VodafoneThree - Network Architect, Farnborough

Location: Farnborough/Newbury or regional site (Birmingham, Livingston, Bristol, Northern Ireland). Salary: Excellent basic salary plus bonus and Vodafone benefits. Working hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday). Security clearance: SC required.

• Define and own the architectural direction for network services, ensuring alignment to customer and business strategy.
• Govern design standards, patterns and reference architectures, driving consistency, re‑use and adherence to customer architecture principles.
• Assure solution compliance with security, regulatory, performance and availability requirements, including oversight of risk and remediation activities.
• Provide technical leadership and design authority across engineering, operations and security teams, ensuring alignment to architectural intent and resolution of complex issues.
• Own stakeholder engagement and technical governance, communicating design decisions, risks and progress to internal and external stakeholders.

• Strong experience designing enterprise network security solutions, ideally using Fortinet (FortiGate, SD‑WAN, IPSec/ADVPN).
• Solid understanding of IP networking and secure design, including routing, WAN/LAN and segmentation.
• Experience defining design standards and scalable architectures, balancing customer needs with reuse and consistency.
• Knowledge of security and compliance requirements, including penetration testing, risk remediation, and logging/monitoring integration.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder skills, able to lead technical discussions and influence decisions across teams.
• The successful candidate must be able to obtain and maintain SC level security clearance.

• Competitive salary and bonus; up to 28 days off plus bank holidays; paid time for charity work.
• Personalised benefits including discounts, vouchers, pension plan.
• Career development through learning tools; parental leave policies.

Need to Know: The role is subject to background checks, including criminal DBS and financial checks, in accordance with FCA regulations.