Data Architect

## Who we are: 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 ## About the role: We design, build and operate the digital and technology capabilities that power Vodafone's next-generation products and services. We provide the cloud-native engineering foundations, reusable platform capabilities, APIs, integrations and secure digital services that enable rapid, scalable delivery across multiple customer journeys, propositions and markets.The team provides trusted data foundations, reusable platform capabilities, data products, insight and governed AI that enable scalable customer propositions and reliable operations across markets and partners.Our teams use AI-assisted engineering practices to improve delivery speed and quality while maintaining clear human accountability, security, privacy, traceability and production discipline. The Data Architect is the cross-domain technical lead for data architecture. The role defines and assures a coherent architecture across customer, commercial, Digital, BSS/IT and Network data domains, ensuring that Data Platform and Data Products & Insights work to common principles, contracts and controls. The role is provides objective architectural direction and assurance. Given the responsibilities outlined above, the role includes: • Defining target and transitional cross-domain data architecture. • Establishing domain boundaries, contracts, models and interoperability patterns. • Providing proportionate design assurance and escalating material exceptions. • Balancing strategic direction with delivery speed, migration constraints and portability. ## What you’ll do • Define and maintain target and transitional data architecture aligned to wider solution, cloud, integration, security and network architectures. • Establish domain boundaries, canonical concepts, information models, data contracts and batch, streaming, event and API interoperability patterns. • Define architecture for multi-tenant isolation, privacy, sovereignty, residency, retention, encryption and access control with Security and Privacy. • Provide data-architecture leadership and proportionate assurance within delegated authority; record decisions, exceptions and technical debt and escalate material exceptions. • Evaluate technology and migration trade-offs for scalability, resilience, interoperability, cost and vendor portability, making clear recommendations to the accountable Data Lead. Core competencies, knowledge and experience: • Cross-domain Data Architecture \- Deep experience defining enterprise data architecture in complex regulated environments. • Data Modelling and Contracts \- Strong knowledge of domain-driven design, canonical modelling, semantic patterns, metadata, lineage and data contracts. • Cloud Data Architecture \- Practical expertise in Google Cloud Platform services or equivalent across batch, streaming, storage, processing and AI. • Governance by Design \- Expert understanding of privacy, sovereignty, residency, security, retention and multi-tenant controls. • Influence and Judgement \- Ability to resolve complex trade-offs and influence senior engineers, architects, product leaders and suppliers without line authority. ## Who you are • Extensive experience as a Data Architect or Lead Data Architect in complex cloud-based environments. • Strong practical knowledge of relational, dimensional, lakehouse, event, streaming, API and semantic modelling. • Experience across multiple enterprise data domains; telecoms, Digital, BSS/IT or Network experience is advantageous. • Evidence of architecture assurance, decision records and management of exceptions and technical debt. • Relevant architecture or cloud certification is advantageous but not a substitute for demonstrated experience. ## Not a perfect fit? Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about empowering people 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 still apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another opportunity. ## Who we are We are a leading international Telco, serving millions of customers. At Vodafone, we believe that connectivity is a force for good. If we use it for the things that really matter, it can improve people's lives and the world around us. Through our technology we empower people, connecting everyone regardless of who they are or where they live and we protect the planet, whilst helping our customers do the same. Belonging at Vodafone isn't a concept; it's lived, breathed, and cultivated through everything we do. You'll be part of a global and diverse community, with many different minds, abilities, backgrounds and cultures. ;We're committed to increase diversity, ensure equal representation, and make Vodafone a place everyone feels safe, valued and included. If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, please refer to https://careers.vodafone.com/application-adjustments/ for guidance. Together we can.