Technical Architect

Summary

Join NEC Software Solutions as a Technical Architect and play a key role in achieving business goals. You will design and maintain technical architecture for corporate platforms and solutions across various environments (on-premises, data centers, public clouds). Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to create solutions for complex problems. This role involves technical design, consultancy, guidance, and hands-on implementation of robust platform services. As part of multidisciplinary teams, you will support the transition to Agile and DevOps models. The ideal candidate has proven experience in technical architecture design within small to medium-sized enterprises and a strong understanding of non-functional requirements.

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing solutions deployed to a multi-tenanted community cloud platform
• Experience designing and implementing solutions deployed to public cloud platforms
• Experience of a subset of the core NEC technologies: Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows, Oracle Solaris, Linux
• Server Virtualisation: VMware vSphere, Oracle OVM for x86 or Oracle OVM for Sparc
• Networking: Cisco Switches, Cisco Firewalls, Palo Alto Firewalls
• Storage: Netapp SANs
• Backup: Dell IDPA, HP Data Protector
• Public Cloud Platforms: Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Oracle OCI
• Experience designing and delivering solutions within the UK Government domain
• Familiarity with compliance & security standards across the enterprise IT landscape such as ISO 27001 and NCSC Cyber Essentials
• Familiarity with ITIL service management principles & tools, and their use in an enterprise environment

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
• All colleagues get free access to LinkedIn Learning. Over 15000 courses covering a huge breadth of subjects. Learn about what you like, when you like, how you like