Executive Head: Platform Engineering at Vodafone Global Enterprise

Key Responsibility Area

• Drive relentless improvement via Inspect and Adapt workshops; assess the agility level of the ART and help them improve
• Foster Communities of Practice and the use of engineering and Built-In Quality practices
• Work with the Value Management Office on program execution and operational excellence
• Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of platform engineers, providing guidance and support to achieve technical excellence.
• Platform Strategy: Develop and execute a robust platform strategy that aligns with the company's business goals, emphasizing scalability, reliability, and security.
• Cloud Management: Oversee cloud architecture, ensuring efficient resource utilization and cost optimization while maintaining high availability.
• Infrastructure Management: Manage the entire infrastructure lifecycle, including provisioning, configuration, maintenance, and performance optimization.
• Technology Evaluation: Stay updated on emerging technologies, tools, and trends in platform engineering to drive innovation and improve system performance.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with other teams, such as development, operations, and security, to ensure seamless integration and alignment of efforts.
• Security and Compliance: Implement and enforce security best practices and compliance standards across the platform.
• Budget Management: Develop and manage the department's budget, ensuring cost-effectiveness and resource allocation.
• Monitoring and Performance Analysis: Implement robust monitoring systems and performance analysis tools to maintain system health and optimize performance.
• Vendor Management: Manage relationships with third-party vendors and service providers, ensuring efficient service delivery and cost management.
• Deep knowledge of cloud technologies (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Strong understanding of software development and DevOps practices.
• Strong commitment to security, compliance, and best practices.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect) a plus.

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• Educated to degree level in STEM or equivalent working experience.
• Agile Experience including international suppliers or markets – minimum 5 years.
• Excellent problem analysis and resolution skills to support work in reactive and proactive environments.
• Management Experience in a FinTech environment, or at least infrastructure in a financial service environment – minimum 5 years
• Technical experience working with infrastructure technologies – Min 10 years.
• 8+ years of platform engineering management experience at an IaaS company, including demonstrated experience working on enterprise solutions.

Skills

• Design and execute short plus long-term strategic plans to assure infrastructure capacity attains current and future needs.
• Strategic thinker that can relate technology solutions to customer use cases.
• Experience with comprehensive disaster recovery architecture and operations, including storage area network and redundant, highly available server and network architectures.
• Hands-on technical depth enables direct oversight, and participation for complex infrastructure implementation, system upgrades and operational troubleshooting.
• Participate in the formulation of the company's enterprise architecture and business system plans; assessing cost and feasibility, and ensuring the plan is aligned with and supports the strategic goals of the business
• Works closely with and manage strategic vendor partner relationships. Setup and run the Governance with the partners. Build strategic relationships for creating value for the organization.
• Provides platform engineering vision, enables innovation and seeks to leverage IT trends that can create business value consistent with the company’s requirements and expectations.
• Planning, project management and implementation leadership, identifying opportunities for automation, cost savings, and service quality improvement.
• Good understanding of DevOps or DevSecOps.
• Proven experience in the following technologies: server, network and firewall Hardware; Infrastructure Virtualization; Data Centers; VMware; Cloud infrastructure
• Strong data analytical skills, able to identify solutions to complex problems.

Personal Attributes

• Self-starter
• Ability to work under pressure and without supervision.
• Excel at analytical thinking
• An adaptive, empathetic, collaborative, and positive mindset