Job Title: Cloud Architect
Location: Manchester
About the Job
We are seeking an experienced Cloud Architect with strong expertise in the Banking and Finance domain who will oversee the planning, execution, and successful delivery of projects.
Hybrid Working
The places that the role works from day to day will vary according to the individual's needs and those of the business; it will be a blend of company offices, client sites, and home work, noting that the role will not be able to work at home 100% of the time.
Your Role
* Produce infrastructure design documentation based on a solution architecture to be implemented by a third party supplier.
* Coordinate accurate estimates for inclusion in end‑to‑end project costs and business cases, and assist with estimates for the end‑to‑end IT costs of cooperative bank projects.
* Input to infrastructure solution frameworks and patterns, displaying awareness of external markets and suppliers to ensure best value for money and service.
* Ensure that a clear root cause is established for incidents impacting the deliverables of the infrastructure.
* Act as a technical escalation point and convene troubleshooting teams to ensure rapid identification and resolution of infrastructure issues; provide design inputs to areas such as Mainframe.
* Ensure compliance with design when working with third‑party suppliers, build teams, development and test environment leads across the bank project portfolio.
* Assume responsibility for producing and assuring design patterns and infrastructure roadmaps.
* Provide technical escalation support during the build phase of new production services.
* Lead infrastructure solution design and process improvement activities within an IT operational environment, achieving improved efficiency, performance, and financial benefit.
* Produce and assure infrastructure roadmaps, including networking, Wintel, database, and Connect Direct responsibilities.
* Maintain knowledge of VM Ware platforms and infrastructure, networking, firewall environments, and relevant security technologies.
* Demonstrate excellent communication and influencing skills for liaising with internal management, teams, business partners, customers, and external IT service providers.
* Show strong technical authoring skills, and possess additional technical expertise in mainframe CICS, COBOL, ObjectR, CA Datacom, VSAM, UNIX environments (AIX, Linux, Solaris), Wintel storage, desktop environments, data centre hosting, cloud services, integration, mobile and BYOD, middleware and integration (IBM Message Broker, DataStage, etc.).
* Extensive experience in leading infrastructure solution design and process improvement activities within an IT operational environment.
* Extensive experience in VM Ware platforms and infrastructure, networking environments, firewall knowledge, and all related technologies.
* Extensive expertise in leading infrastructure solution design and process improvement activities with demonstrable results in efficiency gains 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.
Equal Opportunities
We are a Disability Confident Employer and we will offer an interview to all candidates who declare they have a disability and meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.
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