FS Architecture & Design, Tech Lead

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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
Serve as the Architecture and Design Authority across IT and FinTech, driving the design and governance of scalable, secure, and innovative solutions across Payments, Cards, BNPL, Savings, and Insurance domains. Align technology roadmaps with Vodafone Group strategy, translate business needs into technical solutions, resolve architectural challenges, and lead the adoption of modern, microservices-based architectures to support business growth and operational excellence.


Who you are

Role:

• Act as architecture and design authority across IT-FS organization. 
• Responsible of aligning Fintech and IT roadmaps with group strategy and guidelines.
• Responsible of designing full-edged solutions for the below Services:Cards, Tokenization, Soft POS, Payments, Settlement & Recon, BNPL, Savings & Insurance.

• In charge of resolving Technology disagreements among different IT teams.
• Responsible of auditing/review IT processes and solution.
• Instruct/follow up on delivery teams to modify them according to IT strategy.

• Lead design for major business and technology projects across IT/Fintech in a way that directly impact revenue, cost saving initiatives and NPS.
• Translate the business requirements into technology requirements.
• Lead Vodafone Group activities that require cooperation with Group Architecture Team(s) and adapting Vodafone Group Products & Services related architecture initiatives within Vodafone Egypt in a way that suit local targets and strategies.
• Manage business requirements planning to make sure they are reflected into technology enablers to be implemented by delivery teams to make sure overall business objectives will be realized.
• Authorized to take necessary decisions to resolve technical conflicts among different delivery functions.
• Lead technical stakeholders to produce system roadmaps that meet architecture guidelines and business requirements.
• Develops detailed programming instructions to solve business problems through automation support.
• Craft the code standards for our products.
• Use modern software architecture techniques and technologies to design , develop distributed, fault-tolerant solutions
• Create and maintain the architecture documents.
• Provide technical guidance to development teams..
• Building FinTech platform and make use of microservices architecture.

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

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

• Engineering or computer science Bachelor degree.
• Engineering master degree is a plus.
• At least 5+ years technical experience in IT.
• Fintech and Payments experience.
• Hands-on knowledge of Microservices, big data technologies, containers, API designing and implementation.
• Software engineering and Design-Patterns.
• Microservices architecture & distributed systems
• Proven Business acumen/Solid business analysis skills.
• Must have worked in at least 2 different Technology areas before.
• Vendor background is a plus.
• Solid development/database knowledge.

Must have technical / professional qualifications:

• Strong decision making/leadership capabilities.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Helicopter view identifying key information and patterns.
•  Innovativeness and ability to generate viable alternatives out of challenging situations.
• Proven ability to work in virtual teams

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.

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, please refer to https://careers.vodafone.com/application-adjustments/ for guidance.

Together we can.