Description
I'm hiring 2 contract Solution Architects for a renewable 6 month assignment based in Gosport. You will be required to join established Architecture Team working closely with customers, external subcontractors, project management and technical teams.
5+ years of Solution/Technical Architect experience, working with multiple technologies as part of an enterprise architecture - complex, large scale, business critical.
Key Responsibilities:
Assist in the provision of high level solution architecture
Generate conceptual, logical and physical architecture documents for a project/program
Contribute to estimation and risk assessments
Provide technical leadership and oversight during change proposal assessment
Contribute to short time-frame change impact assessments, feasibility studies & costed IT proposals and be comfortable with producing architecture models and designs
Negotiate with key stakeholders including prioritisation of projects and resources
Provide technical design assurance for new projects, operational change and enhancements
Identifying and resolving impacts of changes to the technical architecture
Be a point of reference and authority for Solution and Technical Architecture on a program/project
Assist in establishment of the Architecture practice, and the adoption of an architecture and standards methodology.
Report to Enterprise Architects within the Architect practise
Essential Skills:
- Experience in OCI
- Experience of Cloud transformations
- Experience of enterprise systems transformations
- 10+ years of Solution/Technical Architect experience
- Exposure to business critical, high availability design and deployment
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to write clear documentation
- Ability to communicate technical concepts to all stakeholders
- SC clearance
Desirable Skills:
- Certification in TOGAF, ITIL, or IT4IT
- Skilled or familiar with Archimate or UML
- Experience of one or more of the following: Virtualization (VMware and OVM), Windows environment, Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware components
- Experience of major transformation programmes with knowledge of migration to cloud services
- Experience of OCI or similar cloud services delivery