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INTERNAL ROLE TITLE: Solution Architect

REPORTS TO: John Cole

FUNCTION: Solution Architecture

DEPARTMENT: UK IT Architecture.

LOCATION: Vodafone HQ, Newbury

Role Purpose
Working as a Solution Architect within the UK IT Architecture team, you will be supporting the delivery
of technical solutions that meet the UK business requirements, whilst ensuring compliance with the
target Global reference architecture and UK architectural principles.
You will be expected to engage with a wider range of stakeholders including project teams, the
Vodafone business at all levels, service operations, technology partners and Vodafone Group
Architecture/Technology.
Your work as a Solution Architect will include:

Building technical solutions for delivering IT capabilities, Vodafone products and services, and
Vodafone Partner Integration in a dynamically changing technology Landscape.

Working across key programmes in project teams with Vodafone partners and Suppliers to design
and deliver technology solutions to a variety of customer markets (Consumer, Enterprise, and
Wholesale) with a clear view on both Strategic and Tactical technology transformation.

Providing Technology Governance to support strategic and tactical developments to the business
in accordance with IT and Business Strategy and the UK Investment plan.

Your primary role will be to deliver and assure the technical architecture artefacts for projects. These
artefacts will include Initial Technology Assessments, Technical Options Papers, Architecture
Blueprints, High Level Designs, Impact Assessments, and Change requests. In addition, you will be
expected to develop and provide Architecture high level subject matter expertise on the Vodafone IT
Technology estate contributing to the As-is Architectures, To-be Architectures, and Architecture
roadmaps supporting Vodafone Investment plans.

Essence of Role Key Accountabilities

Assist in the definition and governance of the Vodafone UK IT architecture, ensuring that it meets
business requirements and performance goals, and that the technical direction is consistent with
Vodafone strategy.

Lead architecture effort for small to medium projects or be a member of an Architecture team for
larger programmes.

Act as a functional and technical expert for either an application, a defined set of applications or a
portfolio of related applications within UK Technology.

Participate in design reviews to ensure compliance to the target architecture throughout the
development life cycle.

Assist in delivering technical solutions that provide business advantage to Vodafone through
effective right time, right cost, and right solution design.

Contribute to and understand the IT Architecture Strategy in conjunction with VF UK Strategy and
VF Global NewVo vision.

Role Dimensions
Financial (limits/mandates etc.)

Non-financial (customers/staff etc)


No line management responsibility.
Engagement with:
UK Technology (IT and Networks)
UK Business
Vodafone Group
Technology partners

None.

Typical Outputs

Authoring and assurance of architecture project deliverables including: Initial Technology


Assessments, Technical Options Papers, Blueprints, High Level Designs, Change Requests, Impact
Assessments, and where necessary technical roadmaps and strategy papers.

Practical application of the Technology Strategy (Reference Architecture, Principles, Solution


Catalogue, Roadmap and Baseline) in day to day project activity.

Creation and maintenance of key architecture artefacts including: As-is Architectures, To-be
architectures and Capability Roadmaps.

Determine rough costs and time estimates for technical changes and proposed project technical
transformations.

Effective sharing of knowledge both within the Architecture team and wider stakeholders including
other Vodafone teams and technology partners.

Person Specification
Behaviour

Technical / Professional Expertise

Vodafone Way

Essential.

Customer Obsessed
We are passionate about exceeding

Technical competency of solution design in a


Mobile or Fixed Telco.

expectations:

Understanding of components making up the


Telco BSS & OSS technology Domains.

Application & Data Knowledge of at least one


of the following capabilities: Order
Management, Provisioning, Business
Intelligence, Security, Online, Enterprise
Integration, M2M, & B2B.

Ability to work within a technical environment


performing technical design and/or system
analysis roles across technical domains.

Demonstrated Technology background with


associated academic technical qualification
and/or experience.

Excellent written and verbal communication


skills ability to present technical solutions in
easy to understand business language.

We bring energy and passion to our work and


always aim to beat the competition:

Architects demonstrate energy, enthusiasm


and drive to improve, transform and integrate
technologies that enable Vodafone to have
competitive advantage within the UK market.

Enthusiastic and keen attitude to developing


knowledge in existing and upcoming
technologies.

Ability to build and maintain strong ongoing


relationships across a business with internal
and external stakeholders.

Architects are passionate about driving


technical capability into the UK business to
achieve business competitiveness and
business operational efficiencies, which in turn
deliver additional benefit to our customers.

Innovation Hungry
We create and deliver new products, services
and ways of working that delight our
customers:

Architects drive innovation through thought


leadership, architecting business leading
technical solutions, maintaining adaptable and
reusable architectures, and driving capability
that the UK business can leverage to launch
market leading propositions.

Ambitious & Competitive

One Company, Local Roots

We work across Vodafone to achieve the best


outcome for customers, employees and
shareholders:

Have a creative and inquisitive nature to


support problem solving and solution design.

Strong self management skills with the ability


to manage own workload to complete
assigned tasks to time and quality.

Architects are the driving force for


collaboration. They act as the interface
between the UK business and technology.
Architects craft business ideas into technical
solutions for the advantage of business users,
customers and shareholders through
enablement of technical capability to drive
compelling products and services to market.

Desired

Working experience within the Telecoms or


Finance industries.

Proven track record of defining, implementing


and driving technical change through
innovation, architectural evolution,
simplification and capability exploitation.

TOGAF certified or with significant


architecture experience at a strategic level.

Working knowledge of technologies and


applications across Core and Radio Networks,
CRM, ERP, Retail, and CTI would be an
advantage.

Speed
We drive speed to market. We relentlessly
prioritise and pursue the outcomes that matter
to our business:

Architects drive the ethos of right time, right


cost, right solution to ensure correct
investment, speed to market and appropriate
business outcomes are realised to the benefit
of Vodafone

Simplicity
We make things simple for our customers,
partners and colleagues:

Architects are the catalyst to drive technical


simplification which in turn makes technology
easier to adopt and use.

Trust
We are reliable and transparent to deal with.
We deliver for others and trust others to do
likewise:

Architects build relationships based on


trust. Architects counsel is built on trust in
our recommendations and proven track
record of delivering results.

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