Infrastructure Design Architect

Contract

Basingstoke

3 months +

A national security clearance is required for this role, so ideally you will currently hold clearance - candidates not holding this level of clearance may be considered.

Job Description:

My global IT Services client is looking to recruit an Infrastructure Design Arcitect for an initial 3 month contract.

The Infrastructure Design Architect role will include identifying, designing and delivery complex architectures, strategies and specific solutions, as well as managing a small team.

Responsibilities:

Complete responsibility for technical input to qualification and business approval meetings, designing larger more complex solutions.

Shaping technical proposals to be commercially acceptable to the customer and may make solution/service tradeoffs.

Defining the approach to larger/more complex solution development and acceptance testing, controlling technical scope and the work of the design team in order to ensure an acceptable cost structure. ·

Representing the company at customer forums, conferences, and professional bodies to building its reputation in the market place. ·

Establishing customer requirements for a solution building strong relationships and acting as a major influence in the customer choosing the company. ·

Contributing to the definition of customers' overall IT architecture, designing new solutions of significant size and complexity, and managing the work of specialists contributing to the design and implementation. ·

Shares knowledge with colleagues and makes useful additions to the knowledge base.

Skill Set Required:

Demonstrably operates as the overall infrastructure Customer Solution Architect [CSA] for large, complex solutions.

Regularly has large, complex designs, incorporating trade-offs from the original specification, accepted by the relevant business approval review, without any requirement for design changes.

Authors design and test documents for large, complex infrastructures, whose risk and cost elements are accepted by the overall CSA or Project Manager.

Can evidence regular contributions to customer forums, conferences and professional bodies.

Using company prescribed methodologies, can demonstrate a contribution to the definition of customer overall IT architecture, including new solutions or significant size and complexity and which contain solution components from contributing specialists.

Regular contribution to, and user of, company knowledge repositories and events.

For further details of this role, please forward your up to date CV.

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