Lead Solutions Architect

Duration: 3 months

Location: Manchester

About the Team
We are looking to appoint a Solution Architect to join our existing architecture team within ITS Strategy & Architecture. The team is responsible for architectural design & governance, and translating ITS strategy into design principles, standards and guidance. ITS Strategy & Architecture leads the shaping, understanding and definition of IT needs across the business. It is a specialised team with roles across information architecture, solution architecture, business analysis, and business architecture.

About the role
The role will initially be assigned to work within our Evolve programme to provide the team with stable and highly available IT services that enable our current and future needs. The primary focus of this role will be to drive delivery of our "Colleague and Student Compute" and "Environments" workstreams.
Colleague and Student Compute

• An improved experience for students in the PC cluster environments and a more robust service for colleagues.
• A new PC cluster provisioning service, including upgraded hardware, provisioning technologies, and a strategy for PC clusters linked to the Teaching and Learning strategy.
• Processes for preparing and issuing new University-managed devices to colleagues and postgraduate researchers using automation technology.
• Stronger links between IT Services and the Teaching and Learning community for colleague and student computing services.
• Knowledge of technologies such as Parallels, AppsAnywhere and Tanium would be of benefit.

Environments:

• Delivering on-demand, high availability, reusable, stable and managed environments utilising industry-standard tools.
• On-demand & Automated builds for environments for our core systems.
• Improved release management & data obfuscation technologies & processes.
• Robust guidelines, standards and governance.
• Knowledge of technologies such as Nutanix, VMWare and Terraform would be of benefit

The person

As a great communicator, you'll be able to use your experience to help others, giving guidance and support to a diverse range of people in realizing and implementing solutions. You will be comfortable presenting highly complex information and strategic plans to groups of varying stakeholders.
You'll have a breadth of technical skills, knowledge and experience across and a broad range of applications, technologies and data. You'll be comfortable working within a complex, heavily integrated system landscape.
Experience with TOGAF, SAFe or other architectural frameworks would also be desirable, as would a good understanding of modern security principles and processes.You'll work within our governance and delivery frameworks, leading the creation of solution architectures across our implementations. You'll merge project requirements with strategic roadmaps and principles to ensure project success.
You'll contribute to specific programmes of work, working with Engineering teams and suppliers through the project lifecycle.

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