Senior Cloud Data Architect: Enterprise Data Fabric GCP

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Business Area: VT IT Ops,Infrastr.&Techn.

VOIS

Posting Country:
United Kingdom

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Full Time

Contract Type:
Permanent

At Vodafone, we’re working hard to build a better future. A more connected, inclusive and sustainable world. As a dynamic global community, it's our human spirit, together with technology, that empowers us to achieve this.

We challenge and innovate in order to connect people, businesses, and communities across the world. Delighting our customers and earning their loyalty drive us, and we experiment, learn fast and get it done, together.

With us, you can be truly be yourself and belong, share inspiration, embrace new opportunities, thrive, and make a real difference.

VOIS (Vodafone Intelligent Solutions) is a strategic arm of Vodafone Group Plc, creating value for customers by delivering intelligent solutions through Talent, Technology & Transformation.
As the largest shared services organisation in the global telco industry with 30,000 FTE, our portfolio of next-generation solutions and services are designed in partnership with customers across Vodafone Group, local markets, and partner markets to simplify and drive growth. With our strategic partner Accenture, we work alongside our Vodafone customers, other Telco and tech companies to drive transformation, meet the challenges of our industry and ensure we stay relevant and resilient.

This partnership is a unique, industry-first model which brings together the best of in-house and 3rd party capability.
We work with customers across 28 countries from 10 VOIS locations:
Albania, Egypt, Hungary, India, Romania, Spain, Turkey, UK, Germany, Ireland, and with a network of teams in Czech Republic, Italy, Greece, and Portugal.
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We are seeking a knowledgeable and forward‑thinking Principal Cloud Data Architect to lead the vision, evolution, and delivery of our enterprise Data Fabric platform on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). As the Solution Owner for the Aether platform, the individual will define architecture standards, influence platform direction, and guide multidisciplinary teams in building a unified, metadata‑driven data ecosystem.

This role sits at the intersection of architecture, governance, platform innovation, and hands‑on exploration. The individual will shape the semantic, integration, and governance layers that enable data connectivity across on‑premises systems, cloud services, SaaS applications and multi‑cloud environments. The position requires close collaboration with Product and Service Managers, Platform Engineers, Data Engineers, and senior stakeholders to develop platform roadmaps, deliver continuous improvements, and enable the organisation to adopt advanced analytics and AI solutions at scale.

The individual will contribute directly to Vodafone’s cloud transformation strategy by ensuring that data platforms are secure, governed, scalable, self‑service, and designed for broad adoption across domains. It is an ideal opportunity for someone passionate about driving impactful architectural change across a global organisation.

Define the strategic vision and target architecture for the enterprise Data Fabric built on GCP.

Develop architectural blueprints covering data integration, metadata management, data governance and data quality.

Design a unified semantic layer to provide a consistent business view of data assets.

Select and evaluate GCP-native and third‑party services required for the Data Fabric’s functional components.

Guide engineering teams in delivering robust cloud‑native data pipelines, including batch and streaming ingestion.

Architect storage solutions using Cloud Storage and Big Query for enterprise-scale analytics and reporting.

Implement Everything as Code (EaC) practices for automated provisioning and management of GCP infrastructure.

Lead the adoption of Dataplex for governance, metadata harvesting, lineage and automated data quality monitoring.

Mentor technical teams and promote best practices…