Responsibilities
* Own the technical design direction across multiple customer projects, acting as the Technical Design Authority from initial concept through to acceptance into service.
* Create and review high-level and low-level designs, collaborating with pre-sales, engineering and architecture teams to ensure clarity, feasibility and alignment with customer outcomes.
* Champion compliance and best practice, ensuring all designs meet Vodafone Three standards for security, resilience, operations and architecture.
* Act as the senior technical interface, providing trusted guidance between customer-facing teams, delivery, engineering and operations to ensure confidence in both the solution and the implementation approach.
* Support platform teams through build, test and deployment, resolving design-related issues, managing deviations and ensuring the final solution remains aligned to the agreed architecture.
Qualifications
* Security clearance: must be able to obtain a UK Developed Vetting (DV) clearance.
* Current DV clearance or eligibility and willingness to undergo DV vetting.
* Strong background in network infrastructure and platforms, having worked with vendors such as Cisco, Juniper and Fortinet.
* Experience designing and assuring customer-facing solutions in highly secure environments.
* Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to challenge constructively and influence at senior levels.
* Proven track record in networks and security with experience delivering customer-facing solutions requiring formal acceptance and sign-off.
* Proactive, self-motivated and able to keep up with rapid technology evolution.
* Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical audiences.
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