Technical Architect

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JOB TITLE: Technical Architect

LOCATION: Cumbria

DURATION: Permanent

SALARY: Highly competitive (dependent on level of experience)

CONDITIONS: SC Cleared ideally or eligible to obtain SC Clearance

The Role

Capita Defence & Security Resourcing (CDSR) is exclusively delivering IT infrastructure projects to the defence sector.

We are currently supporting a major recruitment drive and expansion plans to recruit for an ambitious Technical Architect to work with operational teams and project teams to provide detailed designs and guidance on various aspects of infrastructure solutions.

The Technical Architect will be responsible for producing high level and low level designs, and providing guidance and support for transition, transformation and delivery on a variety of initiatives such as SAN migrations, data centre moves, server based computing and desktop transformation technologies such as VDI and application virtualisation.

The Technical Architect will also be applying functional knowledge and technical expertise to design systems that support customer needs.

The role requires candidates to have SC Clearance ideally but will consider candidates who are eligible to attain SC level clearance.

Project deliverables and responsibilities

* To be responsible and accountable for the design of an integrated technical solution across all streams of a project or small programme

* To understand the technical problems, challenges and complexities that exist within each stream or area of a programme and be able to manage and/or liaise with other technical stream leads to arrive at an integrated technical solution that meets the business requirements.

* Promote co-operation, and where necessary, coach and facilitate co-ordination of all technical streams leaders of a programme to achieve the successful delivery of an integrated technical solution.

* Identifies, understands and quantifies technical risk and advises on strategies to mitigate that risk.

* Support the project / programme manager in understanding the technical risks, dependencies and issues that exist, be able to quantify these and the impact that they may have on the project / programme.

* Ensures that all the agreed business requirements to be satisfied by the project are implemented in the overall solution, are traceable and are compatible with the project's technical architecture.

* Support the Solutions Architect to develop and enhance standards, policies/guidelines whilst driving adoption of standards.

* Perform audits, peer reviews and due diligence as required.

* Leverage and influence change programmes to develop/enhance the standards, policies/guidelines whilst driving adoption of standards.

The Candidate

For this role, we are seeking the Technical Architect who can demonstrate the following skills, experience and attributes:

* SC Clearance or eligible to obtain SC Clearance.

* Minimum of 5 years of reviewing and creating design documents as a subject matter expert for infrastructure solutions.

* Technical design, configuration, and implementation expertise within large-scale Transformations and Migrations.

* Strong knowledge and demonstrable experience with infrastructure architecture, implementation and support expertise.

* Expert technical and technical leadership skills.

* Technical risk identification and management.

* Planning and management of technical infrastructure tasks.

* Excellent communication skills, including presentation experience.

* Exceptional writing skills, including documenting solution architectures and support information.

* Strong customer service focus and attention to detail.

* Ability to travel.

* Expertise in two or more core of the Microsoft Products (AD, SQL Server, SCCM/WSUS/MDT, App-V/VDI, Hyper-V, Exchange, Lync, SharePoint and Forefront), VMware or Citrix in a highly resilient environment is useful

Duration: Permanent

Location: Cumbria

Salary: Highly competitive with excellent benefits (dependent on level of experience)

Interested???

Please apply immediately with your most recent copy of your CV, ensuring the start and end dates of past employment are correct.

Capita Defence & Security Resourcing welcomes applications from all suitably qualified people regardless of gender, race, disability, age or sexual orientation.

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