Business Solution Architect
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Job description
The Business Solution Architect plays a key role to ensuring Corporate Functions maintains and expands its competitive edge by delivering business solutions and providing architecture and platform adoption for existing and new customers within Vodafone, across the telecommunications sector and beyond. The solutions will strengthen Corporate Functions ability to deliver cutting-edge services that can scale (in line with the rest of the organisation) whilst striving to set new industry benchmarks. This role is critical to ensuring the organization remains competitive and future-ready., Architect the design and implementation of advanced, scalable business solutions for Corporate Functions and beyond, ensuring alignment with established architecture principles, guardrails and governance
- Contribute to defining and evolving the Corporate Functions architecture strategy, including maintaining frameworks and standards across all towers and subsidiaries
- Support platform adoption governance, driving measurable improvements in standardisation, automation, user experience, and operational efficiency
- Use platform adoption metrics to define, assess and recommend high-impact improvement opportunities across processes, platforms and operating models
- Orchestrate cross-functional collaboration for wireframing, solution analysis, target architecture definition, implementation and delivery of user journeys, business solutions and interfaces - ensuring reusability, customer satisfaction and readiness for scale
- Support the creation of business value cases, ensuring benefit realization, cost optimization and alignment with strategy
- Represent CF in internal architecture forums and external partner engagements, supporting alignment, partnership development, and strategic influence
Requirements
Do you have a Master's degree?, In-depth knowledge of the most relevant software solutions in multiplex Telco IT environments, including ERP systems, Data & Analytics, RPA, AI, and Microsoft platforms
- Master degree in a Computer Science, Engineering, or a related scientific/technical discipline
- Proven experience in contributing to transformation, digitalization and or/ innovation solution initiatives.
- Ability to evaluate, compare and recommend solutions and products, ensuring alignment with customer needs and business strategy
- Passion for driving customer excellence through scalable, reusable, cost-efficient and automated solutions that enhance the user experience
- Highly self-driven and proactive, with the ability to work independently while maintaining strong alignment with the Solution Strategy and Platform Optimisation Lead
- Experience working in complex, multi-project or multi-programme environments
- Ability to support and enable teams through agile ways of working.
- +5 years of proven experience delivering business and solution architectures across multi-disciplinary domains, preferably within large telecommunications or IT organisations
- Extensive knowledge of systems, processes and service operations, particularly within Finance, HR and SCM domain, with strong understanding of end-to-end process optimisation
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to engage and lead cross-functionally teams at all levels, including technology and business stakeholders
- Experience in customer consultancy, including the ability to present strategic business concepts and drive user-centric, value-led outcomes
- Deep understanding of Business Analysis, Solution Design Thinking, and Requirements Engineering, with the capability to shape intuitive and effective user journeys
- Proven experience in defining and documenting solution architecture, including wireframes, workflow designs, integration and user experience flows
