Senior IT Infrastructure Architect

Job Summary:

As part of the EMEA IT Architecture Team the roles is the Technical Design Authority and subject matter expert for datacentre centric systems that provide centralised back office services to high profile clients. The role provides advice and guidance to wider teams within the company on a global scale. This position typically works under general supervision and direction. Incumbents of this position will regularly exercise discretionary and substantial decision-making authority.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

- Participate in solution design to ensure fit for purpose and cost effective high level designs against requirements, providing technical documentation to support proposed solutions.

- Work with and bring together cross-disciplined technical resources to form effective technical project teams, managing and influencing these resources to ensure fit for purpose solutions are delivered that adhere to best practice and are designed with supportability.

- Collaborate with Engineering, IT and Test Teams to determine how best to leverage tools and techniques involving infrastructure as code, configuration management and other DevOps-type techniques to improve delivery quality, speed and experience.

- Manage releases through the clients Gateway process including requirements gathering, prototyping, development, testing and deployment in line with IT processes.

- Act as technical interface (including solution oversight) between project teams and specialist IT teams as required.

- Work with Manager to define statements of principles and consistent rules to ensure standardisation and commonality between solutions.

- Keep up to date with Industry trends and customer requirements, the technology landscape and best practices in order to deliver technical roadmaps and plans that ensure the solutions support the wider IT and their strategic objectives.

- Coach, mentor and train other team members and foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.

- Habitually review working practices and performance with a view to improving processes, procedures and general levels of service, ultimately engendering a "continuous improvement" culture resulting in enhanced customer experience and company profitability.

- Provide specialist support/advice on projects as required.

- Conduct work effectively, upholding professional standards and in accordance with company policy, process and standards.,

- Comply with their values and adherence to all company policy and procedures. In particular comply with the code of conduct, quality, security and occupational health, safety and environmental policies and procedures.

- In addition to the duties and responsibilities listed, the job holder is required to perform other duties assigned by their manager from time-to-time, as may be reasonably required of them.

Minimum Job Requirements:

Skills knowledge and experience:

- Strong track record of designing and implementing complex IT related projects.
- Preferably with a background that spans Infrastructure and Software Engineering.
- Practical experience across a wide range of IT systems and technologies, such as server hardware, virtualisation platforms, network and security infrastructure, storage and SAN, and database.
- Exceptional leadership skills and boundless optimism, unwilling to tolerate mediocrity and passionate about being part of a high performing team.
- Significant demonstrable experience with Cloud technologies i.e. MS Azure, AWS.
- Experience of developing clear, concise documentation (design, diagrams. bill of materials, technical and support)
- Experience of designing an implementing 24/7 transactional systems
- A strong track record of leadership and influence as this individual will work across the organisation with multiple and varied technical teams to define, design, and drive the development and delivery of complex technical strategy and solutions.
- PCI-DSS standards knowledge
- GDPR / Personal Data handling standards knowledge

Additional Job Description

The Information Systems function provides the means, methods and solutions needed to support the efficient collection, storage, transfer, manipulation, analysis and reporting of data as well as the need to deliver information for use by decision makers.

Information Systems > Architecture & Solution Integration

The Architecture & Solution Integration Sub Family within the Information Systems job family focuses on the conceptual design, capacity planning, and interface specifications related to data collection. This includes expertise in data loading and maintenance, data integration and processing, building data pipelines, and establishing centralized data stores and databases. Additionally, professionals in this sub family are responsible for ensuring data security measures are in place. They also contribute to platform development and deployment, integrating hardware and/or software frameworks, systems, and/or product design functions. The Architecture & Solution Integration Sub Family plays a crucial role in designing underlying architectures that support one or more product offerings.