Platform Technical Lead

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.

What you’ll do

Leads the technical direction for VP&C digital platforms, ensuring scalable, secure, and well-integrated solutions across workflows, AI, cloud, and enterprise systems. Acts as the main technical authority for platform and integration decisions, driving consistency and quality, and leading the evolution of AVA into a robust, enterprise-grade procurement platform.

1. Technical leadership & platform decision ownership
• Act as the technical authority for assigned digital platforms (including AVA), owning key engineering and design decisions across workflows, integrations, data flows, AI components, and cloud services.
• Hold accountability for build vs. buy vs. integrate decisions, balancing speed, cost, risk, sustainability, and partner dependency.
• Define and enforce technical principles, design patterns, coding standards, and architectural guardrails for both in-house teams and delivery partners.
2. Solution architecture & system integration
• Design and steward end-to-end technical solutions covering application architecture, integration layers, data flows, identity, security, and environments.
• Own integration design with internal enterprise systems (finance, ERP, identity, data platforms) and the external partner ecosystem using APIs, events, iPaaS, or batch mechanisms.
• Ensure all integration and architecture choices align with Vodafone Group cloud strategy, security posture, and enterprise architecture standards.
3. Delivery enablement & technical assurance
• Provide clear technical direction during backlog refinement, sprint planning, and delivery execution.
• Review, validate, and challenge technical designs and implementations from internal teams and external partners to ensure robustness at VP&C scale.
• Proactively identify technical risks (performance, scalability, security, AI constraints, integration debt) and drive mitigation plans.
4. Cloud, AI & non-functional quality ownership
• Guide the adoption of AI-enabled capabilities (including automation and GenAI use cases) in line with governance, security, and ethical standards.
• Own non-functional requirements: performance, availability, resilience, observability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Ensure cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines, and operational models support stable production operations and future scalability.
5. Continuous improvement & platform evolution
• Identify opportunities to simplify architecture, reduce technical debt, and improve efficiency across platforms.• Lead production incident analysis and root-cause reviews, feeding lessons learned into the technical roadmap. • Contribute to platform roadmaps and technology roadmaps with a clear technical lens on where to invest, consolidate, or retire capabilities.

Who you are

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent professional experience.
• 8+ years relevant experience in software engineering, technical architecture, or platform leadership roles.
• Demonstrable experience delivering enterprise scale digital solutions with significant integration complexity.
• Strong hands on background in modern cloud (Azure, AWS or GCP), CI/CD observability and platform operations.
• Production experience integrating LLM-based agents or GenAI capabilities into enterprise workflows.
• Pega, Camunda, Appian or equivalent BPM / low-code experience.
• Procurement, supply chain or source-to-pay domain familiarity.
• Certifications in Cloud (Azure / AWS / GCP), Architecture (TOGAF) or Agile.

• Platform engineering at enterprise scale: proven track record leading the engineering of complex multi-stakeholder platforms, ideally with workflow engines, an integration backbone and substantial third-party delivery.
• Agent and LLM integration: first-hand experience integrating LLM-based agents (RAG, tool-use, evaluation, observability) into production systems, including the design choices that determine cost, latency, accuracy and governance.
• Integration architecture: strong fluency in API, event-driven and iPaaS-based integration; experience designing for partner ecosystems where you do not control every endpoint.
• Workflow / BPM platforms: meaningful exposure to Pega, Camunda, Appian or equivalent low-code / BPM platforms; comfort with the engineering trade-offs of model-driven platforms versus code-first stacks.
• Partner orchestration and challenge: confident operating peer-to-peer with global SIs and delivery partners (Google, Accenture, hyperscalers, MSPs); able to challenge designs and commercial framing without breaking the relationship.

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

We want you to feel happy and fulfilled at work, without compromising the other things in life that matter to you. Here are some of the ways we support this:
Annual Discretionary Bonus
• Rewarding your hard work and dedication
Generous Annual Leave
• 28 days of annual leave, with the option to buy an additional 5 days and the opportunity to carry over 5 days per year
• 1 additional day (Family Day) for personal milestones or special occasions
• 11 public holidays to enjoy time with family and friends
• 5 charity days per year to give back to the community
Flexible Work Arrangements
• Flexible working schedule to help you balance your professional and personal life
• 20 days to work from abroad, allowing you to combine work with travel and new experiences
Comprehensive Health and Wellness
• Lunch vouchers to support your midday meals
• Access to private AXA health insurance and a robust pension scheme to secure your health and future
Continuous Learning and Development
• Access to Vodafone University and online training resources to help you grow your skills and advance your career

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.

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Together we can.