- Enterprise Architect Newbury
- Vodafone in Newbury, , United Kingdom
- jobs
- 1 month ago
jobs description
Job Title: Enterprise Architect
Role Purpose
To support the definition, articulation and governance of the E2E Business Operations application architecture across local markets and global business functions supporting our operations globally. The focus of this role within the technology strategy & architecture team will be to maintain the architectural capability framework, define clear boundaries with other technology domains and provide architectural guidance to the group functions and local markets.
Key responsibilities will include:
• Creating target state and interim state architectures & maintaining reference architecture model
• Defining and maintaining IT Roadmap for the Group Functions
• Creating value driven capability roadmaps
• Reviewing, aligning, and governing local market and global business function solutions
• Shaping new demand, aligning it to our target architecture and manage long term roadmaps and solution catalogues
• Prepare architectural guidance to group functions and local markets plus project teams
• Ensure compliance of solution architectural design to the VF enterprise architecture guidelines and principles
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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Newbury United Kingdom