Senior Digital & OSS E2E Solution Design Authority

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.

To define, own and evolve End-to-End Digital and OSS architecture, strategy, and roadmap aligned to Vodafone priorities and enabling the move towards Autonomous Networks.

Deliver End-to-End Digital and OSS solution designs for complex, cross-domain and cross-market initiatives, enabling autonomous, data-driven and AI-assisted capabilities to support the network’s life cycle value streams, ensuring alignment with Vodafone’s technology strategy, architecture principles, and cost-efficient delivery.

As part of the Digital and OSS Engineering Team, works on bringing our architecture’s capabilities to live, from the ground up to play a key role in creating a modern environment that will revolutionize how we provide solutions to our community.

What you’ll do

• Own the end-to-end Digital & OSS strategy and roadmap, with focus on enabling Autonomous Networks, including intent-based operations, policy-driven orchestration, and agentic decision automation
• Partner with business stakeholders, OSS management and technology teams to understand objectives and challenges, translate business requirements into clear end‑to‑end solution to shape scalable, reusable, and cost-efficient solutions.
• Ensure common ground of design principles related to the specific domains’ interworking capabilities.
• Drive the OSS technology evolution roadmap towards cloud-native, event-driven and AI-enabled platforms, in alignment to the Architecture recommendation
• Ensure strong design governance and strategic alignment, guiding technology choices and adoption of emerging OSS, automation and AI capabilities.

Who you are

• Engineering / Technology / Math’s/ Data Science Degree
• Deep expertise in OSS and Digital architecture, cloud-native systems and APIs.
• Experience with data-centric and AI-enabled architectures, including analytics, ML and agent-based frameworks.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills across markets and cultures.
• System-level thinking balancing creativity /innovation, reuse, cost and operational stability.
• Proven ability to translate business strategy and requirements into end-to-end architectures, solution designs and roadmaps.
• Architecture frameworks: TOGAF, COBIT, TM Forum Frameworks (SID, eTOM).
• Cloud platforms, containers, microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Familiar / certified TM Forum Autonomous Networks Framework
• Agile and scaled agile methodologies (e.g. SAFe).
• Very good written skills to outline technical design documents.

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 Work Model - Flexible hybrid work model with 8-10 in-office days per month, managed by team leaders
• Vodafone Products and Services - Employees get a mobile phone, free communication plan, data card, and various discounts on services and products
• Recognition - Recognition programs for innovative, creative, high-potential employees and exemplary behaviors
• Health and Well-being - Well-being Program offers nutrition and psychological consultations, webinars, workshops, and discounts on various services and products
• Learning - Access to Communities of Practice and a customizable digital training platform with high-quality content (namely Harvard Business Publishing and Skillsoft)
• Local and International Mobility - Internal recruitment with local and international rotation opportunities across departments and roles

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.