Vodafone

Enterprise Architect – IoT Billing Domain

Vodafone

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: United Kingdom

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Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudIoTKubernetesMicroservicesNoSQLOpenStackSQL

About the role

  • 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
  • Develop high-level enterprise architecture interim and target state blueprints that cover IoT BSS domain specifically Billing and Revenue Management
  • Lead initiatives for modernising and rationalisation of legacy billing systems, migrating to the cloud, and improving the customer experience
  • Define and develop multi-year IoT billing domain roadmap evolving from current to target architecture
  • Champion architectural governance and ensure solutions align with Vodafone Group and IoT principles, strategy and tmf standards
  • Work with product and sales executives, platform, and development teams to align technology solutions with business objectives
  • 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.

Requirements

  • 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
  • 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.
Benefits
  • 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

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
enterprise architecturebilling systemsIoT architectureBSS/OSSdata modelingSQLNoSQLmicroservicescloud platformsUML
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationpresentationcollaborationinnovationgovernanceimpact assessmenttechnical workshopsstrategic thinkingproblem-solving