Technical Architect

Portsmouth, England, gb

Job Description At NEC Software Solutions our Technical Architects get up to all sorts. Whether that s creating technical architecture designs for corporate and customer solutions, collaborating with internal stakeholders designing solutions to their complex problems, maintaining and evolving existing solutions and much more. Our Technical Architects work is a combination of technical design, consultancy and guidance, combined with hands-on implementation. As NEC business units embrace agile and DevOps based software development and delivery models, our Technical Architects are pivotal members of the multidisciplinary teams required to achieve effective outcomes. NEC's Technical Architect sits within the support function, providing technical architecture expertise to multiple support teams responsible for the technical support of our products and solutions. The Technical Architect will work across the existing support teams to provide high-level assistance for incidents and changes. We are looking for candidates with proven experience producing technical architecture designs within small and medium sized enterprise environments. Responsibilities will include: 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. This is a home-based role, with occasional requirements to attend company offices or customer sites as needed. Qualifications Our central architecture teams are fantastic, and can definitely help anyone develop in their practice - but there are a couple of things we re going to need you to have experience with in order to hit the ground running in this role. 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. If you have the above experience we re off to a pretty good start, any of the experience below would be fantastic - but we can also help you along the way to getting some of these: 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. Additional Information We pride ourselves in offering an excellent benefits package. When you join the team at NEC Software Solutions, you are provided with the following: 25 days paid holiday with the option to buy/sell (FTE) 4 x basic salary life assurance cover (with the option to increase cover at an additional cost) A Group Pension Plan A selection of flexible benefits to suit your individual needs