Principal Solution Architect

Company: Vodafone

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 we evolve into a truly digital company, Vodafone Global Enterprise (VGE) partners with large multi-national organisations to find better ways of working through our total communications solutions. We enable them do ‘more with less’ by empowering their people to work more flexibly, simply and efficiently to ensure their business is built on firm connectivity foundations. Across our global fixed and mobile networks, cloud-based hosting platforms, Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, technical expertise and professional services offerings, we can connect global organisations in a rapid changing world to ensure they stay agile and competitive – wherever in the world they do business. Are you now ready to connect your career with us?

Role Profile:

The Principal Solution Architect will lead the most complex end to end technical and service solution for deals with multinational customers – typically requiring multiple design work streams and complex service propositions or even full outsource models.  

Key Accountabilities:

• Capture and interpret customer requirements, and design complex and custom solutions to meet customer requirements. Able to help “sell” the solution by providing clear links between business challenges and solutions as an enabler to solve these.

• Build accurate scalable cost models and provide input into pricing strategy

• Identify and document any risks to the solution, and advise on mitigation approaches in delivery and financial models.

• Lead the development of the document solution in RFP responses, proposals and Statement of Works/High Level Designs.

• Ensure solutions are deliverable in timeframes committed and have passed all appropriate VGE solution governance.  Solutions should be scalable, repeatable, and utilizing existing standard services as much as possible.

• Continuously drives process and business improvement.

Your Profile:

As a Principal Solution Architect you will be responsible for working with sales and directly with customers in order to develop, design, cost, and document the solution to be offered to customers.

Essential: 

• Ability to present to internal / external stakeholders and up to C-level customers in a sales engagement

• Requires a good technical understanding of our capability and wide ranging commercial and financial skills, networking and presentation, influencing/ negotiation skills.

• Interpersonal skills and teamwork with multinational teams.

• Acts as a mentor as appropriate

• Leading virtual solution team throughout bid, with proven skills in building and motivating team through extended and challenging bid cycles

• Analytical and critical thinking, but able to approach problems creatively and offer innovative solutions.

• Detail orientation, operates with precision

• Ability to drive results in challenging and fast paced environment.

What is the key to our success? It’s simple – our people. Across a Global footprint, we believe we’re at our best when you’re at yours. From our diverse workforce, our flexible working policies to our creative work spaces, we embrace a culture of learning and sharing to develop our next stage growth. It’s in our hearts to push forward, to create a better future, to never rest and find new ways that help people communicate. 

We are committed to developing the very best people by offering a flexible, motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognised and rewarded. We respect, value and celebrate our people’s individual differences - we are not only multinational but multicultural too.  That’s what we mean when we say Power to you.

To discover more about how Vodafone Group leads the way in Diversity & Inclusion and hear our CEO Vittorio Colao talk about how he is listed as one of the top 10 men fighting for gender diversity, please click here. 

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