Required Skills
- iaas
- paas
- aws
- azure
- private cloud
Job Summary
Enterprise Architect – Contract - London Hybrid
Location: London (Liverpool Street Office, 1-2 days per week)
Duration: 6 Months
Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced Enterprise
Architect / Practice Lead to join a major transformation initiative. You will take ownership of private cloud, public IaaS/PaaS (AWS and Azure) , networking, and digital workplace services, ensuring all transformation strategies and project deliveries comply with best practices and uniform global standards.This is a high-impact, client-facing role that bridges pre-sales, solutioning, and hands‑on technical design . You will lead architectural alignment between regional business stakeholders and the Global Technology organisation.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy & Transformation:
Define transformation strategies, present to executive steering committees, and establish clear 1-2 year technical visions.
Solution Architecture:
Architect highly complex solutions across private cloud, public cloud, networking, and digital workplace environments, balancing cost, performance, and scalability.
Pre-Sales & Delivery:
Assist sales and delivery teams with solution design, effort estimation, costing, and successful execution through Deliverability Assessment Reviews (DA Reviews).
Technical Leadership:
Provide thought leadership on emerging technologies, mentor junior solution architects, and remain hands‑on where required to unblock technical teams.
Governance & Standards:
Ensure designs adhere to enterprise architecture standards, cloud industry security best practices (CSA & NIST), and published reference architectures.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Background: Significant professional technical and IT operations experience within a large-scale, multinational technology services environment, backed by a strong systems engineering foundation.
- Cloud & Virtualisation: Extensive hands‑on expertise with AWS, Azure, Private Cloud (VMware IaaS, Azure AVS, VxRail, ESX, vSAN), and containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes, CaaS, FaaS, Serverless).
- Storage Technologies: Demonstrable experience working with Hitachi, Dell, and NetApp storage solutions.
- Infrastructure as Code & Tooling: Comprehensive experience implementing and integrating multiple IaC and management toolsets (e.g., Terraform, ServiceNow CMP, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SolarWinds, SCOM) at an enterprise scale.
- Architecture & Networking: Deep knowledge of networking principles (TCP/UDP, routing, SDN), Linux / Windows OS internals, multi‑tenanted virtualised platforms, and microservice/event‑driven architectures.
- Consulting & Communication: Outstanding stakeholder management, client engagement, negotiation, and written/verbal communication skills.
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