Remote Technical Architect

Summary

Join us and make a difference in the world! We are looking for Technical Architects to create technical architecture designs for corporate and customer solutions, collaborate with internal stakeholders, and maintain existing solutions. The successful candidate will join our central architecture and design team, working across enterprise, security, technical, and solution architecture domains.

Requirements

• Proven experience producing technical architecture designs within a small to medium enterprise environment
• Proven understanding of non-functional requirements and their impact on technical architecture design
• Demonstrates a good working knowledge of end user, compute, networking, storage technologies, including desktop and server virtualisation technologies, network switches and firewalls, perimeter boundary protection, and SANs
• Strong awareness of security to ensure that technical designs provide sufficient protection for workloads

Responsibilities

• Produce technical architecture designs meeting business requirements within the overarching architecture framework
• Participate in the technical architecture design peer review process to ensure the high quality of all designs produced by the wider central architecture team
• Present technical architecture designs to the technical assurance board and support the technical assurance process based on specialist knowledge and experience
• Support the implementation of technical architecture designs, provide knowledge transfer to support teams and hands-on support where necessary
• Undertake evaluation of architecture and design options making recommendations to stakeholders that ensure functional and non-functional requirements are met
• Support the technology roadmap process undertaking and presenting investigations related to new and existing technologies enabling controlled introduction of technology adoption
• Undertake continuous learning to maintain knowledge of the key technologies in use by NEC, emerging technology trends, and industry standards to support business innovation through intelligent use of IT

Benefits

• Private Medical Cover funded by NEC for Employees (with the option to add family members at an additional cost)
• 25 days paid holiday with the option to buy/sell (FTE)
• 4 x basic salary life assurance cover funded by NEC (with the option to increase cover at an additional cost)
• A Group Pension Plan with fantastic employer contributions up to a maximum of 8.5%
• A selection of flexible benefits to suit your individual needs