Junior Solution Architect

Job description / Role

Role Purpose
- As a Junior Solutions Architect, you will have a range of tasks and responsibilities that contribute to the success of a project. Your role involves collaborating with senior architects and Product Owners, working closely with cross-functional teams, and interacting with different stakeholders.
- Understand and assess requirements arising from the Business and Product Owners to define solutions that align with our architecture strategy and achieve the optimum balance between compliance to requirements and delivery time/costs.
- Contributing to the technical solution architecture strategy and roadmap.
- Responsible for delivering end to end solution designs that meets business needs and requirements.
- Responsible of review IT processes and solutions.
- Follow up on delivery teams to modify them according to approved solution design.

Key Accountabilities & Decision Ownership
- Shadowing and working closely with Solution Architect Tech. Lead.
- Contribute and perform technical Design Activities for all business and technology projects across IT in a way that directly impact revenue, cost saving initiatives and NPS.
- Understand, review and reassemble business requirements planning to make sure they are reflected into technology enablers to be implemented by delivery teams to make sure overall business objectives will be realized.
- Work with Chapter leads across the IT organization on designing solutions and identifying needed technical capabilities and required systems changes.
- Initialize and prepare solution technical documents such as SoW and HLD describing the end-to-end solution architecture and R&R of systems and teams.
- Participate in PoC process of new technical solutions and capabilities.

Requirements

Core Competencies, Knowledge, and Experience
- Clear logical thinker and problem solver, able to think outside the box with a pragmatic approach to solution development.
- A deep understanding of at list one of core IT profiles recommended software Engineering.
- A track record of building reliable and safe development solution.
- Good communication skills, with a passion for new technology and a drive to push your boundaries.
- Strong decision making.
- Helicopter view identifying key information and patterns.
- Innovativeness and ability to generate viable alternatives out of challenging situations.
- Proven ability to work in virtual teams.

Must have technical / professional qualifications:
- Communication, Computer, Telecom Engineering, Computer science or Equivalent bachelor's degree is a must.
- At least 3-4 years technical experience in different IT domains preferred software factory specialized in at least 2 software programming frameworks (preferred Java, SQL).
- Proven and hands-on experience in developing and delivering different IT applications and Services.
- Previous experience in multinational/Vendor companies is a plus.
- Knowledge of Agile principles and methodologies - previous experience working in an Agile Environment is a plus
- Knowledge of different OS/DB types
- Knowledge of Software development techniques, REST web services, SOA, Architecture patterns, and Microservices architecture
- Experience in Integration/middleware domain is a plus

About the Company

At Vodafone, we are known for our technology, but the truth is, it is humanity that drives our business forward. With the global pandemic raising so many questions for tech brands, it has highlighted the leading role that we need to play.

We believe that, when working together, humanity and technology can find the answers and create a better future for all.

Working at Vodafone is all about helping people feel ready to benefit from new technology. We bring the future to even the most remote places, using technology to help families in disaster zones, showing young people that a phone is not just for fun and thinking about technology that doesn’t even exist yet.