Lead Solution Architect
Our client, a leading global supplier for IT services, requires an experienced Lead Solution Architect to be based in their client’s office in Wokingham, UK.
This is a hybrid role – you can work remotely in the UK and attend the Wokingham office 3 days per week.
This is a 6+ month temporary contract, to start asap.
Day rate: Competitive Market rate.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead Architect to drive implantation and design across scalable, secure, and robust infrastructure solutions that support end customer delivery of mission critical capabilities
- Develop and maintain the enterprise-wide infrastructure future state architecture, strategy and roadmap
- Ensure alignment of infrastructure architecture with the organisation’s business goals and IT strategy
- Advise and provide consulting for new technologies to improve infrastructure capabilities and efficiency
- Focus the enterprise architecture effort at the conceptual and logical level, and partner closely with enterprise security and infrastructure teams to translate into physical design
- Architecture design – Create and maintain infrastructure blueprints and roadmaps aligned with client objectives and technical requirements
- Technology evaluation – Assess and recommend emerging technologies to enhance system performance, scalability, and security
- Implementation oversight – Lead infrastructure projects to ensure timely, budget-friendly, and quality completion with the Delivery Architecture Teams
- Collaboration – Integrate closely with development, security, and operations teams for optimal infrastructure performance
- Documentation – Maintain detailed documentation of designs, configurations, and processes for knowledge sharing and efficiency
- Performance tuning – Monitor and improve infrastructure performance by addressing bottlenecks
- Security – Design and implement infrastructure with strong security practices and compliance
- Disaster recovery – Develop and maintain plans for disaster recovery and business continuity
- Vendor management – Oversee third-party vendors to ensure high-quality, cost-effective solutions
- Governance – Present your designs to through governance boards both to technical and non-technical board members
Key Requirements:
- Extensive experience in infrastructure architecture with a strong focus on Physical Data Centre implementations, Data Comms Rooms setup and management
- Azure Cloud environments – Azure SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, SAML, SCIM, PKI
- Demonstrated ability in designing and implementing modern workplace and EUC solutions, including Microsoft 365 and Azure Entra ID
- Proven understanding of VMWARE, servers, storage, and data centre modernisation
- Familiarity with IT security principles, architecture best practices, TOGAF framework, and Enterprise Architecture standards
- Leadership experience and proficiency in Project Management or Agile delivery practices (SCRUM / KANBAN)
- Experience in infrastructure and application monitoring technologies (Logic Mon and Dynatrace) would be beneficial
- Ability to rapidly understand the business, commercial and technical requirements to write clear and concise technical designs is vital
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and influencing skills are essential
- Must be able to lead workshops and reduce complex ideas to simple terms and express rationale for decision making to both a technical and non-technical audience
- Experience with complex projects and programmes, requiring highly available, disaster recovery and business continuity compliant systems in a large enterprise
- Exceptional collaboration and team-building skills, with the ability to work effectively across all levels of the organisation
- Strong interpersonal skills & cross-functional collaborations required
- Strong communication and presentation skills, able to convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Excellent organisational and planning skills, with a focus on delivering high-quality outcomes
Technical Skills:
- This is not a hands-on engineering role, but technical understanding and functional experience in any three of these areas is desirable:
- Azure Cloud technologies
- Microsoft Enterprise product suite including VDI solution
- Network solutions
- Server infrastructure including Windows and Linux operating systems
- Databases platforms – Oracle, IBM, AzureDB
- Software Defined Data Centre – Virtualisation
- Storage, Hyper-converged, Converged Infrastructure Solutions
- Backup/ disaster recovery| business continuity
- Knowledge of hybrid cloud architectures
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