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# Specialist Cloud Ai Solution Data Arch.

- **Company:** Vodafone Group Plc.
- **Location:** Madrid, Spain (Remote available)
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, BigQuery, Cloud Computing, Cloud Database, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Integration, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Systems, Data Warehousing, Oracle (Applications), Role-Based Access Control, Teradata SQL, User-Centered Design, Google Cloud, Multi-Cloud, Data Lakes, Information Technology, Deployment Automation, Data Management, Database Replication, Cloud Migration, Terraform
- **Published:** September 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.recruit.net/job/specialist-cloud-ai-solution-data-jobs/D710B4740CAB2E8E

## About the Role

* Experience in the end-to-end design and architecture of scalable data platforms in hybrid and multi-cloud environments (preferably GCP, AWS, Azure)
 * Experience / collaboration in BI pipeline design projects
 * Deep knowledge of modern data warehousing, data lakes, and ETL/ELT orchestration
 * Strong foundation in Infrastructure as Code (e.G., Terraform) and cloud security best practices (e.G., principle of least privilege, data encryption)
 * Proven track record in FinOps, including cloud cost forecasting, resource rightsizing, and optimizing compute capacity (e.G., Big Query slot allocation)
 * Experience in leading complex cloud migrations from legacy on-premises systems (e.G., Teradata, Oracle) to modern cloud hubs
 * Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering and/or other STEM degrees
 * Cloud certifications
 * Working experience in similar roles
 * Attitude to plan and organize work to deliver project as agreed
 * Great communication skills and stakeholder's management
 * Fluent English (both speaking and writing) and optional Spanish
 * (Preferred) Knowledge of Cloud Data Architecture for Data Warehousing

## Description

The Cloud AI Solution Architect will be responsible for designing and implementing the architecture of Cloud and AI solutions that align with Vodafone's strategic goals with a clear focus on scalability, robustness, security, modular and reusable components. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to reach the aforementioned objectives.
What You'll Do
Key accountabilities and decision ownership:
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 * Understand the data, and how to model them inside the BI environment to create values from information, ensuring data quality
 * Design and implement AI architectures that align with Vodafone's strategic goals
 * Design and implement decentralized data mesh architectures, establishing robust data contracts to verify formats, ensure data quality, and prevent unnecessary data replication
 * Ensure the scalability, efficiency, and security of cloud and AI solutions
 * Effort Estimation & Roadmapping: Drive the technical feasibility analysis and provide high-level effort estimations (resource, time, and complexity) for local market cloud migrations, ensuring alignment with project timelines and budget constraints
 * Establish new data interaction patterns for complex multi-cloud environments, such as optimizing direct cloud-to-cloud data movement to enhance latency and reduce costs
 * Embed FinOps principles directly into the technical design phase, ensuring that cost efficiency is a conscious consideration and a critical metric for business value
 * Design and govern AI Booster-based solutions, defining scalable cloud architectures, CI/CD patterns, security controls, and deployment strategies to enable AI and GenAI use cases across Vodafone
 * Act as the bridge between business stakeholders, engineering teams, and platform owners, translating business requirements into production-ready AI solutions while ensuring compliance, governance, and operational readiness
 * Proven technical pre-sales and solutioning skills, with the ability to translate complex business requirements into high-level cloud architecture proposals, effort estimations, and ROI-driven solutions
 * Work with business users to ensure we can support and anticipate company's data needs
 * AI-Driven Architecture: Design and implement AI-powered data solutions

Who You Are
Core competencies, knowledge and experience:
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 * Understand business requirements to enhance the systems and provide the necessary data in the best way according to the IT strategy and the business needs
 * ETL development
 * Cloud migration and transformation
 * Good understanding of Responsible AI & Ethical AI frameworks, EU AI Act. Experience of using RAI frameworks in AI solutions


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