VodafoneThree - Senior Manager Network E2E Solutions

Location: Newbury + Hybrid Working

Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week – Mon to Fri

Hybrid Working: We believe that through collaboration and connection with our colleagues we can achieve great things. Our hybrid approach allows people to work both in the office and at home, providing flexibility and resources you need to succeed. We don't require you to be in on specific days; instead, we ask people to come into the office 2-3 days each week. You should work with your line manager to understand what their expectations are for you, your specific role and your team.

Who We Are: We’re here to build a network the UK can count on – one that connects people, places and potential. Because no matter where you live, what your background is, or how you get online – we think everyone deserves the same chance to stay connected, and with VodafoneThree, that future’s being built – today. We’re creating more than the UK’s best network. We’re helping close the digital divide, empower communities and drive meaningful progress. We believe that everyone should feel they belong. Whoever you are and whatever your story, there’s space for you here. We’re building a workplace where different perspectives are welcomed, voices are heard, and everyone feels safe to show up as themselves. You’ll join a team that genuinely cares – about each other, about our customers, and about the future we’re building. From day one, you’ll be welcomed, valued and encouraged to bring your whole self to work.

Why VodafoneThree: Join us and you’ll be at the heart of change. That means building responsibly, investing sustainably and creating opportunities that last. We’re not just expanding connectivity; we’re reimagining what a connected nation looks like. With £11bn invested in 5G and digital infrastructure, your work will directly power businesses, services, and communities across the country. You’ll work on real challenges, with real impact, across every corner of the country. Wherever you join us, whatever your role, you’ll be helping to build a future that works better for everyone. We move at pace, because what we’re building matters – and we’re learning as we go. We’re proud of the progress we’ve made, but we’re just getting started.

Job Description: What you'll do: We’re creating something special. We are joining forces to create the biggest mobile network provider in the UK. Through our collective strengths and talents, we will transform customers’ experience and create a best‑in‑class network for coverage, connectivity, and reliability, delivering greater value and more choice for the nation than ever before. This role leads the end‑to‑end technical solutioning of major network and initiatives across VodafoneThree Technology teams (Network and IT). It ensures that E2E demand into Networks for both projects and large commercial bids are shaped with the technical team, ensuring that business requirements are translated into robust, scalable, and compliant architectures, governs the technical design lifecycle from initial scoping to detailed design approval and for E2E projects technically leads all architecture and design issues until launch.

• Translate external Enterprise EDRA/Lighthouse bids requirements into high level solutions, clearly articulating network requirements, identifying E2E architectures and designs and involving key network stakeholders, influencing business decisions on bids submissions.
• Lead E2E solution architects to drive high technical standards for agreed requirements and solution architecture, in collaboration with IT and Network design experts: during project scoping at Gate 0, ensuring business requirements are correctly captured in the identified technical solution for both projects and large commercial bids during approval at Gate 1 when aligning with IT at XAB (Cross Functional Architecture Board) and with network teams at NDAB (Network Design and Architecture Board).
• Post approval technical accountability for projects up to and beyond delivery, resolving all technical architecture and design issues between business and technical teams.
• Build and train the new VodafoneThree E2E solution architecture team planning for succession and ensuring architects produce and maintain high-quality E2E artefacts including Business Requirement Specifications (BRS), Technology Requirement Specifications (TRS), and High‑Level Service Designs (HLSDs) for Gate 2 approval.
• Brief CNO and network directors on key E2E programmes scope and expected deliverables.
• Introduce new ways of working via AI and Gen‑AI solutions to E2E solution design processes to augment output, reduce delivery time and improve efficiency.
• Maintain senior alignment between network and IT architecture roadmaps to support integrated delivery.
• Support compliance with internal and external standards including security, regulatory, and operational requirements.
• Develop all team members to grow their E2E breadth and depth (all Network areas plus all IT areas that are related to Network).
• Obtain XAB (Cross Functional Architecture Board) approval at Gate 1 for agreed requirements and solution architecture, in collaboration with IT and Network design experts.
• Produce and maintain E2E artefacts including Business Requirement Specifications (BRS), Technology Requirement Specifications (TRS), and High‑Level Service Designs (HLSDs) for Gate 2 approval.
• Chair the XAB Technology Design Board jointly with IT, ensuring rigorous governance of solution architecture decisions.
• Represent Network Strategy.