Role Title: Technical Architect
Duration: 6 month contract
Location: Barrow In Furness, Hybrid 4 days onsite
Rate: up to £570.40 p/d Umbrella inside IR35
Clearance required: You Must Hold SC Clearance Active And Be A Sole Uk National (No Dual Nationalities)

Role purpose / summary

The Technical Architect works with operational and project teams to provide detailed designs and guidance on various aspects of infrastructure solutions. The role is responsible for producing high level and low level designs, and providing guidance and support for transition, transformation and delivery on a variety of initiatives such as SAN migrations, data centre moves, server based computing and desktop transformation technologies such as VDI and application virtualisation. The Technical Architect also applies functional knowledge and technical expertise to design systems that support customer needs.

Key Skills/ requirements

• To be responsible and accountable for the design of an integrated technical solution across all streams of a project or small programme
• To understand the technical problems, challenges and complexities that exist within each stream or area of a programme and be able to manage and/or liaise with other technical stream leads to arrive at an integrated technical solution that meets the business requirements.
• Promote co-operation, and where necessary, coach and facilitate co-ordination of all technical streams leaders of a programme to achieve the successful delivery of an integrated technical solution.
• Identifies, understands and quantifies technical risk and advises on strategies to mitigate that risk.
• Support the project / programme manager in understanding the technical risks, dependencies and issues that exist, be able to quantify these and the impact that they may have on the project / programme.
• Ensures that all the agreed business requirements to be satisfied by the project are implemented in the overall solution, are traceable and are compatible with the project's technical architecture.
• Support the Solutions Architect to develop and enhance standards, policies/guidelines whilst driving adoption of standards.
• Perform audits, peer reviews and due diligence as required.
• Leverage and influence change programmes to develop/enhance the standards, policies/guidelines whilst driving adoption of standards.

Behaviours

How we work is as important to IT and Networks as what we do. We want all of our employees to work in line with the Capita Values, but your role is particularly influenced by:

• Being approachable
• Sharing challenges and solve issues together
• Having the courage to think and do things differently
• Not afraid to ask questions
• Always looking for new and innovative solutions
• A can-do mentality and approach to delivery

Key Skills, Qualifications and Experience

• Excellent communication skills, including presentation experience.
• Exceptional writing skills, including documenting solution architectures and support information.
• Strong customer service focus and attention to detail.
• Ability to travel.
• Demonstrable experience reviewing and creating design documents as a subject matter expert for infrastructure solutions.
• Technical design, configuration, and implementation expertise within large-scale Transformations and Migrations.
• Strong knowledge and demonstrable experience with infrastructure architecture, implementation and support expertise.
• Expert technical and technical leadership skills.
• Technical risk identification and management.
• Planning and management of technical infrastructure tasks.

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!