AI Software Architect

Job Description

Join Us

At Vodafone, we’re not just shaping the future of connectivity for our customers – we’re shaping the future for everyone who joins our team. When you work with us, you’re part of a global mission to connect people, solve complex challenges, and create a sustainable and more inclusive world. If you want to grow your career whilst finding the perfect balance between work and life, Vodafone offers the opportunities to help you belong and make a real impact.

As an AI Software Architect at Vodafone Romania, you will play a key role in designing and implementing cutting-edge artificial intelligence solutions. This role involves collaborating with data science and data engineering teams to ensure AI architectures align with corporate strategies and achieve business objectives.
The ideal candidate will have strong technical experience, excellent problem-solving skills, and the ability to lead and mentor AI teams.

What you’ll do

AI Solution Development
• Design, develop and implement end-to-end AI and genAI solutions for various business domains.
• Design, develop and implement Agentic AI systems (Agentic AI): Design, build and implement agentic AI systems that demonstrate autonomy, tool-use, reasoning, memory and planning capabilities.
• Lead the implementation of AI models, algorithms and systems in production environments.

Analysis of IT requirements and trends
• Analyzes and responds to clients' business requirements in order to build, adapt and harmonize AI solutions for IT
• Analyzes the technologies specific to the communications industry, global IT development trends, and Artificial Intelligence, global IT and AI system development methodologies, market requirements as well as its development trends, proposes an IT solution in accordance with the business need, budget and available time requested by external clients

Architecture and Data Management
• Defining efficient data architectures to feed machine learning models and facilitate transparent data sharing between systems.
• Defining MCP and RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) architectures.

Infrastructure and Performance Optimization
• Establish robust infrastructures, deployed in cloud environments, to ensure that AI models operate on accurate data, meet SLAs (Service Level Agreements) and deliver high performance.
• Design MLOps Pipelines: Develop, maintain and optimize automated CI/CD pipelines for deploying, monitoring and retraining models, ensuring their reliability and scalability.

Leadership and Collaboration
• Coordinates, validates and guides AI Engineers and Prompt Engineers towards optimal solutions and implementations of AI projects.
• Coordinates and sets the framework for calculating and evaluating the accuracy of implemented AI algorithms, together with the RAI Market Lead.
• Provides technical guidance and mentoring to AI Engineers and Prompt Engineers.
• Collaborates with enterprise architects, solution architects and stakeholders to ensure smooth integration of AI solutions.

Security and Compliance
• Implementing best practices for protecting sensitive data and AI systems while maintaining compliance with industry standards.

Who you are

Required:
o Minimum 6 years of experience designing, building and managing large-scale data applications, especially in Hadoop ecosystems (Cloudera, Spark, Hive/Impala, etc.).
o Hands-on experience with Artificial Intelligence (AI) frameworks and libraries, such as TensorFlow, PyTorch and Scikit-learn.
o Strong knowledge of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), including foundational models, generative adversarial networks (GANs) and reinforcement learning.
o Expertise in software development using Python, Java or Scala (knowledge of other programming languages ​​is an advantage).
o Proven experience in implementing and deploying AI models in production environments.
o Deep knowledge of containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
o Strong understanding of cloud environments (AWS, Google Cloud or Azure), microservices architectures and real-time analytics.
o Deep knowledge of core algorithms, functional and object-oriented design principles and best practice patterns.
o Proven experience in REST API development, NoSQL database design and RDBMS design and optimizations.
o Proven experience in program management, governance and change enablement.
o Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
o Excellent communication and teamwork skills

Preferred:
• Technical certifications
• Ability to work with diverse groups and individuals within and outside the organization.
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies, including Scrum, DevOps, MLOps and DataOps.
• Familiarity with workflow and data pipeline management tools (e.g. Apache Airflow, N8N).

Required Technical/Professional Certifications:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a field related to technology and exact sciences (e.g., Computer Science, Mathematics, Industrial Engineering, or related quantitative disciplines).

Not a perfect fit?

Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about empowering people and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. 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 still apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another opportunity.

What's in it for you

• Hybrid working regime 2 days from the office, 3 days remote
• Special discounts for Vodafone employees, Friends & Family offers
• Demo telephone subscription - unlimited (voice and data)
• Voucher for the purchase of a mobile phone
• Medical subscription to a top private clinic & other medical benefits
• Insurance for hospitalization and surgical interventions
• Life insurance
• Meal tickets
• Bookster subscription
• Participation in development programs and challenging projects in the leadership area
• Access to internal Wellbeing & Recognition events
• Extra vacation days (for seniority, special events, volunteering)
• You will benefit from specializations in your field of activity, through programs based on modern training methods and systems

Who we are

We are a leading international Telco, serving millions of customers. At Vodafone, we believe that connectivity is a force for good. If we use it for the things that really matter, it can improve people's lives and the world around us. Through our technology we empower people, connecting everyone regardless of who they are or where they live and we protect the planet, whilst helping our customers do the same.

Belonging at Vodafone isn't a concept; it's lived, breathed, and cultivated through everything we do. You'll be part of a global and diverse community, with many different minds, abilities, backgrounds and cultures. ;We're committed to increase diversity, ensure equal representation, and make Vodafone a place everyone feels safe, valued and included.

If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, please refer to https://careers.vodafone.com/application-adjustments/ for guidance.

Together we can.