Architecture and Design Senior Manager at Vodafone defining IT landscape and overseeing enterprise architecture, solution design, and business analysis. Delivering strategic guidance to business teams for alignment with industry standards.
Responsibilities
The Architecture and Design Senior Manager plays a pivotal role in defining and evolving the organization’s IT landscape.
This individual is responsible for overseeing three main functions: Enterprise Architecture, Solution Design, and Business Analysis.
As a trusted partner and key resource for business teams, this role provides strategic guidance, blueprints for IT modernization, and technical expertise to support business goals with reference to Vodafone Group and industry standards.
Has Technology & Business focus to guide the evolution of IT in a way that delivers business value using top-notch technologies in a cost-effective way.
Set the standards for IT systems, frameworks, tools and practices to meet business requirements in the most effective and efficient ways.
Reduces redundancy, complexity, information silos and business risks associated with IT investments.
Oversees, improves and suggest enterprise services and systems to reach the ideal state for IT architecture.
Supports business teams to define the best-fit solutions for business challenges.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into technical design documents, ensuring that solutions are scalable, robust, and aligned with enterprise architecture.
Oversee the creation of solution designs for key business projects, from initial concept through implementation, to ensure technical feasibility and alignment with enterprise standards.
Ensure that solutions are designed with future enhancements in mind, promoting modularity and reusability.
Requirements
10+ years of experience in IT architecture, solution design, and/or business analysis, with a strong background in enterprise-level solutions.
Proven experience in managing teams and leading complex technology projects.
Excellent knowledge of Software Engineering principles.
Expertise in enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, TMForum) and best practices for IT stack modernization.
Excellent knowledge of IT applications, integrations, and data architecture.
Ability to translate Business Strategy and needs into Enterprise Architecture blueprints; estimate the financial impact of architectural alternatives.
Demonstrable track record of delivering on projects that span multi-disciplinary areas, preferably in a large telecommunications, Enterprise Architecture, Business and IT environments.
Having basic knowledge of Cybersecurity, Cloud, Big Data and FinTech technologies.
Benefits
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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