General Manager - IT Enterprise Architect

What you’ll do

The General Manager - Enterprise Architect is responsible for defining, designing, maintaining and evolving the development and implementation of architecture solutions to particular business cases in alignment with the IT architecture direction and standards.
To support the definition, articulation, and governance of the E2E Architecture in Vodafone Italy. The focus area will be enterprise architecture for Italy.

• Creating target state and interim state architectures
• Define and maintain IT Roadmap for the Group Functions
• Maintaining reference architectures
• Driving innovation
• Shaping new demand, aligning it to our target architecture and manage long term roadmaps and solution catalogues
• Provide architectural guidance to project team and ensure compliance of solution architectural design to the VF enterprise architecture guidelines and principles
• Support: Provide Expertise and issue management in crisis situations for project teams with regards to architecture issues.

Who you are

• Participate in the creation, ownership, and maintenance and publish the IT Architecture and Strategy, including application portfolio, Work with Group Architecture Leads to align Tech strategy, architecture and roadmap to Local Market (Italy), Enterprise Data Model and IT Roadmap.
• Excellent communication skills (both written and spoken). Able to gain influence at senior levels across Vodafone Italy, Partners and Affiliates, Suppliers putting across complex ideas in a simple way. Specific experience and demonstrable capability around the effective presentation of Architecture concepts to a diverse range of stakeholders.
• Sound overall knowledge of applications, integration, and data architecture methodologies and industry best practices with a special focus on cloud solutions.
• Produce, Support & Guide the Delivery of Target, Transitional and Solution Architectures for business and IT transformation deliveries through the appropriate Architectural Artefacts, Deliverables and Communications.
• Digital competencies on vertical domain relevant for Telco:Mobile, CMS, web portal
• Be aware of and capable of using Telecoms, IT Industry and Enterprise Architecture Best Practice methodologies, process, function and data maps such as those used by TM Forum, or defined by ITIL, TOGAF, BPMN, UML, SAFe.
• Integration: ability to define integration patterns in complex architecture for Telco
• Industry experience in Telecoms and rolling out solutions in a large enterprise scale with preferable experience in cloud engineering and API driven architectures. Knowledge of SAP will also be valued.

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

We want you to feel happy and fulfilled at work, without compromising the other things in life that matter to you. There are lots of ways we support this, including hybrid working and generous parental leave. You'll also get four Spirit Days a year to focus on your personal development and wellbeing, plus a host of other great benefits too.

Who we are

You may have already heard of Vodafone - We're a leading Telecommunications company in Europe and Africa. But what you might not know is that we are continuously investing in new technologies to improve the lives of millions of customers, businesses and people around the world, creating a better future for everyone.

As part of our global family, whether that's Vodafone, Vodacom or _VOIS, you'll feel a sense of pride and purpose as you contribute to our culture of innovation. We pursue equality of opportunity and inclusion for all candidates through our employment policies and practices. We recognise and celebrate the importance of diversity and inclusivity in our workspace and we do not tolerate any form of discrimination especially related to but not limited to race, colour, age, veteran status, gender identification, sexual orientation, pregnancy, ethnicity, disability, religion, political affiliation, trade union membership, nationality, indigenous status, medical condition, HIV status, social origin, cultural background, social, or marital status.

Together we can.