Solution Designer E2E Solution Design Job in Istanbul Recruiting by Vodafone

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We are looking for a Solution Designer - E2E Solution Design

First things first: Our Brand.

Here are the key behaviours that help us bring our Spirit and Purpose to life: 

• Earn customer loyalty: Small things do matter. 
• Experiment, learn fast: Just take the chance. 
• Create the future: That’s possible. 
• Get it done, together: It’s up to each of us to make it happen.
 
Here, everyone can feel free to be themselves and express their ideas.

We are proud to have the most flexible #hybrid way of working in Turkey. 
Together with your team, you can decide which days to come to the office depending on your work requirements. 

Another favorite: Meeting-free afternoons! Every Friday, arrival of the noon means we can start to take it easy: spend time working on our personal development or catching up with our team. We call this #CumaKafası (Friday mood).

And yes we are Agile! The world is constantly changing. And we cannot afford not to! Our journey began by simplifying our organizational model and transforming into a more agile structure that now we use extensively, especially in our development processes.

Why is this role really critical to us? 

• Lead and manage IOT Platform products/solutions’ lifecycle, determine future opportunities for innovations/change/improvements and create communication channels in order to track user experience proactively
• Lead and manage feasibility and technical design to deliver companywide technical solution with effective management of processes and in line with agreed budgets
• After ensuring all end2end requirements of all parties are understood, deliver most appropriate solution that planned based on requested speed, quality and cost
• Contribute in planning and architectural design activities about related projects and products

How will you spend your time at Vodafone?

• As a member of the squad, solution designer is responsible for all the activities that lead the team to achieve their sprint goals & team KPIs.
• Supports ideation and scoping processes for scoring, feasibility and complexity of the concepts.
• Estimates size of backlog items
• Provide technical and financial (CAPEX) information including effort estimation, constraints and dependencies; highlight potential risks and offer alternative solutions 
• Delivers detailed functional and technical analysis against backlog items in line with solution designers in other squads; handshakes on the specifications of the integrations points. 
• Deliver end to end solutions based on agreed scope of requirements, in line with Group and TR IT’s target architecture and strategy.
• Together with Ops and Infrastructure teams, studies dimensioning for the systems in the domain based on the traffic forecast provided by the business unit
• Works with product owner and solution developer define backlog items (epics, features, user stories, tasks) for the necessary cases
• Supports testers for test case preparation; reviews test cases.
• Provides design support for defects and issues raised by relevant stakeholders regarding the domain under the teams responsibility.
• Execute RFP/RFQ/RFIs when it’s required in projects and evaluate vendor technical capabilities against business requirements to identify products and/or services 
• Works with solution architect to maintain product roadmaps and target architecture 
• Reviews and approves vendor design documents; follow-ups vendor development.
• If assigned as a Lead Solution Designer, drives e2e design activities, ensures e2e quality of the delivery.
• Accountable for the technical vendor management based on the contract that is signed between Vodafone and the vendor.
• Work with relevant stakeholders (IT vendor management, IT Operation, Technology Security, Information Security, Legal teams) during the contract preparation phase in order to identify correct scope, KPIs, terms and conditions. 
• Take necessary actions for the failing KPIs in order to improve performance of the vendor
• Contribute to Group business and technology plans,
• Follow up Group IT implementation recommendations
• Ensure delivery standards, methodologies, processes, and best practices are implemented to ensure efficiency.
• Research to stay abreast of current technology that will keep the team operating efficiently and effectively.
• Contributes developing long-range goals.
• Comply with VFTR’s information security policy, standards and procedures, available under Intranet / Corporate Security Library,

You are just the person we’ve been looking for, if you have:

• Bachelor's degree from Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or any equal to education,
• Minimum 8+ years of solution analysis/design/development/engineering experience, 4+ years of working experience in IOT related projects. Further, the candidate should have at least 2+ years telecom experience.
• Keep herself/himself up to date on IOT businesses, data governance, and good data practices to provide better security and performance in this advancing technological world
• Has some basic understanding of embedded systems. Further experience in data management; programming languages (.NET, Java, or Python) ; embedded systems; network topologies; transport protocols; cloud computing; stream processing; analytics; and application development.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications. 
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems.
• Deep understanding of interrelated enterprise application and integration (such as ESB & API GW, Microservices etc.). 
• Ability to translate business needs, IoT field use-cases into productized solution fully integrated into the enterprise.
• Deep knowledge of and preferably experience in IoT Platform, IoT Gateway, Industry applications and remote monitoring/control areas.
• Deep knowledge of Communication/IoT Protocols (MQTT/S, HTTP/S , Web Service, Restful/SOAP, WebSocket, AMQP, TCP/IP, LWM2M/CoAP etc.)
• Broad knowledge and understanding of technical analysis and design patterns
• In depth understanding of the full software development lifecycle
• Broad knowledge of software technology and development processes, particularly Scrum, Kanban, Test Driven Development, disciplined agile delivery and lean development
• Having experience in high scalability projects involving cloud-based infrastructure design and implementation
• Having knowledge in cloud technologies such as Microsoft Azure / AWS, Docker containers and Kubernetes
• Solid understanding of the Software as a Service (SaaS) model in online environment
• Having experience in creatingreviewing design documents such as CRD, HLD, LLD 
• Very good level of English proficiency

Get to know us

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This role has a #Hybrid working model

Wait for it: Our benefits!

We like to keep them flexible:

• Vflexy: Flexible Benefits Program 
• Hybrid working kit
• Ergonomic kit allowance 
• Digital meal voucher
• Flexible transportation allowance.
• Employee assistance hotline & counselling
• Comprehensive and flexible private health insurance
• Discounted price deals for wide range of products & services 

• This position is located in Ankara.

Plus, plenty more to enjoy!

#LI-Hybrid 

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