Description
Contract: IT Infrastructure Architect (Office 365) - Stockholm, Sweden
Description of assignment:
My client is looking for an IT Infrastructure Architect to create the next generation IT architecture and solutions for open storage and data protection. The main responsibility is to understand the consumers' business requirements and transform these into effective industry best practice solutions to deliver tangible business value. We expect that the person will challenge assumptions to motivate change, identify, validate and grow opportunities. You will be in partnership with consumers, vendors, architects and engineers, for deployment of fit for purpose solutions over time. You will facilitate and lead design and implementation of flexible, scalable and cost effective solutions and provide technical guidance to others.
Main Responsibilities
You will report to the department head and work closely with the domain architect, Lead architect and other architects within the architecture community as well as service managers to ensure fit for purpose infrastructure service and architecture for the bank.
You will have three main projects, besides daily work, while ensuring current service portfolio is up-to-date and well working:
- Create the next generation IT architecture and solutions for open storage and data protection as preparation for upcoming sourcing.
- Accountable solution architect for infrastructure solutions in a project focusing on leveraging Big data and information analytic
- Accountable solution architect for solutions required to establish a third data centre
Desired qualifications
Note! We are looking for an Infrastructure architect and NOT a software architect but experience of both is highly appreciated
To be successful in this position we believe that the person has to have proven IT architectural skills and extensive experiences of managing IT architecture in a complex environment.
You are a team-player with high integrity, able to focus on what matters and have very good communication skills.
The approach shall always be creative thinking and a great user of the collective knowledge available in the teams, willing to deal with all kinds of problems in a solutions-oriented manner. Obviously the person shall have a clear interest in new technologies, trends and how they can enhance the experience for the business.
The person is successful when the infrastructure technical roadmap and architecture is articulated and agreed to by the business and they are satisfied with function.
Other
Initial Start Date: March 2018
Initial End date:
Extension is possible
Fluent Swedish or English is mandatory (can be flexible for the right candidate).