Overview
Experienced UK/EU Recruiter | Specialist in Public & Private Sector Talent Solutions | Delivering Top Talent Across Government, Corporate & More.
Responsibilities
* Create the right environment for multidisciplinary teams to succeed, fostering self-organisation, learning, and transparency.
* Provide infrastructure solutions to customer business requirements, mapping at an solution and enterprise levels, leading technical workstreams to implement programme/project requirements and deliverables.
* Define and govern technical standards and principles, guide technology roadmaps, and manage technical dependencies across various value streams.
* Develop infrastructure architecture designs aligned with industry standards (e.g., TOGAF), including proposals, high-level designs (HLDs), low-level designs (LLDs), and other design artefacts.
* Produce publication-quality HLD/LLD, sequence/flow diagrams, threat models, runbooks, and compliance dossiers; curate project wikis (Azure DevOps/SharePoint) as single source of truth.
* Contribute to the development of IT strategies and roadmaps for the enterprise.
* Review and audit existing designs, propose improvements and transformations as required.
* Align with and help to shape Enterprise Architecture approaches and associated frameworks.
* Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to elicit requirements, understanding business objectives and benefits of IT solutions for diverse audiences.
* Participate in the architecture community (company events, industry events, mentoring, training).
* Present complex technical problems at all levels of customer organisations.
* Engage and maintain relationships at peer level across customer and supplier environments.
* Analyse and explain risks involved in adopting certain technology solutions.
* Identify and investigate opportunities for driving value and prepare technical advice and guidance notes.
* Analyse the solutions environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend improvements.
* Work closely with Lead Consultant, Project Managers, and Enterprise Architects to ensure technical and project governance and reviews are conducted.
* Support the production of proposals, bid material, and other artefacts to support winning new business.
Experience
* Experience as an Infrastructure Architect or similar role in large-scale, high-security environments, preferably within Defence or government sectors.
* Strong track record in designing and delivering secure, complex IT and digital infrastructure systems.
* Proficiency in hybrid architectures (on-premise and cloud), cybersecurity, system integration, and infrastructure automation.
* Experience working on digital projects with cross-functional teams (Designers, Researchers, UX, Product Owners, Developers).
* Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and Scrum practices.
* Familiarity with Defence-specific frameworks (e.g., MODAF, NAF) is an advantage.
* Experience implementing enterprise-level architecture in complex, multi-supplier/multi-platform environments.
* Experience designing and implementing secure systems to meet Government Security Classification and NCSC standards.
* Hands-on experience with Azure, AWS, or other cloud platforms; on-premise technologies; identity management; storage; networking; and security controls.
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Information Technology and Business Development
Industries
* IT Services and IT Consulting, Information Services, and Business Consulting and Services
Reading, England, United Kingdom
#J-18808-Ljbffr