Senior Technical Architect required by a leading provider of global IT solutions and managed services based in Slough. Competitive salary offered.
We are now looking to recruit a Senior Technical Architect to lead a highly skilled team of consultants and engineers to develop, build and support innovative Cloud and platform solutions, setting the technical direction for solutions, and ensure team activities are coordinated and focused. You will have experience of leading technical teams at the highest levels working within a
Cloud / Platform-as-a-Service / Infrastructure-as-a-Service environment from a service provider perspective. Your abilities to interpret, understand and solve complex technical problems will be excellent.
Responsibilities:
-Lead, manage and drive a team of software and hardware consultants, subject matter experts and support engineers.
-Use personal broad industry experience to develop the team to meet future challenges.
-Provide structure, guidance and clear direction to ensure team meets its goals.
-Act as an approver as part of the change management process ensuring that an effective change implementation, test and back out plan is present.
-To manage the team of SME and prioritise the resources to resolve complex platform problems or design issues for customers.
-Evaluate the risk of amending the platform standards and establish sufficient training for the support team to deliver effective support for the customer.
-Support the full range of IT platforms, and ensure decisions are coordinated across this range.
-Take a leading role in specific projects and with specific customers, to ensure that their work with the Platforms is a success.
-Manage team workload, carefully balancing delivery priorities, customer expectation and resource scheduling.
Technical Skills:
The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate broad technical knowledge and experience of the key platform technologies: Cisco Data Centre products: UCS, Nexus; Cisco Security products: ASA, ACS; NetApp Storage: FAS, vSeries; IBM PureFlex, IBM POWER; CA Automation Suite for Clouds
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a leading global brand providing IT solutions and services with excellent career progression. In return we can offer a highly competitive salary and benefits package.
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