Azure Cloud Architect

Location:

Crawley, United Kingdomthe company is a global technology leader with more than 83,000 employees on five continents. With over 7,500 people in the UK, operating across defence, space, aerospace, and digital security, we help build a future we can all trust. the company supports the security and stability of our nation by providing extraordinary technology to our customers, as well as delivering social value to the UK with our products and services.

From secure software to biometrics and encryption, CDI technologies and services enable businesses and governments to authenticate identities and protect data, so they stay safe and enable services in personal devices, connected objects, the cloud and in between.

UK Trust Nest is an underpinning capability forming part of the wider UK Digital Competency Centre playing a pivotal role in the company UK’s digital transformation agenda. As a member of the leadership team, you will be transforming how the organisation develops, deploys and manages accredited software solutions to our Customers.

• Act as an industry expert in cloud, infrastructure, and network technologies
• Serve as a leader and subject matter expert to guide the platform team
• Design and architect next generation architectures across multiple domains including storage, compute, network, containerisation, and cloud native applications.
• Build solution architectures that align requirements, reference architectures design patterns and technology standards
• Lead collaboration with project teams, application, data, integration, infrastructure, and security enterprise architects to develop and deploy comprehensive solution architectures.
• Develop extensible architectures to enable future technology agility.
• Provide strategic support to staffing teams and key stakeholders with thought leadership, program design principles and implementation support.
• Research, analyse and recommend technical approaches for solving difficult and challenging architectural problems.
• Provide technical and governance direction to internal and external implementation teams.
• Participates in the vendor request for proposal (RFP), tool selection process and sourcing negotiations for new tools and applications.
• Analyse business process, data flows, IT / technical artefacts’ and extract understanding of how the system or business process works as input into solutions.
• Weighs Risk, ROI, schedule & budget considerations to provide solution recommendations.
• Ensure projects are delivered in-line with Information Reference Architecture, roadmap and to the defined standards and best practices.
• Define and maintain references architectures.
• Lead the creation/socialization of IT strategies and roadmaps within the cloud domain based on business strategy, business and IT trends, and current and future architectures.
• Effectively communicate and influence others towards future state solutions and architectures.
• Maintain technology strategy, vision, architectural roadmaps, reference architectures and engineering implementations.
• Ensure enterprise standards are established and followed while providing consulting on initiatives across multiple projects.
• Explore new technologies and industry trends and partner with the business to experiment and drive innovation.
• Create and maintain training and educational materials and technical position papers for solution delivery teams.
• Support business case development.
• Lead vulnerability management activities working closely with the platform team to initiate remedial action where required, utilising “Secure by Design” Principles.
• Develop security requirements, epics and stories, along with guidance & governance to squads to ensure data protection and data security are included in the scope of new and existing data & digital products
• Work collaboratively with other team member to ensure proposed solutions provide the required level of security assurance in line with data processing requirements, as well as the company and customer risk appetites.
• Embedding the latest security best practice within the development team enabling the principle of…