Lead Infrastructure Architect
A global Insurance provider urgently requires a Lead Infrastructure Architect to join their architecture practice as part of a Global IT Transformation.
The ideal candidate will demonstrate the following
- The ability to act as an architectural ambassador and technical advisor to the business, able to clearly articulate and gain stakeholder agreement and support with excellent communication and negotiation skills
- Able to clearly communicate complex IT concepts to non-technical business recipients
- Proven capability for both high- level strategic and pragmatic "common sense" thinking
- Considerable experience within a complex, global organisation (ideally within a Financial Services or other highly regulated environments)
- Significant experience with the production of both "As-Is" and "To-Be" technology landscapes and associated roadmaps
- Experience in designing or implementing IaaS/PaaS based solutions on AWS or Azure, and the adoption of 3rd party vendor SaaS software solutions
- Experience in migrating workloads from on-Premise data centres to the public cloud
- Experience configuring automation for Public/Private cloud based workloads
- A detailed understanding of Microsoft technologies including Windows Server, Desktops Active Directory, Server & Hosting technologies including VMware, Blades, Clustering, Azure, AWS, End User Technologies including Citrix, Exchange, Windows Desktop, collaboration tools, SharePoint
- An understanding of Storage, Network technology, security concepts, database platforms including SQL, Oracle, tools, automation & monitoring
Should you feel you are a good fit, please do not hesitate to contact Lucas Howman - lucas.howman@lafosse.com / 0207 9321685
