Infrastructure Architect

Pontoon ,
London, Greater London

Overview

INFRASTRUCTURE ARCHITECT LONDON DURATION: 6 MONTHS INITIALLY Pontoon has an exciting opportunity for a Infrastructure Architect to join our financial services Client based in London on a 6 month contract initially. Our client has been serving the households, businesses and communities of Britain for over 250 years. They offer a comprehensive range of financial products and services - including current accounts, savings, mortgages, loans and credit cards. Responsibilities: Working as a technical lead on various IS and business projects. This involves working closely with project managers, other project staff and third party suppliers to input into, and lead on the start-up, implementation and closure of technical project activities. You'd provide technical systems integration expertise in collaboration with your Group Transformation colleagues by working within a squad/lab/project team. Attend internal meetings, presenting technical and non-technical information and taking the project approval through multiple governance forums. You'll transform business requirements and specifications into detailed designs and explore the infrastructure delivery options, developing design ideas as you go. Building in infrastructure specific requirements for delivery, for example Non-functional Requirements (NFR), infrastructure detail, volumetrics, and test environments you'll bring the best solution to life. Taking the lead in all aspects of infrastructure change within the Lab/project goals throughout their lifecycle means you could be involved with infrastructure build activities or leading the resources supporting the project through the testing cycles and into the live environment. Finally you'll support Disaster Recovery tests if applicable and lead resources to address infrastructure defects found over the Warranty Period Experience Required: Exposure to multiple infrastructure technologies (Server, Storage, Network) in a Design and/or implementation role. Experience of Cloud migration and design solution in both public and private cloud hosting Experience of designing multi-platform end-to-end project delivery. Agile environment experience A Systems Thinking qualification or exposure to the methodology and working practices would set your application apart. Previous Banking/Finance industry experience would be very useful. Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered. Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly. Pontoon is an employment consultancy and operates as an equal opportunity's employer