We are currently recruiting for a Senior Technical Architect based in London.
Pay rate: £750 (Umbrella) £580.67 (PAYE) - per day (paid weekly - inside IR35)
Hours: Full time (36 hours per week) - Hybrid role
Contract duration: Temporary ongoing
Duties:
- Document current "As-Is" and future "To-Be" designs for projects.
- Design solutions
- Create Architecture diagrams and data sets to help communicate the changes occurring.
- Identify technical experiments to validate design decisions.
- Work across projects and with other architects to ensure that all systems align to the Strategic vision and any technical debt identified.
- Ensure that any architectural dependencies between projects are understood, documented and accepted.
Essential Criteria:
- Experience and knowledge of the Government Security Classifications levels and an understanding of the Cabinet Office Security Policy Framework
- Experience of designing system via Architectural Frameworks especially TOGAF
- Understanding of ITIL and Agile methodologies.
- Experience in writing Design Documentation suitable for accreditation at up to IL5
- Experience of working with Accreditor to ensure the design meets the needs of the security standards being applied for IL5
- Able to demonstrate Expert knowledge in the design and build of resilient designs
- Competence in a wide range of the following areas
- Expertise of designing a Microsoft Windows environment with a significant combination of the following key components:
- Expertise of designing a network infrastructure with a significant combination of the following key components:
- Cisco Routing / Switches
- Network Services (DNS/DHCP/NTP)
- Intrusion protection / Detection.
- Expertise of designing solutions hosted on AWS including their Well Architected Framework and Landing Zones (experience of PALZ is a bonus)
- Expertise of designing and working with AzureAD and Office 365 Services
- Expertise of designing a Linux environment within a larger Windows environment.
- Expertise of VMware Virtualisation
- Designing and developing software solutions using some of the following technologies
- NoSQL technologies e.g. MongoDB, Hadoop, etc.
- Expertise of documenting business processes using BPMN (or similar frameworks)
- Understanding of Waterfall and Agile project methodologies.
- Experienced in effectively transferring knowledge and skills to junior staff