Infrastructure Architect
Infrastructure Architect
Leeds, West Yorkshire
GBPCompetitive salary plus excellent benefits
(Azure, Active Directory, SQL, Exchange, SharePoint)
Infrastructure Architects are required by leading Financial Services organisation based in West Sussex. This role will require a talented Technical Architect to work closely with IT colleagues on both company-wide programmes and smaller, but highly time sensitive projects sometimes involving external clients. You will be keen to utilise your in-depth technical skills to design robust and innovative solutions in line with the group IT strategy. This is a great opportunity to add a tangible benefit to a wide range of IT activities.
Key Responsibilities:
- Maintaining an awareness of the wider environment by creating and communicating standards, governance processes, approved architecture models, systems and technologies deployed and corporate and IT strategies.
- Acting as key resource in the project life cycle, from driving the initiation and infrastructure design, to overseeing implementation.
- Producing high level and detailed technical designs and documentation for complex technical solutions. Mapping requirements onto practical, maintainable solutions, taking into account cost, quality and complexity.
- Participate in Architecture design reviews and other technical governance forums across the organisation representing the infrastructure team across multiple projects.
- Providing ongoing mentoring to others in IT, including support teams.
Key Requirements:
- Sound understanding of broader Data Centre technologies (Server, Storage, Networks, Server Virtualisation etc.)
- Design and deliver multi-tiered application infrastructure, including designing changes to existing services.
- Strong communicator, capable of understanding business requirements and translating them into IT approaches.
- Industry certification and knowledge of architecture and delivery frameworks a distinct advantage (MCSE, CCNA, TOGAF, Prince2).
Technical Ability:
- In depth experience of designing, securing, implementing and supporting enterprise solutions in a primarily Microsoft Windows environment, utilising:
- Microsoft Active Directory spanning multiple forests and sites.
- Core Microsoft technologies eg SQL Server, Exchange, SharePoint.
- Deployment, configuration management and monitoring systems, such as Microsoft System Centre.
- Knowledge of Cloud technologies, ideally Azure.
Please send your CV to ARC IT Recruitment for a full consultation on this position.