Platform Enterprise Architect

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 and 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 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 to 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 integration domain working with commercial, business & technical stakeholder across the group.

Expert Technical knowledge is key for this role including microservice, 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 utilised 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, Quarkys, framework, 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

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., 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.

As part of our global family, whether that's Vodafone, Vodacom or _VOIS, you'll feel a sense of pride and purpose as you contribute to our culture of innovation. We pursue equality of opportunity and inclusion for all candidates through our employment policies and practices. We recognise and celebrate the importance of diversity and inclusivity in our workspace and 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.

Together we can.

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. We actively encourage everyone to consider becoming a part of our journey.