Vodafone

Network Architect

,United Kingdom
  • Salary average
    -YEAR
  • Type of employment
    Full-time

Company

Vodafone is a leading telecommunications company in Europe and Africa. We connect for a better future, using technology to improve people’s lives and enable an inclusive, sustainable digital society. We are guided by our Social Contract – how we bring our purpose to life through what we do. It is our commitment to society, customers, and governments to connect rural communities, to enable access to education, healthcare, and financial services; and to help businesses. With these actions we also contribute to the success of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Through our business, we aim to build a digital society that enhances socioeconomic progress, is inclusive for all and does not come at a cost to our planet.

Responsibilities

  • ## Who you are
  • Ensure accurate end to end technical and service specification and delivery of new Product Features in line with budget, time and quality.
  • Capture and manage all requirements and ensure they are translated into a logical incremental delivery plan (including MVP) and in line with Sage Agile Principles and Vodafone Governance model
  • Ensure accurate OSS/BSS integration for new Product Features
  • Review key product documentation from internal stakeholders and external suppliers, including backlog, HLD's, Low Level designs.
  • Manage End to End, Design Oriented, Risk Assumptions Information Dependencies/Decisions (RAID) logbook during Product Delivery Lifecycle

Skills used at work

    What you'll do


    Role purpose:
    This role is for a Product Architect to support development of Vodafone's Fixed Connectivity Underlay Product range. The Vodafone underlay Product range provides high speed connectivity across a global footprint targeted at branch and data centre connectivity.
    Key accountabilities and Decision Ownership:
    - Ensure accurate end to end technical and service specification and delivery of new Product Features in line with budget, time and quality.
    - Capture and manage all requirements and ensure they are translated into a logical incremental delivery plan (including MVP) and in line with Sage Agile Principles and Vodafone Governance model
    - Ensure accurate OSS/BSS integration for new Product Features
    - Review key product documentation from internal stakeholders and external suppliers, including backlog, HLD's, Low Level designs.
    - Manage End to End, Design Oriented, Risk Assumptions Information Dependencies/Decisions (RAID) logbook during Product Delivery Lifecycle


    Who you are


    Must Have Technical / Professional Qualifications:
    - Relevant higher education in a related field (computer science / networking field)
    - Knowledge and understanding of the Fixed Connectivity and particularly Metro Ethernet Forum products.
    - OSS/BSS integration experience
    - Service Design knowledge
    - Safe Agile Awareness or even better Certified


    Not a perfect fit?


    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. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another role, and our recruitment team can help you see how your skills fit in.


    What's in it for you


    G Band:
    - Discretionary yearly bonus: 10%
    - Annual leave: 28 days + bank holidays + the opportunity to buy/sell/carry over 5 days/year
    - Charity days: 5 days/year
    - Maternity/adoption leave: 52 weeks out of which the first 13 weeks are fully paid followed by 26 weeks of half pay and 6 months - working 4 days, getting paid 5
    - Paternity leave: 16 weeks fully paid
    - Private pension: You can contribute up to 5% of your basic pay with 2:1 matching from Vodafone up to 10%.
    - Access to: private medical, private dental, free health assessments, share save scheme
    - Additional discounts: Vodafone retail, gym, cinema, cycle to work, season ticket loan


    Together we can


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    Job posted: Jan 24, 2024

    Expiration date: Jan 24, 2025