Technical Architect - VOIS

VOIS (Vodafone Intelligent Solutions) is a strategic arm of Vodafone Group Plc, creating value for customers by delivering intelligent solutions through Talent, Technology & Transformation. As the largest shared services organisation in the global telco industry with 30,000 FTE, our portfolio of next-generation solutions and services are designed in partnership with customers across Vodafone Group, local markets, and partner markets to simplify and drive growth. With our strategic partner Accenture, we work alongside our Vodafone customers, other Telco and tech companies to drive transformation, meet the challenges of our industry and ensure we stay relevant and resilient. This partnership is a unique, industry-first model which brings together the best of in-house and 3rd party capability. We work with customers across 28 countries from 10 VOIS locations: Albania, Egypt, Hungary, India, Romania, Spain, Turkey, UK, Germany, Ireland, and with a network of teams in Czech Republic, Italy, Greece, and Portugal. #VOIS #BeUnrivalled #CreateTheFuture

Define end-to-end solution architecture for enterprise applications, digital platforms, and microservices-based systems.

Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and maintainable technical solutions.

Drive architectural decisions across application, integration, workflow, data, and infrastructure domains.

Produce high-level and low-level design documents, architecture diagrams, integration designs, and deployment models.

Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, security, compliance, and operational standards.

Define API standards, service decomposition strategies, configuration approaches, resiliency patterns, and deployment models.

Ensure solutions meet scalability, performance, availability, and reliability requirements.

Review technical designs and code to ensure adherence to architectural standards and engineering best practices.

Design and implement event-driven solutions using Apache Kafka.

Define topic structures, partitioning strategies, schema governance, retry mechanisms, and consumer group design.

Promote best practices for asynchronous communication, event streaming, monitoring, tracing, idempotency, and message ordering.

Design workflow-driven solutions using Camunda and/or Temporal.

Establish orchestration patterns for long-running business processes, compensation mechanisms, retries, and state management.

Collaborate with business and engineering teams to optimise process automation and workflow delivery.

Define data architecture and persistence strategies using MongoDB and relevant enterprise data platforms.

Establish standards for schema design, indexing, performance tuning, lifecycle management, and high availability.

Ensure data resilience, consistency, and operational efficiency across distributed systems.

Define observability and logging standards for enterprise applications.

Drive implementation of structured logging, distributed tracing, metrics, correlation IDs, and alerting mechanisms.

Support operational excellence through proactive monitoring and production readiness practices.

Provide guidance and technical leadership across architecture, development, testing, and production support functions.

Conduct architecture reviews, design walkthroughs, and governance assessments.

Mentor engineering teams and support capability development across the organisation.

Collaborate closely with product, delivery, operations, infrastructure, and security teams.

Ensure secure-by-design principles covering authentication, authorisation, encryption, and auditability.

Embed performance, resilience, disaster recovery, and operational readiness into architecture decisions.

Support DevSecOps practices, CI/CD adoption, and deployment automation.

Participate in design reviews, risk assessments, and compliance activities.s.

10+ years of experience in software engineering and solution design.

5+ years of experience architecting or leading design of microservices-based distributed systems.

Strong experience working within large-scale enterprise environments supporting critical business applications.

Experience in modernisation, transformation, or migration initiatives.

Strong hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot for microservices and REST API development.

Proven expertise in Apache Kafka and event-driven architecture patterns.

Strong knowledge of logging frameworks including SLF4J, Logback, and Log4j2.

Solid MongoDB experience including schema design, indexing, performance optimisation, and operational management.

Hands-on experience with workflow orchestration platforms such as Camunda and/or Temporal.

Strong understanding of distributed systems, API design, and enterprise integration patterns.

Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, or comparable cloud-native platforms.

Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, version control systems, and deployment automation.

Exposure to observability and monitoring platforms such as Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Splunk.

Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.

Proven capability to troubleshoot and resolve complex technical challenges.

Experience producing architecture documentation, presentations, and review artefacts.

Commitment to engineering excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

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