Job Description

Who you are To support key strategic growth areas with in Vodafone, we require a highly capable and experienced \'IT SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT\' who will be responsible for the solutions architecture and design of integrated IT/IS solutions that meet current and future needs of the four vertical business units in Group Enterprise and the Enterprise Business Units in Local Markets. The role will deliver a trusted IT Architecture & Solutions Design service to stakeholders throughout Vodafone for COMPLEX PRODUCT DEVELOPMENTS & CUSTOMER SOLUTIONS to quality, level of detail, time and cost acceptance criteria, such that we can demonstrably meet our Business colleagues\' needs and provide our colleagues in IT Domain Delivery high quality deliverables that facilitate the development, test and deployment activities whilst moving Vodafone towards its stated strategic goals. This also includes good design experience in RUN assurance /incident management lifecycle in telecom domain. What you\'ll do Telecom BSS (Business Support System) Working knowledge and/or experience of delivering solutions architectures and designs for one or more of the enterprise product sets (Fixed and Mobile Connectivity, Unified Communications, Cloud & Hosting ) Working knowledge of TOGAF (Enterprise Architecture framework), TM Forum Frame work (industry specific Process, Application, and Information frameworks), and UML (modelling standard) Experience with managing third parties required to participate in the definition of solution designs, ensuring continuity of design with all internal aspects Excellent communication (both written and spoken), negotiation and presentation skills Persists when faced with resistance and convinces other colleagues of a point of view Anticipates objections, builds on other people\'s ideas, and improves service standards Deliverable : End to End High level design (HLD/IT Solution context) document , Impact assessment document which covers component high level impact and interface high level impacts including E2E Head map/Static diagram.

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