Principal Network Architect (TechOps)
Remote working - (occasional planned visits to client or customer sites when needed by project)
6 Months
A high level of clearance is preferred for this role
TechOps Architect:
- 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 organizational and communication skills
Required Skills
- 10 years' experience in your domain
- 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
- Familiar with Agile methodology and tooling
- Detailed knowledge of change management and governance
- Ability to produce formal technical documentation
- Requirements capture and management
Desirable Skills
- Certifications in your specialist area
- Secondary knowledge, depending on area - e.g. Azure knowledge for Cloud architect, networking knowledge for Server and Infrastructure architect.
- Champion of new technology and solutions
- Ability to use your expertise to deploy novel and unusual systems
- Mentor and coach junior staff
- Knowledge of military systems and networks
- Knowledge of JSPs
- Knowledge of architectural frameworks and tool
- Have SC/DV clearance
If you feel you have the relevant experience and skills required, please do not hesitate to apply now!