Lead Architect

Lead Architect

Location:
Bracknell Hybrid role
- Office and Home Based. Expected to visit the main customer (DC & DR) sites in central London & Aldershot when required.

We are looking for an experienced and well-rounded Senior Domain Architect who is looking for experience delivering in the infrastructure fields covering any number of the technologies listed below. You will be joining a team of diversely skilled likeminded engineers. You are expected to work collaboratively in delivering multiple change requirements within a shared service and project environment. Your role will involve design and delivery of refresh or new capabilities, including when required, leading project technical support specialists, liaise with third parties and other project architects, service and project managers.

• Author or critically peer/quality review technical content of proposals and design documents for complex solution developments, incorporating strategic level risks and remedies.
• Ensure all testable requirements (functional, non-functional, derived) are identified captured in a RCTM/VVCM and are suitable for passing into the test function.
• Develop IT strategies and secure, highly resilient architecture solutions for significant areas of the customers’ business, can work with customers to understand their business strategy and propose technology solutions to meet those business objectives.
• Development of technological roadmaps, proving technical thought leadership to the customer and deriving technology blueprints and solution options to help the customer meet their objectives, achieve desired outcomes or realise intended benefits.
• Collaborates closely with business stakeholders, teams, customer, suppliers, and third-party stakeholders in defining the technology infrastructure, decomposing solutions and systems into components and subsystems.
• Excellent presentation skills with experience presenting up to CxO level.
• Deliver solutions to the time, cost and quality specifications whilst meeting the Customer’s requirements. Ensure solutions meet the defined acceptance criteria or documented handover criteria.
• Provides technical leadership of system delivery by providing, communicating, and evolving the broader technology and architectural view of systems.
• Produce infrastructure/solution technical documents & diagrams (e.g. IA, HLD, LLD, build documents, formal work instructions and test plans) for system change requirements.
• Analyse defects and issues using a structured approach for problems with high to medium complexity.
• Give clear and concise instructions and guidance to others.
• Communicate and manage issues in a timely manner.
• Work with other team architects to reduce risks and improve service.
• Adhere to corporate and local methodologies and processes as appropriate.
• Keep abreast of technology developments within their own specialism.

• Broadcom vMware vSphere /Omnissa Horizon /Microsoft technologies:
• M365 Cloud services
• Active Directory and Group Policy
• Certificate Services
• Windows Server 2019 and above
• Windows 10 Enterprise Desktop and above
• Exchange Server 2019
• SharePoint Server 2019
• SQL Server 2019 and above
• Skype for Business 2019
• Key Management Server and Active Directory Activation
• Distributed File System and Replication
• File Services
• Domain Naming System Server
• Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Server
• Network Policy Server
• Configuration Manager
• System Center Service Manager
• System Center Operations Manager
• Trelix Endpoint Protect /Trend Micro Apex One Security /Nextcloud /Cireson Asset Management /Manage Engine Log
  360 SIEM /IRIS CACADE /Veeam Backup and Restore/Solutions Factory Symphony

• TOGAF
  - The Open Group Architecture Framework
• CISSP
  - Certified Information Systems Security Professional
• CISM
  - Certified Information Security Manager
• AWS or MS Azure
  - Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure cloud computing
• Strong knowledge of Agile, ITIL, and security frameworks (e.g., ISO 27001, GDPR)

Please note:It’s still worth applying even if you do not meet all the requirements above. We are passionate about investing in you and your career and if you have the transferable skills/…