Your new company
Join a leading consultancy partnering with a well-established UK financial services organisation undergoing significant digital and operational transformation.
You'll help modernise and enhance critical financial products and services used nationwide, working within a collaborative, regulated environment that prioritises customer trust, data integrity, and innovation. This is a chance to contribute to high-impact initiatives across savings, lending, payments, and member-focused services-supported by a major consulting partner known for delivering complex, large-scale change.
The contract on offer will be working on a hybrid basis (3 days per week on site in Manchester) until the end of August with potential extensions
Your new role
Produce infrastructure design documentation based on a solution architecture to be implemented by a 3rd party supplier.
To coordinate accurate estimates for inclusion in end to end project costs and business cases and to assist with the estimates for the end to end IT costs of the client
Leadership within projects of technical resources and SMEs.
Input to infrastructure solution frameworks and patterns displaying awareness of external markets and suppliers, so that the best value for money and service is delivered.
Ensure that clear root cause is established for incidents impacting the deliverables of the Infrastructure CoE and that these issues are addressed.
Work with 3rd party supplier build teams, development and test environment leads to ensure that solutions implemented across the project portfolio are compliant to design.
Involvement with 3rd parties to design product integration to existing / new solutions.
Act as a technical escalation point and convene troubleshooting teams to ensure rapid identification and resolution of infrastructure issues.
Provide design inputs to areas of expertise such as Mainframe, Networks, Wintel, Database or Connect:Direct.
Responsibility for producing and assuring design patterns.
Responsibility for producing and assuring Infrastructure Roadmaps.
Provide technical escalation point for production services.
Provide technical escalation point during build phase of new production services.
What you'll need to succeed
Extensive experience in VM Ware Platforms and Infrastructure Solutions, Networking Environments & Firewall KnowledgeExtensive expertise in leading infrastructure solution, design and process improvement activities within an IT operational environment which resulted in improved efficiency, performance and financial benefit.
Excellent communication and influencing skills for dealing with internal management and teams, liaison with business partners and customers and external IT service providers.
Excellent technical authoring skills
What you need to do now
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