
Senior Digital & OSS E2E Solution Design Authority
Vodafone
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Portugal
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About the role
- 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.
Requirements
- 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.
Benefits
- 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
OSS architecturecloud-native systemsAPIsdata-centric architecturesAI-enabled architecturesanalyticsmachine learningagent-based frameworksarchitecture frameworksevent-driven architectures
Soft Skills
stakeholder managementinfluencing skillssystem-level thinkingcreativityinnovationoperational stabilitybusiness strategy translationsolution designroadmap developmentwritten communication