Infrastructure Architect

England  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Intelligent Resource are working with a reputable Retail Bank who are looking to add a Technical Architect to their team.

This role is primarily required to perform IT design activities, across any bank function, channel, product, technology or suppliers as required by projects and programmes, and to support the Senior Solution Architect in providing design leadership, design governance, and management of key design knowledge and artefacts (including operating models, application and infrastructure architecture, IT standards and patterns).

Role and responsibilities:

To be a recognised technical architect with overall accountability for the following in areas of expertise:

  • developing and maintaining architecture principles and standards
  • developing policies, standards and guidelines that direct the selection, development, implementation and use of technology solutions
  • identification and assessment of relevant new and emerging technologies and opportunities that support achievement of stated business goals
  • subject matter expertise in one or more business or technology domains (eg digital, payments)

To be assigned to multiple or complex programmes/projects as the architecture and technology subject matter expert; this includes:

  • innovation and creativity in developing business and IT solutions
  • supporting project teams in business requirements definition and determining non-functional requirements
  • project/programme cost estimating (including total cost of ownership)
  • manage and resolve design issues as and when they arise
  • Acting as the point of escalation if solutions do not meet business expectations, or deviate from principles or the Enterprise Architecture
  • To ensure architecture standards, policies and design and design governance approaches/processes are understood and adhered to

Required Experience/Skills:

  • Experience as a Technology Architect on major change or transformational programmes with a broad range of analytical, design and IT skills, preferably in Retail Banking or Financial Services
  • Experience of working in a complex sourcing environment with multiple, diverse partnerships
  • Well organised and able to prioritise workload in line with tight deadlines and work effectively under pressure
  • Broad experience of all architecture domains (including business, data, applications, integration, infrastructure and security) and reference models, standards and patterns
  • Business and IT architecture design at the conceptual (high-level), logical and physical (detailed) levels
  • Ability to take a strategic view and see the 'big-picture', aligned to the ability to adopt an analytical approach to complex problem solving and consideration of operational implications
  • Good level of project management and delivery skills (eg facilitation, planning, authoring of design documentation)
  • Proven ability to design and deliver flexible, reliable, operable, cost effective solutions
  • Demonstrable experience in architecture standards, services, solution design and implementation, architecture principles and architecture views
  • Demonstrate an ability to think and reason logically
  • Degree qualified, and typically with recognised Architecture/IT qualifications (eg TOGAF, ITIL)
  • Strong relationship management skills
  • Excellent written communication - business and project reports
  • Exceptional communication skills - ability to communicate effectively with anyone in any environment, eg able to translate complex/technical issues to meet the audience's competency level
  • Hands on or demonstrable experience of working with Cloud solutions. Ideally AWS or Microsoft Azure.

Intelligent Resource is committed to barrier-free and inclusive recruitment. We are a Disability Confident recruiter, and a RIDI 100 and Business Disability Forum partner organisation.

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Start date
ASAP
Duration
6 months
From
Intelligent Resource
Published at
25.01.2021
Project ID:
2035746
Contract type
Freelance
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