Senior Infrastructure Architect

Senior Infrastructure Architect

Reference: HEM00010X

Location: Hemel Hempstead

Duration: 6 months [initially]

EXCLUSIVE OPPORTUNITY: Intelligent Resource is currently recruiting for a Senior Infrastructure Architect to join one of their key project teams in Hemel Hempstead.

The post holder will work through Intelligent Resource for Sopra Steria, a European leader in digital transformation, providing one of the most comprehensive portfolios of end-to-end service offerings on the market: consulting, systems integration, software development, infrastructure management and business process services.

On client's instructions, due to the urgency, nature and length of the assignment, the successful candidate must have current security clearance to a high level.

Role Overview:

The Senior Infrastructure Architect will act as part of a team that defines the solutions architecture for a pre-sales proposal. The system is a high security, complex system with numerous applications. It is a technical role requiring an understanding of infrastructure configuration, software packages and infrastructure builds.

Key Responsibilities:

• Working with the Pre-sales Solution architects to map out the technical architecture required to deliver the business
• Requirements
• The Senior Solutions Architect will have good working knowledge of Process, Information and Technology disciplines.
• Ability to define and analyse user requirements and advise the pre-sales team on scope and options and improvements.
• Ability to present complex technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Prepares and delivers briefings and presentations for project teams, management and customers as appropriate.
• Development and production of the High level design
• Industry best practice in the business/solutions architecture space
• Produce solution architecture
• Define solution performance and specify requirements
• Produce stakeholder focused models of the solution
• Produce detailed high level design models in Archimate
• Define overall solution architecture test approach / strategy
• Define overall solution architecture acceptance test criteria
• Production of an Archimate model to capture the design

Essential Skills:

• Thick/Thin client infrastructure designs
• Migration from Win 7 to Win 10
• Understanding of the impact of security (NIST) on Infrastructure design
• Infrastructure Architecture and Design Knowledge
• Excellent written and verbal communications
• Archimate modelling
• AD and authentication

Desirable Skills:

• Remote clients over a slow and intermittent network

On client's instructions, due to the urgency, nature and length of the assignment, the successful candidate must have current security clearance to a high level.

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