Hybrid Senior Technical Architect – Technical Operations

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About the role

  • Design and build the shared Infrastructure Strategy & Roadmap for The Very Group
  • Provide thought leadership, guidance and governance across Tech Ops and other Tribes
  • Create and maintain architecture governance artefacts (patterns, policies, standards, current state architecture)
  • Develop and maintain architectural design documentation and artefacts, including high-level design documents, diagrams, KDDs
  • Accountable for end-to-end designs for shared infrastructure solutions ensuring alignment to business and technical requirements
  • Recognise, surface and document Key Design Decisions, risks, assumptions and constraints
  • Review and approve robust, stable, scalable and manageable designs and maintain component catalogue and reference architectures
  • Work with squads, tribes and 3rd party suppliers to deliver technical solutions and ensure build activities follow approved architecture
  • Provide technical leadership, mentor and coach team members and manage stakeholder and vendor relationships
  • Recommend, deploy and document networking and integration design strategies based on business goals and existing technologies
  • Participate in technical governance to ensure best practice, policy and principle adoption
  • Continuously develop subject matter expertise and evaluate emerging technologies for business value

Requirements

  • Experience of delivering large technology change programmes or projects with multiple stakeholders
  • Proven track record of delivery in both iterative and continuous delivery approaches
  • Expert level knowledge of security, reliability, scalability, high availability and concurrency architectural patterns
  • Expert level solution design experience across the full technology stack, including on-prem, public and hybrid cloud
  • Wide ranging knowledge and experience of Legacy Infrastructures (Windows Servers, Active Directory, Windows Users and Devices, Unix/AIX/Solaris)
  • Knowledge of middleware technologies (Oracle DB, Websphere, Weblogic, Java)
  • Wide ranging knowledge of Cloud Infrastructures including Amazon AWS (EC2, VPC, Security Groups, Direct Connect, S3, RDS, Postgres, MongoDB, Workspaces), Oracle SaaS/PaaS, Microsoft Azure (Azure AD, Intune, Express Route)
  • Wide ranging knowledge of networking technologies (Cisco routers, firewalls, load balancers, LAN/WAN/Wireless/DHCP/DNS, MPLS)
  • Cloud connectivity experience (Equinix ECX)
  • Wide ranging knowledge of security technologies (WAFs, IDP/IPS, NAC, SIEMs such as Splunk, encryption key management, IAM, SSO, MFA, PKI, MDM)
  • Experience designing DR/BC solutions for Cloud & Traditional data centres
  • Expert level experience building, integrating and migrating service/component-based architectures across modern and legacy platforms
  • Practical experience of delivering change in a lean/agile/DevSecOps environment
  • Ability to lead collaboration and influence decision making with strong stakeholder and 3rd party management skills
  • Computer Science degree or relevant experience (education may be substituted by experience)
  • Familiarity with Microsoft Entra/Entra ID and Microsoft Intune
  • Experience with end-user device management (Windows and Mac)
  • Willingness to engage with 3rd party suppliers and vendors
  • Candidates will be required to undertake credit, CIFAS, Right to Work checks and potentially a DBS check

Benefits

  • Flexible, hybrid working model
  • Inclusive culture and environment (see Glassdoor reviews)
  • £6500 flexible benefits allowance to suit your needs
  • 30 days holiday + bank holidays
  • Udemy learning access
  • Bonus potential (performance and business-related)
  • Up to 25% discount on Very.co.uk
  • Matched pension up to 6%
  • More benefits available on the company career site

Job title

Senior Technical Architect – Technical Operations

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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