Java Solution Architect vois

**What you’ll do**:
You will be joining a Digital Architecture team responsible for owning and shaping customer journey oriented full stack Digital solutions for various business demands using modern software architecture patterns. You will also support Technical Architects & and engineering teams with incrementally evolving our stack to continuously improve the user experience, resiliency, re-usability, scalability, and cost management of the components that make up our Digital stack.

We are looking for a Mid-Senior Level enthusiastic and outstanding individual to join us. As a member of the team, you will be instrumental in understanding and analyzing requirements together with Business and portfolio management stakeholders, Product Owners, UX designers, and IT solution architects. As well as defining e2e Digital solutions designs and defining associated NFRs, you will provide support to the full delivery lifecycle as required.

**Who you are**:
**Accountabilities**
- Impact asses new business Demands & Change Requests to provide a ROM (Rough Order of Magnitude) estimates based on a set of documented high-level requirements and solution approach assumptions.
- Work with Product Owners, UX, IT architects etc. to identify key e2e functional requirements & NFRs (Non-Functional Requirements) and support shaping of the e2e Digital & IT solution approach.
- Work with Product Owners & UX to refine the Digital solution requirements and NFRs, and lead on defining the e2e Digital solution design with appropriate input from peers with relevant SME (Subject Matter Expertise).
- Ensure designs respect the principles of the AWS Well Architected Framework with respect to security assurance, resiliency & scalability, solution maintainability etc.
- Protect the integrity & reusability of the solution throughout the lifecycle, keeping it simple where possible.
- Closely collaborate with Technical Architects to define architecture guardrails, UX Teams for UX designs, Product Owners & engineering teams for refinement of Features, and engineering teams and project managers for high level delivery planning.
- Support RCA (Route Cause Analysis) & identifying solution options for complex issues found during delivery or on live service.

**Competencies Essential**
- Extensive knowledge and experience defining solution designs (including key NFRs) for Enterprise scale B2C or B2B services available on the Internet following highly decoupled micro-service and micro-frontend architecture patterns.
- Demonstrable knowledge and experience of REST API standards and API design.
- Demonstrable ability to convey solution designs using industry-standard design frameworks such as UML (Unified Modelling Language) or C4 (Context, Containers, Components & Code).
- Can demonstrate creativity & a drive to identify & make case for new innovative architecture patterns and technologies that could improve delivery efficiency, operational quality etc.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; an ability to communicate with impact, ensuring complex information is articulated in a meaningful way to cross-functional audience.

**Not a perfect fit?**:
**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.

Together we can.