EPM Infrastructure Architect - Scotland - Contract

Perthshire  ‐ Onsite
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Description

EPM Infrastructure Architect - Scotland - Contract

Square One are looking for an EPM Infrastructure archotect to come on board for a 5 month contract based in Perth, Scotland

The primary IT system for EPM is a Legacy Trade Capture system called RT-X. RT-X is being replaced by Allegro from AllegroDev, a package based solution for Energy Trading. However there are multiple peripheral systems for Market Communications, Hedging, Middle and Back Office Settlements and Auditing. The EPM IT por tfolio has a correspondingly complex integration footprint.

The implementation of the new Allegro Energy Trading platform
The maintenance of the existing IT estate ensuring that mandated compliance to OFGEM (Office of Gas and Electricity Markets) and DECC (Department for Energy and Climate Change) initiatives are met. As a Trading organisation there is also mandated compliance to the Financial Conduct Authority. There is also a constant stream of Business As Usual (BAU) change required to maintain the existing estate.
The role is for an Infrastructure Architect to manage the detailed design of the EPM technology estate from a portfolio perspective.

This will involve:
Initial analysis of the inbound change requests and the impact to the current architectural baseline at the technology layer.
High level options of preferred solution approaches with accompanying order of magnitude cost analysis.
Dependency mapping between individual change requests in BAU as well as cross programme dependencies for the Allegro Trading Platform implementation.
Development of architectural views and artefacts to define future state architecture.
Liaison with the lead Infrastructure Architect for EPM and EPM Solution Architects to manage the change through the development life cycle to completion. For
large scale changes there will be a Project Manager assigned whom the architect must work collaboratively with.

Key Skills
TOGAF 9.x -
Infrastructure design for compute, storage and connectivity
Microsoft technologies awareness - current and future EPM systems are predominantly VB and .Net
Oracle DB technologies awareness - current and future EPM databases are Oracle
IBM AIX on P-Series is the midrange UNIX deployment platform for Oracle
VMWare VSphere on HP blades is the WinTel deployment platform
EMC is the SAN technology being
Cisco IP Networking technologies desirable including Firewall configuration
Citrix knowledge also desirable

EPM Infrastructure Architect - Scotland - Contract

Notwithstanding any guidelines given to years of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.

Square One is acting as both an employment agency and an employment business, and is an equal opportunities recruitment business. Square One embraces diversity and will treat everyone equally: Please see our website for our full diversity statement.

Start date
06/04/15
Duration
5 months
From
Square One Resources
Published at
01.04.2016
Project ID:
1101937
Contract type
Freelance
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