Your new company
Global Professional Services Firm.
Your new role
Working closely with our project and change teams, stakeholders, and technical SMEs to design technology systems and solutions that are aligned with the firm's business
strategy, you will be responsible for ensuring our architecture is aligned to the firm's technology roadmap.

You will be heavily involved in defining, designing and leading the implementation of new data and application integrations and data-led initiatives to support circa 4k users across 20 offices. We have recently migrated the majority of our services to the cloud, and we require support designing and building our next generation of solutions.

This role will require oversight and knowledge for architectural decisions to ensure the correct solutions are deployed into our UK landscape.
Key Responsibilities

• Ensure all architectural principles are adhered to for technology decisions for the enterprise
• Specify, design and help implement new services with strong traceability back to business requirements and IT strategies
• Strong engagement across other IT workstreams covering security, governance and service operations.
• Develop options, supporting rationale and cost benefit analysis for proposed areas of spending and initiatives
• Establish and maintain regular written and in-person communications with the firm's business leaders, department heads, and end users to proactively assist in the direction of future projects and programmes of work.
• Demonstrate the delivery of complex application, data and integration services
• Ability to provide a vision and strategy for data and application services
• Ability to act as a technical lead for key projects initiatives
• Perform the necessary leadership, analysis and design of tasks related to the development of solution architecture
• Analyse business drivers to determine corresponding change requirements
• Facilitate and lead the evaluation and selection of technology product standards, as well as the design of standard technology configurations
• Define transition steps and strategy as required from legacy data integration to modern scalable platforms
• Manage and oversee internal and external technology resources in the delivery of agreed solutions
• Align services to support global IT requirements and standards
• Ability to author a variety of architectural documents, from High Level to Low Level designs, configuration/build guides and more
• Wide and extensive experience with complex technology architecture landscapes with broad range of knowledge and experience in applications, data, Azure cloud-based services covering compute, network, storage and API management
• Wide and extensive experience of Microsoft 365 services, including Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams
• Experience of Microsoft Fabric, Synapse, Data Lakes, API Management and other data services
• Experience of Azure DevOps, Repos, CI/CD pipelines for code development and promotion
• Understanding of data residency and hosting requirements, Multi-Geo, high availability and disaster recovery concepts within Azure
• Demonstrate design of Azure services according to Well Architected Framework
• Wide and extensive experience across network, applications, data and infrastructure domains
• Understanding of security guidance, frameworks and security baselines including NIST, NCSC and Cyber Essentials +
• Securing Azure based services, techniques and practical applications, with relevant accreditations
• Audit and Governance services within Azure for compliance with GDPR/FOI requests
• Strong knowledge of design and architectural patterns
• Experience of software development methodologies and structured approaches to system development
• Knowledge of IT governance and operations

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