Job Specifications
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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
What does RAN Operations do – RANOPS have a broad scope of managing and supporting the Mobile Network, as well as supporting Technology Operations Service Reporting/Monitoring & Tools Development Portfolio. We turn raw data into useful and informative reporting, tools and automations, that deliver benefit to both internal and external customers through zero touch automations, interactive web Apps and dashboards, data feeds and API’s.
Role Purpose – We are looking for a dynamic & proactive individual who can understand business needs and drivers, to support and deliver on the Technology Operations strategy – with a key focus on Communication, Problem solving, technical skills in Web and DB, and delivering new tools, automations, API’s and machine learning/AI solutions.
The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in software development and problem solving, who can extract the process performance data from workflow management tools, develop new visualisations to present data in a meaningful way, supporting engineering activities and drive the strategy and service improvements within Mobile Operations.
The role requires a proactive individual with highly developed problem solving and analytical skills, who can identify code and performance problems in both technical and process contexts to make Technology Operations more effective. Good communications and presentation skills to communicate your findings and recommendations to senior management is vital.
You will be motivated and focused, can understand business needs and deliver projects that improve the operations of VodafoneThree UK and Technology Operations. In addition, you will be energetic and supportive team player and can work across teams to drive change and help develop new skills in the team.
Key Accountabilities:
Build and deliver on Service Automation & Digital capability as defined by Technology Operations strategy
Design, Build and Support tools and process automations
Influence and drive strategic decisions for the Tools deployed on the Operational Intelligence platform
You will help guide the technical strategy and team discussions on system architecture, component design and improvements
You will liaise with product, business and 3rd parties to identify how we can drive improvements in the quality of our products and services
You will participate in all stages of software development life-cycle, from definition and design to release and post-launch monitoring and support
Support manager to define and drive technical roadmap for team
Identify new opportunities to expand our digital estate to improve service delivered to our customers
Analyse reports/tools to ensure data accuracy and manage plan to resolution where inaccuracies exist
Work with stakeholders to develop and improve tools and services to support their ways of working
Support the team to maintain and manage the tools and processes
Support team members in their personal development of technical skills
Who You Are
Technical / Professional Expertise
Working knowledge of ITIL
Strong Web Development Experience - ideally inc. PHP, Python, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (ES6, JQuery), REACT
Strong Problem solving and analytical experience
Strong working experience of Excel
Experience of code versioning tools
Experience of working in Agile methodology
Understanding of Mobile Networks
Exposure to DevOps or CI/CD pipelines beneficial
Exposure to JavaScript frameworks beneficial (e.g. React, Vue, etc.)
Exposure to AWS/Cloud services beneficial
Customer focused
Proactive individual with a flexible and adaptable approach to their work
Capability to operate in a changing environment and to drive significant changes into the organisation
Strong communication and decision-making skills – ability to balance conflicting interests and priorities
What's In It For You
Yearly bonus: 5%
Annual leave: 28 days + bank holidays + the opportunity to buy/sell/carry over 5 days/year
Charity days: 5 days/year
Maternity leave: 52 weeks: the first 13 weeks are fully paid, followed by 26 weeks of half pay
Private pension: You can contribute up to 5% of your basic pay with 2:1 matching from Vodafone up to 10%
Access to: private medical, private dental, free health assessments, share save scheme
Additional discounts: Vodafone retail, gym, cinema, cycle to work, season ticket loan
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About the Company
VodafoneThree exists to connect people. As a British business with a global outlook, we want our customers to have connectivity that isn't comprised by where they live or what they do.
After all, when we're better connected, we're more effective – as individuals, businesses and communities.
Connectivity is at the heart of everything we do. That’s why we’re investing £11 billion to create the UK’s best network, reaching 99% 5G Standalone population coverage by 2030 and 99.96% by 2034.
With a combined 28.8 million mobile ...
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