Job Description

Join Us
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.
Joining Vodafone IoT's team means being part of a growing, purpose-driven organisation at the forefront of innovation. Our teams are made up of curious minds, problem-solvers, and forward-thinkers across the world who thrive in a collaborative, high-performing, inclusive environment.
What you'll do
In this senior leadership role, you'll shape how Vodafone IoT's Platform Engineering organisation works at scale-setting clear engineering standards, governance and ways of working that help teams deliver value safely, reliably and efficiently. You'll work closely with Technology and Business leaders to drive focus and prioritisation across the portfolio, ensuring Platform Engineering is doing the right things (strategy and governance) and doing things right (operating model, performance management and continuous improvement).
You'll lead high-impact transformation and effectiveness programmes across DevSecOps, SRE, CI/CD and quality practices, helping teams automate more, improve reliability and reduce incident impact. You'll also strengthen end-to-end operational excellence, including incident/problem management, vulnerability management, audit readiness and compliance with privacy and regulatory standards.
With ownership across portfolio governance-including budget planning and cost optimisation-you'll influence how we invest, how we partner with suppliers, and how we build workforce capability. You'll oversee KTLO portfolio management, vendor strategy and business planning, while coaching and developing leaders in a geographically distributed environment. With 3-5 direct reports and broad dotted-line influence across ~150+ engineers, your impact will be enterprise-wide across IoT Platform Engineering.
Who you are

• A strategic engineering leader who enjoys improving how organisations operate, not just what they deliver-bringing strong governance, planning and decision-making skills across complex portfolios.
• Proven experience leading large-scale engineering effectiveness or transformation initiatives (e.g., platform modernisation, operating model changes, insourcing/outsourcing, vendor transitions) and navigating complex stakeholder environments.
• Deep understanding of modern engineering practices such as DevSecOps, SRE, CI/CD, quality engineering and FinOps/cost-to-serve thinking, with the ability to codify standards and measure adoption.
• Strong business and financial acumen, including experience with budget planning, cost optimisation, workforce strategy and supplier/partner management (RFP/RFQ/RFI exposure is a plus).
• Confident leading and developing diverse, geographically distributed teams-coaching, mentoring and creating an inclusive, continuous-learning culture.
• Excellent communication skills, able to translate complex technical topics into clear, concise messages for senior non-technical audiences.
• Typically 10+ years in engineering and/or operations, with 5+ years in leadership roles covering strategy and budgeting, plus a bachelor's or master's degree (or equivalent practical experience).

Not a perfect fit?
Worried that you don't meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about empowering people and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to still apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another opportunity.
What's in it for you
We want you to feel happy and fulfilled at work, without compromising the other things in life that matter to you. There are lots of ways we support this, including hybrid working and generous parental leave. You'll also get Spirit Days in a year to focus on your personal development and wellbeing, plus a host of other great benefits too.

• Discretionary yearly bonus: 20%
• Car allowance
• Annual leave: 28 days + bank holidays
• Enjoy working up to 20 days a year from abroad
• Charity days
• Wellbeing: Spirit Days to focus on wellbeing and personal development
• Maternity leave: 52 weeks out of which the first 13 weeks are fully paid followed by 26 weeks of half pay and 6 months - working 4 days, getting paid 5
• Paternity leave: 16 weeks fully paid
• Private pension: You can contribute up to 5% of your basic pay with 2:1 matching from Vodafone up to 10%.
• Voluntary Private Medical and Dental insurance plans.
• Additional discounts: Vodafone retail, gym, cinema, cycle to work, season ticket loan

Who we are
With more than 200 million device connections around the world, Vodafone IoT is a global leader in managed IoT connectivity - connecting people, places and devices. We help create a smarter, more sustainable, and more connected world - from enabling smart cities and autonomous vehicles to transforming healthcare, agriculture, and logistics. Our work shapes the digital future of businesses - allowing them to effectively manage and monitor their operations using IoT. As a global leader in IoT connectivity - operating in more than 180 countries across the globe - we empower individuals, businesses, and entire industries to unlock their potential through technology that's secure, scalable, and future-ready. Vodafone IoT is a subsidiary of Vodafone Group.
Vodafone Group is a leading international Telco, serving millions of customers. At Vodafone, we believe that connectivity is a force for good. If we use it for the things that really matter, it can improve people's lives and the world around us. Through our technology we empower people, connecting everyone regardless of who they are or where they live and we protect the planet, whilst helping our customers do the same.
Belonging at Vodafone isn't a concept; it's lived, breathed, and cultivated through everything we do. You'll be part of a global and diverse community, with many different minds, abilities, backgrounds and cultures. We're committed to increase diversity, ensure equal representation, and make Vodafone a place everyone feels safe, valued and included.
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Together we can.
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Vodafone is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the very best people by offering a motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognised and rewarded. We are committed to promoting Inclusion for All with the belief that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business. We actively encourage everyone to consider becoming a part of our journey.

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