Our client is a Global Legal firm who are going through major digital transformation change at the moment. We are looking for 3 Solutions Architects (Infrastructure, ISO27001 and Elite 3e) to join the team for either 12 or 24 months.
Our client is a leading
global law firm and a trusted adviser to local and global corporates, financial
institutions and governments.
Department/Role overview:
The purpose of this role
is to work as part of the Architecture Team primarily in the technology domain.
You will design, document and facilitate the implementation of our client’s
technology, application and enterprise architectures through the various IT
teams and technology partners. These IT Architectures must support the overall
business strategy.
This role reports to the
Head of Enterprise Architecture
Main responsibilities:
- Participate in the development and continuous improvement of:
- application and data architectures that are aligned to the
business strategies
- technology architectures that enable the application and data architecture
- development architectures that enable IT to develop business
solutions in the most efficient and effective manner adhering to our clients IT
Solution Design Principles and roadmaps
- Production of technical solution designs for assigned projects
and gaining acceptance and approval from internal stakeholders.
- Promote an environment that encourages collaboration, team
working and innovation
- Analyse the current architecture to identify weaknesses, develop
opportunities for improvements, and recommend new sustainable best practice
approaches
- Partner with cross functional teams to align architectural
requirements with IT strategy, collaborate on development of policies,
standards, guidelines, and procedures
- Lead technical workshops to ensure that all functional and
non-functional requirements are understood
- Support projects from initial consult through to implementation
- Liaise with business stakeholders to ensure that all solutions
comply with the technical governance framework, with Infosec and risk
principles
- Some travel to attend internal meetings, workshops will be
required.
Essential skills and experience:
- Experience around data
centre components (Servers, Storage, load balancers, firewalls, Networks etc)
- Good knowledge LAN/WAN
within an enterprise network
- Demonstrate good experience in the IT industry with expertise in
many areas of infrastructure and applications, preferably in a technical or
enterprise architecture capacity
- Have demonstrable
experience in design, strategy and architecture related activities
- Experience with sizing, performance and high availability
- Experience with data
backup, business continuity and disaster recovery strategies and technologies
- Any knowledge of integration technologies
- Experience with any automation technologies
- TOGAF certification preferred but not essential
