Specialist Cloud AI Solution Data Arch.

About this Role

The AIDA tower is a strategic unit focused on helping local markets migrate and optimize their cloud solutions. We are seeking a Cloud and Ai Data Solutions Architect to lead the end-to-end design of secure, scalable, and highly optimized data platforms across a multi-cloud environment. This role requires a strategic vison to explain to all the stakeholders the complex architectural designs and guide the team to create a solution.

The Cloud AI Solution Architect will be responsible for designing and implementing the architecture of Cloud and AI solutions that align with Vodafone's strategic goals with a clear focus on scalability, robustness, security, modular and reusable components. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to reach the aforementioned objectives.

What you’ll do

Key accountabilities and decision ownership:

• Understand the data, and how to model them inside the BI environment to create values from information, ensuring data quality
• Design and implement AI architectures that align with Vodafone's strategic goals.
• Design and implement decentralized data mesh architectures, establishing robust data contracts to verify formats, ensure data quality, and prevent unnecessary data replication.
• Ensure the scalability, efficiency, and security of cloud and AI solutions.
• Effort Estimation & Roadmapping: Drive the technical feasibility analysis and provide high-level effort estimations (resource, time, and complexity) for local market cloud migrations, ensuring alignment with project timelines and budget constraints
• Establish new data interaction patterns for complex multi-cloud environments, such as optimizing direct cloud-to-cloud data movement to enhance latency and reduce costs.
• Embed FinOps principles directly into the technical design phase, ensuring that cost efficiency is a conscious consideration and a critical metric for business value.
• Design and govern AI Booster-based solutions, defining scalable cloud architectures, CI/CD patterns, security controls, and deployment strategies to enable AI and GenAI use cases across Vodafone
• Act as the bridge between business stakeholders, engineering teams, and platform owners, translating business requirements into production-ready AI solutions while ensuring compliance, governance, and operational readiness.
• Proven technical pre-sales and solutioning skills, with the ability to translate complex business requirements into high-level cloud architecture proposals, effort estimations, and ROI-driven solutions.
• Work with business users to ensure we can support and anticipate company's data needs.
• AI-Driven Architecture: Design and implement AI-powered data solutions

Who you are

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

• Understand business requirements to enhance the systems and provide the necessary data in the best way according to the IT strategy and the business needs.
• ETL development
• Cloud migration and transformation
• Good understanding of Responsible AI & Ethical AI frameworks, EU AI Act. Experience of using RAI frameworks in AI solutions

Must have technical / professional qualifications

• Experience in the end-to-end design and architecture of scalable data platforms in hybrid and multi-cloud environments (preferably GCP, AWS, Azure).
• Experience / collaboration in BI pipeline design projects
• Deep knowledge of modern data warehousing, data lakes, and ETL/ELT orchestration
• Strong foundation in Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform) and cloud security best practices (e.g., principle of least privilege, data encryption).
• Proven track record in FinOps, including cloud cost forecasting, resource rightsizing, and optimizing compute capacity (e.g., Big Query slot allocation).
• Experience in leading complex cloud migrations from legacy on-premises systems (e.g., Teradata, Oracle) to modern cloud hubs.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering and/or other STEM degrees
• Cloud certifications
• Working experience in similar roles
• Attitude to plan and organize work to deliver project as agreed
• Great communication skills and stakeholder’s management
• Fluent English (both speaking and writing) and optional Spanish.
• (Preferred) Knowledge of Cloud Data Architecture for Data Warehousing

What's in it for you

• Hybrid work model
• Bonus on top of the gross salary.
• Meal voucher (Ticket Restaurant), additional to gross salary.
• Flexible working hours from Monday to Thursday, and an intensive schedule on Fridays.
• Intensive Summer Schedule during July and August.
• Up to 20 days per year of 100% remote work from other locations.
• Private Health and Life Insurance fo