Role purpose:

This role is part of the new centralised IT team within Vodafone Shared Services. The Application Architect defines the architecture and guidelines for the application landscape of the entire VOIS organisation with 17,000+ employees. The role is responsible for developing a VSS-wide application architecture model, which enables the continued growth of the VSS organisation and is consistent across the four VSS locations (India, Egypt, Rumanian, Hungary).
The Application Architect supports early-stage projects in reviewing technical solution and ensure architecture-compliant IT solution designs and deriving high-level effort estimations. The role also reviews and approves solution designs of new applications for internal VSS usage.
The Application Architect collaborates closely with:
•    Team colleagues for network and infrastructure architecture to ensure that the various architecture aspects tie into each other
•    Team colleagues for business inside VOIS and LM to assure requirements traceability and business goals using the proper solution
•    TSSC team for implementation of the architecture guidelines 
•    Information Security Team to ensure security guidelines are reflected in the application architecture
•    VSS-external peers to ensure alignment with the wider Vodafone IT application landscape
The Architect also owns and maintains the Application Lifecycle Management tool, which keeps records of all application currently in use within VSS.
 

Key accountabilities and decision ownership:

-    Define and own the application architecture for the entire VOIS IT Automation organisation, promote buy-in from business and IT side for the common architecture model
-    Design the solution for different organizations and business owners like CARE, Business, CFSL and COE.
-    Support service transition projects in architecture-compliant solution designs, effort-estimation, vendor selection and implementation approach
-    Review solution designs and ensure adherence to the VSS application architecture guidelines
-    Ensure alignment of the application architecture with (a) the network and infrastructure architecture and (b) the Vodafone-Group architecture model and standards for IT applications
-    Own and maintain the Application Lifecycle Management tool
-    Actively participate as a technical owner in tenders for product and vendor evaluations.
-    Responsible on end to end solution design and integration to assure reliable services. 
 

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

-    Experience in developing reference architecture models for the IT application landscape of a global IT organisation
-    Deep understanding of AI with main focus on Gen AI and different LLM models 
-    Experience in designing and building optimized cloud solutions that integrate with different application and AI capabilities. 
-    Experience in different programming languages and capability to build a quick POC
-    Experience in automation, workflows, RPA, and REST,JSON, Webservice APIs.
-    Good understanding of CRM, ERP, HR and monitoring applications from different vendors 
-    Good understanding of architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, COBIT, ITIL and eTOM
-    Proven track-record in defining application solution designs for complex IT projects supporting both on-premise and cloud technology with high availability using AWS, Google & Azure.
-    Experience working for a large scale global communication service provider or IT organization

Must have technical / professional qualifications:

-    Technical Degree
-    6+ years’ experience in solutions design

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