Enterprise Architect

Job Title: Enterprise Architect

Role Purpose

To support the definition, articulation and governance of the E2E B2B Architecture across local markets and global business functions supporting our business customers globally. The focus area will be enterprise architecture for the domain of Business Operations (ref.to V-ODA Framework). At Corporate level the Business Operations Corporate IT Systems is covering the main areas of group FIN, SCM and HR based on an SAP core system, group-wide consumer services on behalf of the local markets. The support should provide both at Corporate and Local Markets for the Business Ops Domain.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Creating target state and interim state architectures


• Define and maintain IT Roadmap for the Group Functions


• Creating value driven capability roadmaps


• Reviewing, aligning, and governing local market and global business function solutions


• Maintaining reference architectures


• Driving innovation


• Shaping new demand, aligning it to our target architecture and manage long term roadmaps and solution catalogues


• Provide architectural guidance to project team and ensure compliance of solution architectural design to the VF enterprise architecture guidelines and principles


• Support: Provide Expertise and issue management in crisis situations for project teams with regards to architecture issues.


What you'll do


• Participate in the creation / maintenance of overall Enterprise Architecture Deliverables including Strategy and Reference Architectures coordinating input from diverse Architecture Stakeholders


• Participate in the creation, ownership, and maintenance and publish the IT Architecture and Strategy, Work with Local Market Architecture Leads to align local strategy, architecture and roadmap to the overall IT Architecture and Strategy, Enterprise Data Model and IT Roadmap.


• Work with local markets and group technology teams to roll out Digital organisations (building inner source communities, co-creating Architecture Blueprints, supporting the rollout and optimisation of DevOps tooling and Agile methods and organisation)


• Participate in the design and execution of Architectural Governance across the relevant stakeholders and participating Vodafone organisations


• Produce, Support & Guide the Delivery of Target, Transitional and Solution Architectures for business and IT transformation deliveries through the appropriate Architectural Artefacts, Deliverables and Communications


Who you are


• Capability to articulate and define complex architectures in a simple way to stakeholders underpinned by a structured analytical approach and high-quality Architectural Artefacts and Deliverables.


• Excellent communication skills (both written and spoken). Able to gain influence at senior levels across Vodafone Local Markets, Partners and Affiliates, Suppliers putting across complex ideas in a simple way. Specific experience and demonstrable capability around the effective presentation of Architecture concepts to a diverse range of stakeholders.


• Industry experience in Telecoms and rolling out solutions in a large enterprise scale with preferable experience in cloud engineering and API driven architectures. Knowledge of SAP will also be valued.


• Demonstrable track record of delivering on projects that span multi-disciplinary areas, preferably in a large telecommunications and/or Digital organisation with Enterprise Architecture, Business and IT environments.


• Sound overall knowledge of applications, integration, and data architecture methodologies and industry best practices with a special focus on cloud solutions.


What's in it for you

Discretionary yearly bonus: 10%
Annual leave: 28 days + bank holidays + the opportunity to buy/sell/carry over 5 days/year
Charity days: 5 days/year
Maternity leave: 52 weeks out of which 39 weeks are fully paid + 13 weeks half pay and 6 months - working 4 days, getting paid 5
Private pension: You can contribute up to 5% of your basic pay with 2:1 matching from Vodafone up to 10%.
Access to: private medical, private dental, free health assessments, share save scheme
Additional discounts: Vodafone retail, gym, cinema, cycle to work, season ticket loan

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.

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.

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• Excellent communication skills (both written and spoken). Able to gain influence at senior levels across Vodafone Local Markets, Partners and Affiliates, Suppliers putting across complex ideas in a simple way. Specific experience and demonstrable capability around the effective presentation of Architecture concepts to a diverse range of stakeholders.


• Industry experience in Telecoms and rolling out solutions in a large enterprise scale with preferable experience in cloud engineering and API driven architectures. Knowledge of SAP will also be valued.


• Demonstrable track record of delivering on projects that span multi-disciplinary areas, preferably in a large telecommunications and/or Digital organisation with Enterprise Architecture, Business and IT environments.


• Sound overall knowledge of applications, integration, and data architecture methodologies and industry best practices with a special focus on cloud solutions.
  
  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.

Discretionary yearly bonus: 10%
Annual leave: 28 days + bank holidays + the opportunity to buy/sell/carry over 5 days/year
Charity days: 5 days/year
Maternity leave: 52 weeks out of which 39 weeks are fully paid + 13 weeks half pay and 6 months - working 4 days, getting paid 5
Private pension: You can contribute up to 5% of your basic pay with 2:1 matching from Vodafone up to 10%.
Access to: private medical, private dental, free health assessments, share save scheme
Additional discounts: Vodafone retail, gym, cinema, cycle to work, season ticket loan