity, disability, religion, political affiliation, trade union membership, nationality, indigenous status, medical condition, HIV status, social origin, cultural background, social or marital status.
