Infrastructure Enterprise Architect - Openstack, Azure, VMWare

Work for a leading company within the telecommunications sector and operate as a senior member of a team driving the technology strategy for the capabilities underpinning the applications and services that provide exceptional experiences for this companies people and their customers. Accountable for both interpreting and influencing the business and architecture strategies. This is done by describing the key features or characteristics that the future IT and networking platforms will include to support the future business requirements. Responsible for inputting into the planning horizon to be covered by the enterprise architecture and technology strategies.

What the role will be doing:

• Responsible for contributing to and maintaining an overall technology strategy.
• Responsible for working with colleague's cross functionally in order to provide expertise and advice relating to the effective utilisation of radio assets and services, core networking and services, IT infrastructure services, applications and devices
• The typical planning horizon for this role is 18 months plus
• Alignment of the architecture roadmap of changes to meet business objectives Providing consultation, advice, insight, business case evaluation on future technology trends and innovations, and defines the target architecture blueprint, technology and process that brings the business strategy to life
• Developing and maintaining the overall technology strategy, enterprise architecture roadmaps, reference models and target architectures

Experience needed:

• Strategic experience along with ideally Telco Cloud knowledge/leadership, Virtualisation, on/off premise cloud (Openstack, Azure and VMWare)
• Infrastructure & Architecture background and experience of developing tech strategy and roadmaps - inline with business objectives
• Individual contributor - working cross functionally to provide advice and expertise
• Budget/roadmap & high level architecture design
• Strong stakeholder management

For finer details please contact Amanda Cager - Amanda.cager@projectpeople.com - 07796 302988.

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