Enterprise Architect- IOT Billing Domain

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, your 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.

Joining Vodafone IoT’s team means being part of a growing, purpose-driven organisation at the forefront of innovation. Our teams are made up of curious minds, problem-solvers, and forward-thinkers across the world who thrive in a collaborative, high-performing, inclusive environment.

What you’ll do

• Be responsible for the Enterprise Architecture of billing domain (consisting of several applications): leading implementation, prioritising features together with business and demand management teams and driving innovation.
• Lead and drive the IoT architecture evolution, specifically Digital IoT BSS domain architecture with focus areas Billing, Charging and Revenue Management ).

Strategic Design and Architecture

• Develop high-level enterprise architecture interim and target state blueprints that covers IoT BSS domain specifically Billing and Revenue Management.

Digital Transformation:

• Lead initiatives for modernizing and rationalisation of legacy billing systems, migrating to the cloud, and improving the customer experience.

Architecture Road mapping

• Define and develop multi-year IoT billing domain roadmap evolving from current to target architecture.

Architecture Governance

• Champion architectural governance and ensure solutions align with Vodafone Group and IoT principles, strategy and tmf standards.

Stakeholder Management

• Work with product and sales executives, platform, and development teams to align technology solutions with business objectives.

Technical leadership

• • Impact assessment of new product feature development and customer requirements and produce high level options pack with estimated costs and delivery timelines.
  • Manage and deliver proof of Concepts demonstrating state of the art technology capabilities in BSS/OSS platform.
  • Evaluate and choose the right solution for new projects, which may involve comparing off-the-shelf solutions with custom builds.
  • Technology vendor recommendations and build vs buy decisions for target capabilities.

Who you are

• Experience in designing complex, distributed, secure and scalable end to end architecture solutions within complex organisations, preferably in the B2B market.
• Must have prior experience of architecting and leading in telco BSS/OSS specifically Billing and Charging) transformation programs.
• Strong knowledge of architecture best practices and design patterns, including:
  • Strong experience in designing and modelling Complex Billing Models, Customer Hierarchies , Product Models.
  • Ability to design conceptual and logical data models.
  • Experience of database architectures, data modelling, SQL and NoSQL approaches.
  • Sound experience working with a broad range of integration architectural patterns (e.g. SOA and microservices, etc) and especially with Apigee.
  • Sound understanding of modern web architecture and Serverless architecture
  • Knowledge of container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes)
  • In depth knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure and OpenStack)
  • Ability to conduct in-depth design reviews of large systems
  • Understanding of DevOps culture, practices and tools
  • Experience of production systems and the issues that arise, e.g. functional, performance, security
• Proven experience of conducting technical workshops, presenting technical solutions, preparing architecture guidelines and technical strategy documents.
• Experience of producing high quality UML based architecture artefacts.
• Familiar with Enterprise Architecture frameworks (TOGAF, TM Forum, etc) and capable of suggesting new tools/process.
• Good understanding of Telco Core Network Access technologies 3g,4g/5g.
• Excellent communication (both written and verbal) and presentation skills.

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

• 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: the first 13 weeks are fully paid, followed by 26 weeks of half pay
• 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

With more than 200 million device connections around the world, Vodafone IoT is a global leader in managed IoT connectivity – connecting people, places and devices. We help create a smarter, more sustainable, and more connected world - from enabling smart cities and autonomous vehicles to transforming healthcare, agriculture, and logistics. Our work shapes the digital future of businesses – allowing them to effectively manage and monitor their operations using IoT. As a global leader in IoT connectivity – operating in more than 180 countries across the globe - we empower individuals, businesses, and entire industries to unlock their potential through technology that’s secure, scalable, and future-ready. Vodafone IoT is a subsidiary of Vodafone Group.

Vodafone Group is 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.

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Together we can.