Simon James IT Ltd
Enterprise Architect – Contract - London Hybrid
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Enterprise Architect – Contract - London Hybrid
Location
London (Liverpool Street Office, 1-2 days per week)
Duration
6 Months
Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced Enterprise Architect / Practice Lead to join a major transformation initiative. You will take ownership of private cloud, public IaaS/PaaS (AWS and Azure), networking, and digital workplace services, ensuring all transformation strategies and project deliveries comply with best practices and uniform global standards.
This is a high-impact, client-facing role that bridges pre-sales, solutioning, and hands-on technical design. You will lead architectural alignment between regional business stakeholders and the Global Technology organisation.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategy & Transformation: Define transformation strategies, present to executive steering committees, and establish clear 1-2 year technical visions.
- Solution Architecture: Architect highly complex solutions across private cloud, public cloud, networking, and digital workplace environments, balancing cost, performance, and scalability.
- Pre-Sales & Delivery: Assist sales and delivery teams with solution design, effort estimation, costing, and successful execution through Deliverability Assessment Reviews (DA Reviews).
- Technical Leadership: Provide thought leadership on emerging technologies, mentor junior solution architects, and remain hands-on where required to unblock technical teams.
- Governance & Standards: Ensure designs adhere to enterprise architecture standards, cloud industry security best practices (CSA & NIST), and published reference architectures.
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- Background: Significant professional technical and IT operations experience within a large-scale, multi-national technology services environment, backed by a strong systems engineering foundation.
- Cloud & Virtualisation: Extensive hands-on expertise with AWS, Azure, Private Cloud (VMware IaaS, Azure AVS, VxRail, ESX, vSAN), and containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes, CaaS, FaaS, Serverless).
- Storage Technologies: Demonstrable experience working with Hitachi, Dell, and NetApp storage solutions.
- Infrastructure as Code & Tooling: Comprehensive experience implementing and integrating multiple IaC and management toolsets (e.g., Terraform, ServiceNow CMP, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SolarWinds, SCOM) at an enterprise scale.
- Architecture & Networking: Deep knowledge of networking principles (TCP/UDP, routing, SDN), Linux/Windows OS internals, multi-tenanted virtualised platforms, and microservice/event-driven architectures.
- Consulting & Communication: Outstanding stakeholder management, client engagement, negotiation, and written/verbal communication skills.
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