Infrastructure Solutions Architect

Job Description

Infrastructure Solution Architect
Ideal location: Edinburgh (with flexible working)
Other locations: Manchester, Leeds or Halifax (with flexible working)
6 month contract

We also offer flexible working hours, agile working practices and regular home working. We aim to ensure you have a good work-life balance and positive mental health.

What can you expect?
Reporting into a Senior Solutions Architect, you will have ownership for the high-level cost estimation, solution design and design governance of infrastructure solutions across the breadth of the technology space in support of the Group’s IT risk remediation Programme.

How you’ll make a difference…
• Focusing on producing high level solution estimated costs, agreeing & formulating overall solution designs and producing the solution design results & governance artefacts for various infrastructure-led projects covering the complete technology landscape.
• Translate high-level business requirements into simplified technology designs that align to strategic architecture and which re-use existing published technology patterns, in line with Group policies and standards.
• Lead collaborative working to ensure all designs are complete, operable, and satisfy the business requirements with the agreed quality of service.
• Provide ongoing technical support and mentorship through the project delivery lifecycle, providing appropriate leadership to both internal and external colleagues whilst acting as the initial escalation point for technical challenges for your assigned projects.
• Undertake technical impact assessment of project change requests and provide revised costs and/or updated solution designs to align with these.
• Own the technical relationship with other IT & Business Platforms within, building positive relationships and driving solution design collaboration.

What we need from you…
• A technical background with a broad depth of IT infrastructure experience that gives you an understanding of the bigger picture.
• Experience across a broad range of IT infrastructure technologies (e.g. Windows Server, Linux, AIX) and experience in working with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Cloud technologies.
• Experience of managing the needs and developing relationships with of a wealth of different suppliers, partners and customers.
• Ability to prioritise a varied workload.
• Good understanding of IT Change Practices with experience of Agile Methodologies ideal

If you believe you have the experience required, please apply with your CV now for instant consideration!

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