Location: Farnborough/Newbury or regional site (Birmingham, Livingston, Bristol, Northern Ireland). Salary: Excellent basic salary plus bonus and Vodafone benefits. Working hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday). Security clearance: SC required.

What you’ll do

• Define and own the architectural direction for network services, ensuring alignment to customer and business strategy.
• Govern design standards, patterns and reference architectures, driving consistency, re‑use and adherence to customer architecture principles.
• Assure solution compliance with security, regulatory, performance and availability requirements, including oversight of risk and remediation activities.
• Provide technical leadership and design authority across engineering, operations and security teams, ensuring alignment to architectural intent and resolution of complex issues.
• Own stakeholder engagement and technical governance, communicating des...