Job Description

Posted 6 days ago

IT Architect

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

Technical Design Authority and Subject Matter Expert for the Monitoring and Operational Support Systems
Participate in solution design for bid and proposal efforts to ensure fit for purpose and cost effective Monitoring and Operational Support System requirements are included, providing technical documentation to support proposed solutions
Work with and bring together cross-disciplined technical resources to form effective technical project teams, managing and influencing these resources to ensure fit for purpose solutions are delivered that adhere to best practice and are designed with supportability in mind
Collaborate with Engineering, IT and Test Teams to determine how best to leverage tools and techniques involving infrastructure as code, configuration management and other DevOps-type techniques to improve delivery quality, speed and experience.
Manage releases through the Gateway process including requirements gathering, prototyping, development, testing and deployment in line with IT processes.
Act as technical interface (including solution oversight) between Monitoring groups, project teams and specialist IT teams as required.
Work with IT Architecture Manager to define statements of principles and consistent rules to ensure standardisation and commonality between systems.

Skills, knowledge and experience:

We are looking for an experienced professional with an impressive track record of designing and implementing complex IT related projects. Ideally with a background that spans Infrastructure and Software Engineering, we are looking for a candidate that exhibits experience and skills in the majority of these areas:

Practical experience across a wide range of IT systems and technologies, such as server hardware, virtualization platforms, network and security infrastructure, storage and SAN, and database.
Exceptional leadship skills and boundless optimism, unwilling to tolerate mediocrity and passionate about being part of a high performing team
Significant demonstrable experience with Cloud technologies i.e. MS Azure, AWS
Experience of developing clear, concise documentation (design, technical and support)
Experience of designing an implementing 24/7 transactional systems
A strong track record of leadership and influence as this individual will work across the organization with multiple and varied technical teams to define, design, and drive the development and delivery of complex technical strategy and solutions.
PCI-DSS standards knowledge
GDPR / Personal Data handling standards knowledge

Education and qualifications

Essential:

Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering, computer science or relation field or equivalent professional experience or combination of both

Desirable:

Current driving license and own car for travelling
TOGAF v9 or later

Skills: