Senior Infrastructure Architect

Netcompany is one of the fastest growing technology companies in the UK, recognised for disrupting the marketplace and helping to transform the IT sector. We deliver IT Transformation and Delivery services to some of the most well‑known organisations in the UK and can count 18% of the FTSE 100 as clients, delivering services across several different sectors.

Netcompany have ambitious growth plans for the next few years and will continue to win and deliver multi-million‑pound projects, offering a fantastic opportunity for all members of staff to grow with us and carve out a challenging, successful and rewarding career

The Infrastructure Architect will be responsible for overseeing the completion of technology components within IT projects. They will perform liaison between technical SMEs and business stakeholders, providing guidance on the customer journey, to ensure that:

• Business goals are converted into a suitable project framework.
• Requirements are robustly defined, in a manner that allows suppliers to be engaged appropriately.
• Technical solutions align with enterprise IT strategy.
• Design collateral is always produced to a high standard, covers the end‑to‑end service and is capable of assurance by the Architecture Governance function.
• Delivery is coordinated across multiple technical disciplines.
• Services are BAU‑ready before they are handed to Operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Acting as the senior technology authority for a specific project or programme, ideally within in a Manufacturing Environment.
• Collaborating with project management teams to interpret business needs and establish project boundaries that will inform the necessary technical specifications.
• Demonstrable experience in the production of technical design documentation, working within a multi‑supplier environment, planning, and delivering quality results within agreed time‑scales.
• Producing holistic service designs, which not only cover technology aspects, but which also address service support, management and maintenance needs.
• Experience across full project lifecycle, from initiation to decommissioning.
• Ability to model current, target and transition states, and define migration methods between these. Ability to decompose these into low‑level tasks, for assignment to engineering teams.
• Understanding of business analysis methods.
• Provision of technical coordination across multiple teams and assignment of roles and responsibilities
• Liaising with business governance functions e.g. Senior Management, Security, Enterprise Architecture, Service Acceptance etc.
• Presenting complex technical architecture solutions to the end customer.
• Ability to oversee the technical delivery of projects to the project manager and engineering team..

Technical Skills

• Windows Server 2016/2019/2022
• SQL Server 2016/2019/2022
• NAS/SAN technologies
• Windows 10/11, SCOM and SCCM
• Client and client server applications
• General networking knowledge
• Knowledge of public cloud platforms an advantage, but not essential
• Knowledge of Oracle RDBMS and MySQL also an advantage, but not essential
• Knowledge of Containerisation technologies (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker, Pod Man etc)

• Knowledge of a broad range of technology solutions, within complex enterprises.
• Experience of Network, Security and Storage technology solutions.
• Appreciation and understanding of Cloud technologies such as AWS and Azure
• Application integration, migration and business transformation.
• TOGAF an advantage, but not essential
• Service architecture, business analysis and service management awareness
• SC Cleared or eligible

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