Location: Newbury + *Hybrid
Salary: Excellent basic salary plus bonus and Vodafone benefits
Working Hours: Full time hours per week – Mon to Fri
*Hybrid
At Vodafone UK we believe that through collaboration and connection with our colleagues we can achieve great things. Our hybrid working approach allows our people to work both in the office and at home, providing the flexibility and resources you need to succeed in your role. We don't require you to be in on specific days; instead, we ask people to come into the office 2-3 days each week, on average 8 days a month. Our “Office in a Box” home working kit will provide you with everything you need, no matter where you are.
Who We Are
We’re a global technology communications company that empowers people and businesses to stay connected and thrive in a digital world. With a focus on innovation, sustainability and earning customer loyalty, we leverage cutting-edge technology to offer products and services that enhance communication and improve lives.
At Vodafone UK, diversity isn’t just a buzzword, it is core to who we are as a company. We’re proud to be certified as a Great Place to Work and are committed to driving inclusion for all; creating a workplace that is fully representative of the communities and customers we serve.
Join Vodafone UK IT, which is at the core of our digital future, analysing and operating all our internal and customer-facing systems, with the aim of delivering the best customer experience. None of it would be possible without our innovative teams, creating a connected future with technologies like Cloud, AI and big data.
What you’ll do
The role of the Product Architect is to provide a consultancy and product design service to the Vodafone UK Consumer and Enterprise business; delivering designs for strategic roadmap and business as usual change; assuring designs for programmes delivering configurable capability. You are also a Subject Matter Expert in product configuration area shaping new configuration & technical projects and providing guidance to Product Architecture Team, as well as other IT functions.
1. You will provide design consultancy during the concept and feasibility stages of the product management lifecycle to shape requirements and align designs to key technical and customer journey design principles.
2. You will define product-modelling principles to support performance improvements, reduction in cost, speed to market by influencing other domain’s roadmaps / commercial roadmap / proposition rationalization / product governance decisions
3. You will conduct solution architecture and design reviews at key points in the delivery lifecycle to ensure compliance to the domain roadmap
4. Challenge business and technical requirements and design to ensure that functional and non-functional requirements for configuration management are considered and balanced with cost and time to deliver and that the technical direction is consistent with strategy, principles and design patterns.
5. You will act as the functional and technical expert for the application & tool portfolio within the domain
Who you are
6. You will demonstrate a good understanding of business trends and capability needs for Tier 1 Telco operators.
7. You will possess product architecture knowledge of key components that utilize configurable data.
8. You will have Key Product components knowledge supporting Telco consumer and enterprise fixed and mobile propositions.
9. You will showcase a knowledge of product and pricing, order management, billing, rating and mediation capabilities.
10. You will be a logical thinker and problem solver, able to think outside the box and challenge others to do so.
11. You will have a proven ability in delivering capability roadmaps & funding estimates.