Solution Design Authority

**Solution Design Authority**:
**Location: UK hub location (Blended home working)**

**Salary: Competitive + Vodafone Benefits**

**Hours: Full time (37.5 hours per week - Mon to Fri)**
- Blended

Vodafone UK’s blended working approach means you’ll come to your contracted hub location office as and when needed to get things done for your role and for tasks that require it, otherwise you will be able to work from home. Our ‘Office in a Box’ home-working kit will be available for all who need it during your onboarding journey.

Be part of the Business Technology Solutions for Vodafone UK, the team that design and develop our converged communications solutions, drive efficiency through automation and AI, whilst implement the solutions directly with our customers. We help thousands of businesses across the country with our connectivity solutions.

**What will you be doing?**

This is a senior customer facing role and owner of the low-level customer solution. Responsible for providing technical leadership and support to a virtual team of highly skilled professionals and for detailed customer design, development, delivery and test of complex WAN solutions.

**Responsibilities**:
Technical accountability and leadership of the virtual team responsible for the detailed design, development, delivery, and test of multi-million-pound complex customer solutions working alongside the Programme Manager providing assurance and governance for technical components of the solution.
Low level discovery of existing solution components and owner of the transition from existing to proposed solution
Sign off and acceptance of pre-sales High Level Design and statement of requirements on behalf of the Solution Integration team
Owner of the Solution Integration statement of work which translates the high-level design and requirements into detailed technical deliverables, identifying the risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies for submission into the Programme risk register
Technical risk/issue ownership and management/resolution during solution delivery.
Operate the Solution Integration governance processes and to hold internal and external technical teams to account.

**Who are we looking for?**

An individual who is highly effective technical planning across customer, internal and 3rd Party technical teams
They must be able to build influential and effective relationships with technical, service and delivery teams
Significant experience of fixed product market, in depth understanding of complex customer WAN and LAN solutions with awareness of other enterprise solutions such as UC and Contact Centre.
Proven track record for delivery of large scale, complex projects delivering IT/Telco customer solutions; demonstrable leadership skills and organisational experience

**What’s in it for you?**

An excellent remuneration and bonus package with 28 days holiday entitlement, in addition to bank holidays and paid leave for charity projects. We offer an extensive benefits package that can be tailored to suit you and your family, including employee discounts, retail vouchers, pension plan and share schemes. We’re also proud to provide a Reconnect programme with flexibility to support individuals returning to work after a career break and our market-leading parental leave policies. We’re committed to supporting you throughout every step of your career at Vodafone.

**Together we can**

If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, a sign language interpreter, or assistive technology, please refer to the Accessibility section of our Careers website (careers.vodafone.co.uk) under Career Support, for guidance.