Solution Architect

Location: UK Based (Blended home working)
Salary: Competitive + Vodafone Benefits
Hours: Full time (37.5 hours per week – Mon to Fri)

Blended Home Working

Vodafone UK’s blended working approach means you’ll come to your contracted hub location office as and when needed to get things done for your role and for tasks that require it, otherwise you will be able to work from home. Our ‘Office in a Box’ home-working kit will be available for all who need it during your onboarding journey.

Be part of the Business Technology Solutions for Vodafone UK, the team that design and develop our converged communications solutions, drive efficiency through automation and AI, whilst implement the solutions directly with our customers. We help thousands of businesses across the country with our connectivity solutions.

What will you be doing?

A new exciting opportunity has come available here at Vodafone, we are looking for a new Solution Architect (SA) to join our UK Business team. The SA role is to be the Design Lead for the end-to-end technical solution and service integration for projects within an aligned customer deal. The role will be responsible for working with the delivery teams and 3rd parties in order to design and document the solution to be delivered.

• Lead detailed design activities for the application, network and infrastructure aspects of the solution
• Ensuring designs meet requirements relating to Architecture, Legal/Regulatory, Data protection, and Security
• Support and occasionally lead the external & Internal system interface
• Provide technical assurance and support testing, implementation, integration and operational readiness activities

Who are we looking for?

At Vodafone we are looking for you to have experience of working with 3rd party vendors both on the technical and business level as well as knowledge of how services and operations work.

• Strong understanding and experience of Telecommunications Networks (ideally 4G/LTE).
• Educated to degree level, or equivalent
• Strong understanding and experience of specific Network technologies, to include IPv4, IPv6 and MPLS networks.
• Strong understanding and experience of network integration to cloud-based platforms (ideally AWS).
• Strong understanding and experience of cloud-based platforms, to included hosting and services (ideally AWS).
• Good knowledge of IT Security standards and compliance requirements.

Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about Inclusion for All and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. So, if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we would encourage you to apply as you be just the right candidate for this role or another role, and our recruitment team can help see how your skills fit in.

What’s in it for you?

An excellent remuneration and bonus package with 28 days holiday entitlement, in addition to bank holidays and paid leave for charity projects. We offer an extensive benefits package that can be tailored to suit you and your family, including employee discounts, retail vouchers, pension plan and share schemes. We’re also proud to provide a Reconnect programme with flexibility to support individuals returning to work after a career break and our market-leading parental leave policies. We’re committed to supporting you throughout every step of your career at Vodafone.

Together we can

Vodafone UK are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and all offers of employment for this role are subject to background checks, including criminal (DBS) and financial checks to meet the regulators standards.
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, a sign language interpreter, or assistive technology, please refer to the Accessibility section of our Careers website (careers.vodafone.co.uk) under Career Support, for guidance.