Description

Vodafone is embarking on a global transformation of data & analytics,leveraging innovative capabilities of google cloud and are looking for a senior lead of solution engineering function to play a key role in enabling this large-scale delivery.  
The Analytics Lead Engineer will be responsible for the detailed design of all analytics solutions used across Commercial, Finance, Care, Networks and other tenants on the GCP Data Ocean following Vodafone Architecture, Privacy by Design & Security by Design guidelines and bringing industry best practices by working with multiple stakeholders (e.g. Design Authority, Analytics Center of Excellence). 
The lead will work closely with delivery teams (e.g. Cloud Platform Engineers, Data Engineers, Product Owners) on day to day basis to understand requirements and supporting delivery, PoCs and Impact Assessments. 
The role will take a lead in solving common problems with a generic solution design, and oversee strategic products and platforms solutions design across the board . Will also be leading a team of solution architects and engineers, building innovative, cloud native and scalable solutions. Will own the big picture roadmap across analytics programmes and will be exposed to all aspects of solution development across Data Ingestion, Data Warehousing, ETL, Machine Learning and Applciation Hosting

Key accountabilities and decision ownership:  

• Own the overall solution strategy and the end to end data integration solution design for all the Analytics programmes, including data ingestion, transformations, analytics, application hosting and security.
• Own and lead strategic products and services roadmap and solution design. 
• Analyse and translate both business and technical requirements into architectural blueprints. Accountable for solution blueprints of new analytics  demands.
• Deliver high level and low level designs, including infrastructure, networking and security views.
• Line manage, guide, coach & develop the team of Senior Solution Engineers on delivering platforms and products. 
• Strong alignment with architecture, platform, and delivery teams.

Key performance indicators: 

• Effectively estimating project delivery timelines, and delivering milestones on time. 
• Working effectively within and outside the team, and communicating clearly and ensuring operations teams are able to effectively support your designs. 
• Drive critical / high priority integration issues to closure within reasonable time. Support IT delivery to achieve this and while doing so, ensure adherence to the solution design strategy and consistency. 

Essential core competencies, knowledge and experience: 

• Varied, real world experience in designing architecture for, and using GCP. 
• Knowledge and hands on experience with GCP big data tools, such as DataFusion, Dataproc, Cloud Functions, Composer, PubSub, or similar equivalents. 
• Strong experience in designing warehouse structures and analysing data in BigQuery. 
• Strong knowledge and experience infrustrcutre design such as Networking, Security, IAM, VPC-SC, CMEK. 
• Knowledge and experince with minimum one of the following programming languages: python, Java, Terraform, Ansible.
• Good knowledge and experience with application CI/CD, and all aspects of modern software delivery lifecycle. 

Desirable technical qualifications:  

• Certified Google Cloud Data Engineer 
• Certified Google Cloud Architect 
• TOGAF 
• Securtiy Architecture  
• Networking Archiutecture