Junior Technical Architect

Junior Technical Architect

Reporting to: Technical Architect

Location: UK, Germany

Role Objectives:

The Junior Infrastructure Architect supports the design, documentation, and continuous improvement of the IT infrastructure landscape. Reporting to the Technical Architect (Infrastructure), the role contributes to architecture standards, solution designs, and technology roadmaps while gaining hands-on experience in enterprise and cloud infrastructure environments.

Key Results / Areas

Core Responsibilities

Architecture Support

• Support the Technical Architect in designing and documenting infrastructure architectures and technical solutions.
• Assist in maintaining infrastructure architecture diagrams, standards, and reference models.
• Contribute to technology evaluations, proofs of concept, and architectural assessments.

Infrastructure Design & Documentation

• Create and maintain technical documentation, including low-level designs and architecture overviews.
• Ensure designs align with architectural principles, security requirements, and operational standards.
• Support dependency and impact analysis for infrastructure changes.

Project & Change Support

• Participate in infrastructure-related projects, migrations, and transformation initiatives.
• Support Change Management by providing architectural input and validation.
• Assist in reviewing technical changes for architectural compliance.

Operational Alignment & Continuous Improvement

• Collaborate with operations teams to ensure designs are supportable and resilient.
• Support root cause analysis activities by providing architectural insights.
• Continuously develop architectural skills and stay informed about emerging infrastructure technologies.

Stakeholder & Communication Management

• Work closely with the Technical Architect to align solutions with the target architecture.
• Collaborate with infrastructure engineers, cloud teams, and security specialists.
• Support communication of architectural decisions and standards to technical teams.

Knowledge, qualifications, and experience

Required Skills & Experience

• Initial experience in infrastructure engineering, systems administration, or a related technical role.
• Basic understanding of infrastructure architecture concepts (on-prem, cloud, hybrid).
• Knowledge of networking, compute, storage, virtualization, and operating systems.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS, or OCI) is an advantage.
• Strong analytical mindset and willingness to learn architectural best practices.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Entry-level or associate certifications (e.g. cloud fundamentals, infrastructure certifications) are an advantage.

Skills and Competencies

• Builds customer loyalty: Demonstrates an understanding of the customer (internal/external), builds productive customer relationships with integrity, and takes responsibility for ensuring customer advocacy.
• Delivers against operational objectives: Translates strategic priorities into medium-term operational reality for own part of the business, respecting and aligning with the values and managing interdependencies with other parts of Hays.
• Engaging Communication: Engages and influences by using a wide range of communication methods and styles with the ability to present complex technical issues to varied populations. Facilitates understanding and encourages communication both within own team and more broadly.
• Builds collaborative relationships: Establishes effective relationships with a wide range of stakeholders inside and outside their immediate working environment, valuing the contribution from others and leveraging networks across Hays.
• Facilitates transformational change: Facilitates the implementation of change and transformation within the workplace by guiding others and helping them adapt is a positive ambassador of change.
• Identifying and developing talent: Identifies and appropriately deploys key knowledge, skills and experience required across their organisation. Uses Hays’ people process to attract, develop, and engage and retain the appropriate talent.
• Demonstrates personal resilience: Highly efficient, has the organisation skills to manage a diverse range of tasks and see work through to completion, in a timely manner, ensuring deadlines are met. Able to cope well with pressure, deals constructively with setbacks.
• Demonstrates continuous learning: Demonstrates continuous interest in personal skills in development and learning, aiming to develop senior leadership capabilities and seeking continuous feedback to manage own impact and maintain self-awareness.

Situational Requirements

• Comfortable travelling– a dispersed geographic spread of countries.
• Able to work across multiple time zones.
• Fluency in written and oral English.

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