Title: Principal Network Architect
Location: Malvern (Majority is WFH, however occasional planned visits to HQ or customer sites when needed by project)
Duration: 6 months
Rate: £690 per day via Umbrella company
Roles and Responsibilities
- Act as a Subject Matter Expert
- Setting architectural standards, creating reusable patterns, help to shape principles.
- Be able to design new systems, integrate and update current systems, decommission existing systems
- Be able to build working relationships with different parts of the business and manage stakeholders
- Act as a consultant and advisor when working with business areas, to lead work streams and take systems through accreditation processes
- Use cross-business thinking to define strategy and direction
- Take complex requirements and turning into designs (ADD, HLD, LLD)
- Ensure that security and regulatory compliance is part of all design work
- Plan and prioritise work, handing over work to the delivery team
- Work out BoEs and BoMs for the solutions you design
- Have excellent organisational and communication skills
Required Skills
- Be able to translate a design into a set of delivery activities
- Ability to hand activities off to engineering teams for implementation, whilst providing architectural oversight and governance
- Able to undergo UK security vetting
- Be able to travel within the UK working at secure sites
- Ability to work under security and accreditation restraints
- Experience of legacy architecture
- Understanding of how to apply future trends and technology
- Self-organising and self-managing, self-starting
Detailed knowledge / experience of
- Servers and Infrastructure
- Server and storage hardware, clients
- Vitalisation and HCI
- Windows and Linux systems/domains
- Automation and patterns
- HPC
- Design and deployment of HPC systems
If you feel you are suitable for this role, please be sure to submit your CV.
