IT Architecture & Design Tech Lead

Role Purpose:

•    Act as architecture and design authority across IT organization.  
•    Impact assessment of requirements arising from the Business and Product Owners to define solutions that align with our architecture strategy and achieve the optimum balance between compliance to requirements and delivery time/costs.
•    Contributing to the technical solution architecture strategy and roadmap.
•    Responsible for delivering end to end solution designs that meets business needs and requirements
•    Responsible of aligning Vodafone Egypt IT roadmap with Group strategy and guidelines.  
•    In charge of resolving Technology disagreements among different IT teams.  
•    Responsible of auditing/review IT processes and solutions.   
•    Instruct/follow up on delivery teams to modify them according to IT strategy

Job Responsibilities:

•    Lead technical Design Activities for major business and technology projects across IT in a way that directly impact revenue, cost saving initiatives and NPS.
•    Manage business requirements planning to make sure they are reflected into technology enablers to be implemented by delivery teams to make sure overall business objectives will be realized.
•    Lead strategic technical activities that require cooperation with Group Architecture Team(s) and adapting Vodafone Group P&S related architecture initiatives within Vodafone Egypt in a way that suit VF-EG local targets and strategies.
•    Work with SME’s and  Technical Domain/Chapter leads across the IT organization on designing solutions and Identifying needed technical capabilities and required systems changes.
•    Deliver solution Technical documents such as SoW and HLD describing the end to end solution architecture and R&R of systems and teams.
•    Participate in RFP and PoC process of new technical platforms and capabilities
•    Authorized to take necessary decisions to resolve technical conflicts among different delivery functions.
•    Lead technical stakeholders to produce system roadmaps that meet architecture guidelines and business requirements.
 

Skills Required:

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:
•    Proven and demonstrable Architecture, Development and Technical Leadership skills (within the Telecom industry would be a bonus). 
•    Clear logical thinker and problem solver, able to think outside the box with a pragmatic approach to solution development.   
•    A deep understanding of technical security concepts to protect us and our users. 
•    A track record of building reliable and safe distributed systems, with an appreciation of the trade-offs made during construction. 
•    Stakeholder management (IT, Business) & good communication skills, striking the right balance between complexity, business requirements, affordability, delivery risk, etc
•    Strong communicator, with a passion for new technology and a drive to push your boundaries
•    Strong decision making/leadership capabilities. 
•    Helicopter view identifying key information and patterns.
•    Innovativeness and ability to generate viable alternatives out of challenging situations.
•    Proven ability to work in virtual teams
Must have technical / professional qualifications: 
•    Communication, Computer, Telecom Engineering, Computer science or Equivalent bachelor’s degree is a must.
•    At least 7 years technical experience in different telecommunication and/or IT domains.
•    Deep understanding of the software engineering concepts.
•    At least 5 years hands-on experience in software development using one of the latest development languages or frameworks.
•    Must have worked in at least 2 different Technology areas before preferably in Telcom/IT related domains
•    Hands-on experience in developing and delivering different IT/Telcom related applications and Services.
•    Previous experience in multinational/Vendor companies is a plus. 
•    Previous experience working on large scale and complex IT projects 
•    IT/Enterprise architecture standards, Frameworks, reference models background is a plus
•    Knowledge of Agile principles and methodologies – previous experience working in an Agile Environment is a plus
•    Knowledge of Infrastructure, Cloud, and virtualization concepts and solutions
•    Knowledge of different OS/DB types
•    Knowledge of Software development techniques, REST web services, SOA, Architecture patterns, and Microservices architecture
•    Experience in Integration/middleware domain is a plus
•    Telecom Network Components / Technologies  knowledge is a plus 
•    TMForum /OpenAPIs frameworks knowledge is a plus.
•    AI basic concepts knowledge is a plus.
•    TOGAF, AWS or Equivalent Certifications is a plus