Senior Solution Architect

Senior Solution Architect - could be fully remote if need be but the ideal scenario is 1 day a week in the Glasgow office - 6 months plus likely extension - £(Apply online only) per day inside IR35

As a Senior Architecture Advisor within the wider Enterprise Architecture Community, you'll be responsible for driving architecture designs and solutions for our growing markets in areas such as Azure, AWS, Sales Force and other SaaS based initiatives.

You will champion and cheerlead the needs of the region across multiple project deployment designs and will mobilize commitment and support with your peer groups across many organizational and country boundaries.

• Develop and foster strong relationships with both the Euro and Middle East business partners, enterprise architects and technology owners to deliver the right strategic alignment between global standards and regional deployments.
• Champion and support the development of the cloud strategy; assessments, foundational cloud services, utilization of IaaS, PaaS etc
• Participate in the strategic development of infrastructure solutions intended for enterprise use with a 'cloud first' mentality. Represent infrastructure and own cloud native first conversations.
• Create deployment designs and/or provide leadership and oversight on projects to less experienced staff for deployment designs to guide project solutions.
• Produce a standard set of architecture artifacts with sufficient implementation details so that the blueprint and/or topology becomes an integral part of "as built" documentation to guide production readiness, production operation, and disaster recovery.
• Mature architectural governance by participating as an active member of the Solution Review Board, ensuring architectures and design align with IT standards, maximizes technology reuse and supports technology strategy directions.
• Adopt and communicate new concepts, ideas, techniques, best practices and technologies.
• Work with vendors, Enterprise Architecture and product management areas to establish required infrastructures and frameworks, supporting product evaluations, and proof of concepts as needed.
• Communicate well from the C Suite down. Sell a vision and approach. Gather followers.

Required Skills and Fit

• A strong leader, with organizational acumen and personal presence that drives confidence and followership.
• Significant, tangible and demonstrable experience in the solution design of complex IT systems, services and cloud transformation programs, with a track record of accomplishment bringing credibility to engagements.
• In-depth experience across a number of broad technology disciplines, including domains such as infrastructure design and migration (cloud and data center), cloud first mindsets, service integration, software development/application architecture, implementation/integration of SaaS based solutions.
• Deep knowledge in two or three technology discipline areas (Operating Systems, Databases, Systems Management, Network, Security, Storage and Backup, Internet Technologies, Private/Public Cloud, Virtualization, Directory Services, Application Servers, Hardware, SaaS or Cloud etc.)
• Demonstrable knowledge and cognizance of adjacent disciplines, including program management, customer relationship management, business management and financial management.
• Excellent communicator, ensuring solutions are communicated in relevant, compelling and engaging fashions across written, visual and oral mediums, including up to senior level.

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