Technical Infrastructure Architect

The Senior Technical Architect is part of a team responsible for technical leadership, governance, and infrastructure designs for EQ projects. The role ensures that technical systems and infrastructure are designed to support business requirements, technical and security standards, and technology strategy.

Applicants should have detailed knowledge of IT Infrastructure, covering public cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and on premises data centre solutions. Prior experience as a Technical Architect is essential, along with strong skills in engaging stakeholders, collaborating across a range of technical and business disciplines to agree solutions, and presenting technical proposals and designs to review boards.

The role may require some travel.

Core Duties / Responsibilities :

• Maintaining engagement with the wider Equiniti environment by creating and communicating standards, governance processes, approved architecture models, systems and technologies deployed and corporate and IT strategies.
• Work across a range of EQ projects including data centre to AWS migration, platform upgrades, and new product implementations.
• Act as a key resource in the project lifecycle, driving initiation, reviewing requirements, completing the infrastructure design, and providing technical oversight for implementation teams.
• Support project initiation by providing cost and complexity assessments, engaging with stakeholders, and helping to define the scope of activities.
• Review requirements and undertake discovery activities to propose technical solutions that meet business needs while meeting technical standards for quality, supportability, and cost.
• Produce high quality technical designs and support the creation of build documentation providing effective technical solutions to EQ business requirements.
• Participate in architecture design reviews and other technical governance forums across the organisation representing the infrastructure architecture team across multiple projects.
• Contribute to knowledge management by adding to and supporting the maintenance of infrastructure architecture artifact repositories.
• Contribute to the definition and maintenance of architectural, security and technical standards, reflecting evolving technology and emerging best practice.
• Promote improvements to processes and standards within architecture teams, and the wider technology function.

Skills, Knowledge Experience :

Technical Ability :

Role :   Technical Architect

Industry Type :   Financial Services

Department :   Engineering - Software & QA

Employment Type :   Full Time, Permanent

Role Category :   Software Development

Education

UG :   Any Graduate

PG :   Any Postgraduate

Skills Required

San, Load Balancing, Configuration Management, Agile, Ccna, Windows, Microsoft, Sql, Active Directory, Monitoring