Vonage's API Business Unit is building a modern, lean architecture practice in a small central architecture team that empowers distributed teams to make fast, sound decisions independently. This is a high-impact individual contributor role at the heart of that practice.
You will work across product and platform boundaries, providing the architectural clarity, shared patterns, and strategic direction that connects engineering decisions to business outcomes.
You'll bring structure to complexity, help teams navigate trade-offs, and build the architectural capability that lets the organisation move faster with confidence.
- Define and evolve architecture strategy, reference models, and target states across the Network Power Solutions
- Shape technology direction through standardisation, simplification, and platform investments
- Co-ordinate cross-domain architectural initiatives (resilience, security, compliance, observability, developer experience)
- Champion architecture practices and governance (ADRs, Well-Architected practices)
- Partner with engineering and product leaders to translate business needs into scalable solutions
- Provide hands-on support in solving complex architectural challenges
- Communicate architectural vision and decisions to both technical and business stakeholders
- Mentor engineers and architects while contributing to internal communities and best practices
- Treats AI assisted engineering as a core part of modern software practice, leveraging AI tools to enhance design, coding, testing, troubleshooting, and documentation, while guiding the team in adopting effective patterns and evolving best practices for AI enabled ways of working
Required:
- Demonstrable skills and experience in a senior architecture role with scope across multiple teams, products, or shared platforms
- Demonstrable experience of leveraging architectural practice to steer and deliver measurable business value and reduce unnecessary costs.
- Deep expertise in cloud-native and distributed systems architectures on AWS
- Strong Java experience
- Strong experience with SaaS, API-based, and developer-facing platforms — CPaaS or communications domain experience is a plus
- Proficiency across modern technologies and practices: microservices, Kubernetes, event-driven architectures (Kafka), CI/CD, DevSecOps, and Infrastructure as Code
- Proven ability to apply structured architectural techniques — capability mapping, ADRs, C4 diagrams, in practical, proportionate ways
- Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to align stakeholders and drive decisions without formal authority
- Experience balancing architectural consistency with team autonomy in fast-moving, agile engineering organisations
Experience we consider a plus:
- Experience with Network API's
- AWS, Kubernetes, or related cloud certifications
- Knowledge and experience of working within an Agile methodology.
- Private Medical Insurance
- Group Pension Plan
- Life Insurance and Group Personal Accident
- Ericsson Care Line (EAP)
- Discretionary Time Off (DTO)
- Volunteer Time (VTO)
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Who we are:
Vonage is a global cloud communications leader. And your talent will further help brands - such as Airbnb, Viber, WhatsApp, and Snapchat - accelerate their digital transformation through our fully programmable-based unified communications, contact center solutions, and communications APIs. Ready to innovate? Then join us today.
Note: The purpose of this profile is to provide a general summary of essential responsibilities for the position and is not meant as an exhaustive list. Assignments may differ for individuals within the same role based on business conditions, departmental need or geographic location.
Skills Required
- Senior architecture experience spanning multiple teams, products, or shared platforms
- Experience using architectural practices to deliver measurable business value and reduce unnecessary costs
- Deep expertise in cloud-native and distributed systems architectures on AWS
- Strong Java experience
- Strong experience with SaaS, API-based, and developer-facing platforms
- Proficiency with microservices, Kubernetes, event-driven architectures using Kafka, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and Infrastructure as Code
- Experience applying capability mapping, Architecture Decision Records, and C4 diagrams
- Strong communication and influencing skills to align stakeholders and drive decisions without formal authority
- Experience balancing architectural consistency with team autonomy in agile engineering organizations
- Experience with Network APIs
- AWS, Kubernetes, or related cloud certifications
- Knowledge and experience working within an Agile methodology
Vonage Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Vonage and has not been reviewed or approved by Vonage.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave programs include PTO/vacation, paid holidays, and maternity/paternity leave, with unlimited paid time off highlighted for many salaried roles. Paid sick leave is also available in some cases.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage includes medical, dental, and vision insurance alongside HSA and FSA options. Wellness-related offerings such as gym membership or reimbursement are available in some locations.
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Flexible Benefits — Benefits extend to flexible schedules, work-from-home/telecommuting options, and ancillary protections like legal plans and voluntary auto, home, and pet insurance. Equipment support such as company-provided laptops is also noted.
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What We Do
We’re making communications more flexible, intelligent, and personal, to help enterprises the world over stay ahead. We provide unified communications, contact centers and programmable communications APIs, built on the world's most flexible cloud communications platform.
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