Senior Solution Architect

Position characteristics

We can offer this position as part time job in case of your interest.

We are looking for a Senior Solution Architect who can independently lead the architecture of complex, cross-domain and business-critical deliveries. You will translate business requirements into robust end-to-end solution designs, define integrations across our technology landscape, evaluate options and trade-offs, and drive architectural decisions across business, delivery and technology teams. You should be comfortable working with ambiguity, challenging requirements constructively and ensuring that solutions are implementable, secure, resilient and aligned with Vodafone’s architecture direction.

You will join our strong team of approximately 25 architects in Vodafone CZ IT, mostly located in Prague, partially abroad. The workload will consist of business as usual complex changes on various core systems integrated mainly through Tibco and/or via TM Forum API. As a senior architect we expect you to drive the architectural transformation towards microservices and Event driven architecture.

What will you do here?

• Broad and deep practical experience owning end-to-end architecture for complex, cross-domain or business-critical deliveries.

• Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into robust and implementable solution designs.

• Experience performing impact analysis across applications, interfaces and technology domains.

• Strong integration architecture skills, including APIs, messaging, synchronous and asynchronous integration, and event-driven approaches.

• Ability to define functional and non-functional requirements and assess solution options, dependencies, risks, trade-offs and technical debt.

• Practical experience applying architectural styles and principles such as SOA, event-driven architecture, microservices, API-first design, modularity and loose coupling.

• Practical ability to create component and sequence diagrams.

• Knowledge of modelling approaches such as UML, C4, ArchiMate or BPMN.

• Understanding of the software delivery lifecycle, including Agile or Waterfall delivery, DevOps or DevSecOps, testing, deployment and operational considerations.

• Experience with cloud and hybrid architectures.

• Ability to resolve ambiguity, lead complex architecture decisions and align technical and non-technical stakeholders across multiple teams.

• Professional working proficiency in English.

What knowledge and skills do we expect?

• Experience in the telecommunications industry and understanding of OSS/BSS landscapes.

• Knowledge of TM Forum concepts, particularly ODA and Open APIs.

• Familiarity with enterprise telecommunications technologies such as Siebel, TIBCO, Kafka, Pega or Camunda. Knowledge of every listed technology is not required.

• Familiarity with architecture frameworks and standards such as TOGAF and ArchiMate. Certification is not required.

• Experience using architecture and collaboration tools such as Sparx Enterprise Architect, Archi, Draw.io, Microsoft Visio, PlantUML, Mermaid or Miro.

• Experience with large transformation programmes and complex supplier landscapes.

• Practical familiarity with Domain Architecture concepts. The successful candidate may optionally be assigned a Domain Architect role depending on organisational needs.

• Fluent Czech and English language

And we offer you

• We currently work in a roughly 3 days from home, 2 days in the office mode,
• Here, we address each other informally and aren’t really bothered about a dress code… It suits us all just fine, and we hope you’ll feel good among us too.
• Annual bonus
• We keep up with the times or even a step ahead, so with us you can enjoy 5 weeks of vacation, 5 personal days
• We also think about parents, with 16 weeks vacations for new parents
• If Vodafone, then full on – you will get a mobile phone and a great unlimited tariff, plus 24 000 benefit points per year which you can use in the cafeteria to buy vacations, educational courses or just to invite your dearest to the cinema.
• Option to use the uLékaře.cz service
• We’re located on a metro line – right at the entrance actually – our headquarters are in Stodůlky. You’ll find everything you need in the building and the vicinity for your lunch break or coffee break, and you can even shop in the nearby stores.
• And if you need to shake it off after work, you can grab one of the bikes we rent, or go to our gym located in the building.

At Vodafone, we’re passionate about creating inclusive workplaces where everyone can be themselves and achieve their best. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued - across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, age, genders, gender identities, abilities, sexual orientation, and everything that makes us unique. We want the best people to join us and make their difference, so we will always consider requests for flexible working (such as full-time, part-time, home-working).

Band*: Management
TW Grade:12
* We provide this information in the interest of transparency regarding remuneration. It expresses classification according to internal classification and does not refer to a managerial role in the sense of managing people.