API & SOLUTION DESIGNER

Join Us At Vodafone, we’re not just shaping the future of connectivity for our customers – we’re shaping the future for everyone who joins our team.
When you work with us, you’re part of a global mission to connect people, solve complex challenges, and create a sustainable and more inclusive world.
If you want to grow your career whilst finding the perfect balance between work and life, Vodafone offers the opportunities to help you belong and make a real impact.
What you’ll do The Platform Engineering function within Digital engineering provides a wide array of API and MicroServices services.
These include identification & authentication, charging, location-based and self-service capabilities for multiple consumer and enterprise Customers Services around the world and Consumer/Enterprise IoT, Chatbot, AI capabilities and many more.
We enable, orchestrate and expose our Digital Capabilities to third parties and Vodafone Services.
Our Platforms are hosted on cloud based infrastructure (AWS & Google), running 350+ APIs and processing millions of transactions per day.
The monitoring relies on the latest and most innovative Analytics mechanisms and tools.
Our Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) aims to be fully automated, extremely simplified and reliable.
Your strong analytical, functional, technical, problem solving and communication skills are essential for this role, in order to gather information, align with the developers and technical leads & communicate with the stakeholders.
You will strongly influence the governance of the evolution of our portfolio, ensuring the compliance with the technology and security golden rules.
The role will strongly influence the evolution of our roadmap, ensuring the compliance of the globally defined standards within Vodafone.
The API solution designer shall contribute to the analytics roadmap of Platform Engineering.
Act as an API and solution designer supporting our Platform Engineering (API) scrum teams Design, provide new solutions, asses new tools and improve / asses our API estate Work in close cooperation with our off- shore Solution Designer, Systems Architect and Developers Analyses business challenges and technical issues and effectively communicates requirements and viable solutions Works in close cooperation with Microservice and API Designers and off-shore Technical Leads and Developers Identifies the requirements from stakeholders across Vodafone and designs reliable, redundant and high performing APIvand MicroService designs and roadmap Expresses complex concepts in plain language to broad audiences Adheres to technical constraints defined by Architecture guidelines Who you are Must have a balanced mix of technical and business skills Skilled in working with both local and remote stakeholders, skilled in working in multi-national and multi-location teams  Hands-on, with proven hands-on experience to be able to build their own proof of concepts Has a very good analytical and problem-solving attitude with the ability to quickly build credibility in teams Development in IT Balanced mix of business and technical analysis skills.
Deep understanding of API (REST / SOAP) and API integration (including provisioning, login, charging and transaction).
Proven working experience in large distributed & scalable architecture solutions Strong knowledge in internet technologies such as REST, SOAP, GraphQL, JSON, XML, OAuth2, Java Script, Node JS, TDD Has professional experience and knowledge of.
Enterprise solutions and architectures (i.
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cloud, big data, virtualization, storage, etc.)  Development and design best practices and design patterns.
Proven experience of conducting technical workshop, presenting technical solutions, preparing how-to guides, and technical comparison documents.
Design and development tools, and capable of suggesting new tools/process.
Familiar with the design, development and implementation of APIs.
Passionate about simple and clean design and code (secure by design) Worked in Agile teams and organizations (Scrum and/or Kanban)  Technical degree or equivalent working experience  Very good, fluent business English skills, spoken and in writing API Gateways.
Apigee OPDK API Gateway; Apigee Edge; Expertise on other API gateways of benefit  (e.
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Apigee OPDK, X Hybrid, KongHQ, Amazon API Gateway) Monitoring and Alarming of Services and Resources.
Instana; Dynatrace; PagerDuty; AWS CloudWatch; Datadog Not a perfect fit? Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about empowering people and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background.
If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to still apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another opportunity.
What's in it for you Hybrid Work Model - Flexible hybrid work model with 8-10 in-office days per month, managed by team leaders Vodafone Products and Services - Employees get a mobile phone, free communication plan, data card, and various discounts on services and products Recognition - Recognition programs for innovative, creative, high-potential employees and exemplary behaviors Health and Well-being - Well-being Program offers nutrition and psychological consultations, webinars, workshops, and discounts on various services and products Learning - Access to Communities of Practice and a customizable digital training platform with high-quality content (namely Harvard Business Publishing and Skillsoft) Local and International Mobility - Internal recruitment with local and international rotation opportunities across departments and roles Who we are We are a leading international Telco, serving millions of customers.
At Vodafone, we believe that connectivity is a force for good.
If we use it for the things that really matter, it can improve people's lives and the world around us.
Through our technology we empower people, connecting everyone regardless of who they are or where they live and we protect the planet, whilst helping our customers do the same.
Belonging at Vodafone isn't a concept; it's lived, breathed, and cultivated through everything we do.
You'll be part of a global and diverse community, with many different minds, abilities, backgrounds and cultures.;We're committed to increase diversity, ensure equal representation, and make Vodafone a place everyone feels safe, valued and included.
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odafone.
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Together we can.
Vodafone is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the very best people by offering a motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognised and rewarded.
We are committed to promoting Inclusion for All with the belief that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business.
We actively encourage everyone to consider becoming a part of our journey.