Gm - Microservices & Api Architect

**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**:
**Role title: GM - Microservice and API Architect**
**Function: Soft Engg Tech VOIS**
**Band: F2**
**Department: Consumer Solutions**
**Reports to: Head of Consumer Solutions**
**Location: Pune**

**Role purpose**:
You will be joining the Digital Architecture team to own and shape the evolving technology and architecture patterns strategy for our Digital product team, API Platform. You will collaborate with the other technical architects spanning web, native apps, chatbot, cloud infrastructure and security, as well as solution architects, development lead. You will work closely with development leads to define its technology strategy & plan the tech improvement roadmap in a collaborative manner. You will also review key delivery outputs to re-align our architecture strategy to learning found during delivery where appropriate, and push for delivery to be re-aligned to intended architecture where required.

**You will**:

- Own and work within current architecture and design solutions, reviews, and modelling
- Engage with Vodafone Technology Digital teams (both with _VOIS and globally) to product and align on best practice.
- Be proactive in identifying areas of technical risk and suggesting continuous improvement to design out legacy and support industry standards where relevant
- Support cross-functional teams to deliver high quality software through clear definitions of success whilst also building trust within teams and empowering them with the right skills and reference materials to be autonomous in a safe manner.
- Identifies emerging technologies to define future architecture with risks and benefits quantification to select evolution roadmaps
- Work closely with the Product team to enhance future product releases and ensure the customer requirements are correctly delivered whilst adhering to the technical standards defined.
- Ensure that best practice security principles are applied and understood, encompassing every facet of security, and not limited to solution design goals
- Ensure appropriate compliance with target architecture and architecture principles by reviewing solution designs ahead of delivery, as well as reviewing the out of key deliverables during the delivery lifecycle.
- Work with engineering leads to ensure that team continues to meat business SLA’s, performance goals & Vodafone security guidelines.

**Key accountabilities and decision ownership**:

- Accountable to our architectural and design standards and their correct implementation within the project
- Accountable for defining security best practice based on industry standards wherever possible and raising risks and mitigations in the correct manner
- Accountable for the discovery, technical inception and design phases of a project
- Accountable for the specification of the non-functional aspects of a project including but not limited to the volume and performance testing scope, scalability, high availability, deployment methods and measurability of the solution

**Who you are**:
**Key performance indicators**:

- High quality documentation covering multiple services across the whole VSS portfolio (e.g. proposals, bid responses, cost models).
- Solutions that meet customer requirements and are approved by stakeholders in accordance with processes.
- Increased knowledge & development of colleagues enabling them to manage opportunities confidently and successfully with mínimal assistance.

**Core competencies, knowledge, and experience**:

- Extensive knowledge and experience designing and delivery micro-service-based API service for and Enterprises scales business to customer service available on the Internet.
- Extensive knowledge and experience designing RESTfull API services, and working knowledge of integrating with open standards for federated authorization and authentications such as OAuth2 and OpenID Connect
- A good understanding of the OWASP top 10, and common patterns to protect against those vulnerabilities.
- Communication skills. Able to articulate, write and present complex matters in a high quality, clear and concise manner that business and technical audiences can easily understand.
- Knowledge of Architecture best practices and design patterns, Mobile Architecture & Technologies, Proven experience of conducting technical workshop, presenting technical solutions, preparing how-to guides, and technical comparison documents.
- Expert in design and implementation of Micro-Services (or Self-Contained-Services) based architecture with E