Technical Architect

Our leading client is recruiting for a Technical Architect to work on a 12 month FTC, hybrid model ( WFH / Liverpool office) The Technical Solutions Architect will be responsible for assessing the impact of integrating and deploying new technologies into architecture, developing statements of architecture work, defining solution and technical design documents with handover to BAU engineering teams for build.

Responsibilities

• Producing Statements of Architecture Work outlining deliverables to the business/project management teams
• Producing high-level solution design documents for review by architecture boards
• Producing low-level detailed technical design documents to be translated into implementation work packages by either the architect or BAU engineering and operational teams.
• Participate in the technology direction for the organisation.
• Solution development and control.
• Infrastructure and Cloud (Azure / AWS) design and governance
• Create solutions prototypes, and designs for new technologies
• Control solution development and development of roadmaps
• Ownership of the governance model and standards for the deployment of new technologies
• Engage and work with other technology teams within the business to develop solutions for future software and hardware solutions.
• Work closely with the IT Architecture Manager to develop technology and project roadmaps
• Keep up to date with new and emerging technologies such as Cloud services and Automation
• Define standards for operational systems maintenance and system deployments

Skills / Experience

• End user technologies and controls such as MDM, VDI and security.
• Able to effectively manage a technical workload, both project and BAU.
• Experience of producing high and low-level technical design documentation
• Requirement gathering & translation to solutions.
• Backup management and planning.
• Office365 and other cloud services.
• Datacentre in the cloud.
• Multi-vendor environment.
• Multi hosted DC environment.
• High availability & DR.
• Design documentation.