Senior Network Design Architect

Role Title: Senior Network Design Architect

At Vodafone Group we build connections to all our Global operations, acting as an advisory board to drive consistency and customer excellence across 30 countries and for over 420 million customers. We are constantly uncovering tactics to innovate the way we operate, set our global standards or lead our strategic performance. By joining Vodafone Group, you will be part of evolving our digital world of total communications. Now is the time to get on board.

As a bold global technology leader, our products and services touch the lives of millions, as well as lending a huge helping hand to some of the country’s most crucial organisations. 

From contactless payments to connecting emergency services, our technology delivers some truly exciting initiatives, not to mention the incredible connections we make on a global level every single day. We rely on the brightest sparks to help us deliver new innovations. So if you believe, like we do, that technology can help us imagine, create and realise a more connected future – then we need you to help us achieve that goal! 

We’re focused on building the best network, providing a knockout digital experience and giving back the very best to our business customers.  What links us all together is that we are all customer obsessed, innovation hungry and ambitious! Are you?    

Joining us as a Senior Network Design Architect, you can be part of our empowering terminals function. The Future is exciting. Ready?”

Develop and deliver Technology Guidance, and all Network Standards E2E (Access, Core, Transport, Network Service Enablers), Deployment Guidelines and implementation tracking of Standards across Vodafone´s footprint.  Drive Market Adoption of Network Design Standards. Deliver Technology Trials/PoC for evolved Technologies and roadmap evolutions and Performance Analysis.

• Relevant experience in a mobile operator environment in the fields of 2G/3G/4G Mobile Networks, Transport, Core or Network Services-
• Experience in an OpCo or Group in Network Design, Virtualisation, Product/Vendor Roadmap Management, Planning or Strategy teams.
• Proven track record for successful delivery of new technologies and products
• Experience in leading complex international programmes: the role holder will need to be able to work laterally with both Opcos and Group
• Strong Presence – experience in presenting and interacting at management level

• Technical expertise in Network technologies and Standards incl. 2G/3G/4G, Core Services, Transmission and All IP Services.
• Ability to deliver Business cases, TCO models and Standards / Blueprints for new products and technologies.

Vodafone is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the best people by offering a motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognised, developed and rewarded. We believe that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business and we are committed to creating an inclusive work environment which respects, values, celebrates and makes the most of people’s individual differences - we are not only multinational but multicultural too. At Vodafone you will have access to our excellent benefits programme that you would expect from any global company. For any technical difficulties with submitting your application, please contact group.resourcing@vodafone.com

Check out the application process and get to know us better here: https://careers.vodafone.co.uk/technology

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The future is exciting. Ready?