Infrastructure Architect

Posted 20 January 2025
LocationLondon
Job type Contract
Discipline Commodities and Financial Services
Reference64674
Contact NamePriyanka Sharma

Job description

Role: Infrastructure Architect
Location: London, UK (3days/week onsite)
Duration: Contract Inside IR35

 

Domain Expertise and Experience

  • Enterprise Architecture and Ecosystem knowledge
  • Experience of working in a large enterprise of our scale and complexity.
  • Experience in organizing and delivering large scale transformation projects and coordinating multiple and parallel streams of work.
  • Experience in planning and tracking progress of projects and managing multiple stake holders.
  • Plan and track the execution of the multiple streams of work in the transformation book of work.
  • Interfaces into the firm’s Project Management organisation ensuring technical delivery within the platform
  • Must keep pace with technology and industry development and  be able to engage effectively with multiple stakeholders to drive appropriate outcomes. Able to respond to changing and/or conflicting priorities

Leadership & Teamwork

  • Sets the pace and operating rhythm, driving a culture of achievement and ensures pace by identifying and removing barriers to technical initiative delivery success. Promotes pace and energy within the team and leads by example .
  • Promotes pace and energy within the team and leads by example .
  • Keeps focus on the medium and long term goals and the Group’s values particularly when under short term pressure.
  • Working collaboratively with peers across domains / disciplines and with vendors / partners to deliver high quality solutions

 

Personal Experience

  • Experience working within large-scale enterprise IT environment and the embedded controls
  • Experience working with both Agile and Waterfall working practices and tooling
  • Experience with change management with specific experience of distributed systems
  • Experience working within a DevOps operating model
  • Experience and awareness of security, audit, risk and compliance within enterprise IT environment
  • Strong awareness of data/product lifecycle, management and process
  • Experience in guiding Technology & Organisation transformation

Personal Skills

  • Ability to work under pressure to deadlines
  • Strong work ethic
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Strong communication skills across all organisation levels
  • Strong understanding of Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture and Ecosystems
  • In-depth knowledge of estimation methodologies and project management
  • Good problem solving skills and adaptable work approach

Technical Skills

  • Concepts – Databases: Infrastructure, Product Lifecycle, Service Management
  • General understanding of distributed databases, e.g. Oracle, SQL Server, Db2 LUW, etc.
  • General understanding/experience of distributed compute environments: linux, windows, storage, networks, security,Backup, Recovery infrastructure, etc.

Looking forward to hearing from you
Priyanka Sharma
Senior Delivery Consultant
Office: 02033759240