Job Specifications
Solution Architect (DV Cleared)
Gloucestershire (onsite but hours can be condensed into 3 or 4 days)
9 months initially
£89ph LTD/outside IR35
TECHNICAL SKILLS
- CI/CD (eg Gitlab CI, Terraform, Ansible, Helm Charts, Python, PowerShell, REST APIs) - Kubernetes cluster build and application delivery - Application Experience: Apache NiFi, Elastic ECK, Artifactory - Secret Management: Hashicorp Vault Operating Systems (Redhat & Windows)
Job Description
Due to sustained growth and the evolution of the Cyber Division, there is a requirement to increase our Solution Architect capacity for the Above Secret space for internal, Mod and Government in support of our clients Intelligence Solutions business.
We are therefore looking to recruit a Seasoned Solution Architect who can take a bird's-eye view of a problem, making sure all actors, systems and components interact together effectively to meet stakeholders' functional and non-functional requirements. The Solution Architect will act as a single point of accountability for the design ensuring all pieces of the puzzle fit together, avoiding confusion whilst embedding peer reviews and collaboration into daily routines.
You should quickly settle into the culture and customer environment (GOV and UK MOD) and apply their architecture skills to new systems integration projects and across a range of existing systems.
The role will require excellent team working attributes but also requires the ability to take responsibility and accountability for individual to work independently.
Work will take place on customer site
Key Responsibility Areas
You will work within a highly skilled Solution Architecture community and IPT providing technical oversight and leadership for all technical aspects of the team including:
Interpret customers business objectives, concerns, statements of work, and target market for services, to define requirements and key success factors for solutions. Break down EPIC into stories and facilitate the AGILE approach to deliver the solution.
Assess the current and desired state of customer systems and environments.
Understand contextual factors, constraints and stakeholder perspectives including business, user and operations, and define use cases.
Maintain current understanding of IT, security and supporting technologies, supplier offerings and in-house capabilities with which to construct solutions.
Use broad technical expertise and creative thinking to define, evaluate alternatives, develop and communicate solution architectures that address functional and non-functional requirements and integrate with their environment.
Support project, programme and service operations managers in the development and delivery of transformation plans and operational plans that implement solution architectures and provide services, while identifying and mitigating risks.
Develop solutions into high level designs for implementation by engineering teams.
Provide technical oversight, guidance and problem solving to operational and project delivery teams to help maintain delivery quality and resolve implementation, integration and maintenance challenges
You will also be responsible for keeping technical awareness up-to-date with updates in industry including:
Keeping up to date with evolving technology to support technology/solution selection.
Keeping up to date with available qualifications and certifications available for technology utilised across all systems.
Keeping up to date with relevant industry standards, policies, methodologies and frameworks.
Keeping up to date with relevant customer preferred/mandated standards, policies, methodologies and frameworks.
Maintaining a coherent mix of Design Principles/Characteristics derived from the client base and internal practices tailored to specific contracts.
And performing a lead role in driving governance and best practice including:
Providing coordination and oversight for periodic technical documentation reviews in accordance with required review cycles.
Providing coordination and oversight for periodic audits of all assets and equipment inventory including hardware and software in accordance with required audit frequency.
Providing senior technical support to meetings such as Project Review Meetings, Capability Working Group Meetings and Security Working Groups as required.
Performing a lead management role in Continual Service Improvement activities for processes, procedures and working practices utilised by the business unit.
Skills, Qualification & Knowledge Required
The role requires the candidate to be a sole UK National with a current DV clearance.
Systems infrastructure engineering and architecture design including network solutions, storage solutions, virtualisation solutions, Client Server solutions, Windows and Red Hat operating systems, and high availability solutions.
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