Senior Technology Architect -Cloud Solution Architect - London

Senior Technology Architect - Cloud Solution Architect - London

Company: ITL UK

Requisition ID: 126119BR

Role: Senior Technology Architect

Location: London, UK

Job Description:

In the role of Sr Technology Architect / Senior Technology Architect, you will interface with key stakeholders and apply your technical proficiency across different stages of the Software Development Life Cycle including Requirements Elicitation, Application Architecture definition, and Design. You will play an important role in creating the Architecture and high-level design artifacts. You will also do technical feasibility and identify smart ways of completing client's requirements. You will guide the team technically and work closely with the offshore team acting as a communication medium between the client and offshore. You will be part of a learning culture, where teamwork and collaboration are encouraged, excellence is rewarded, and diversity is respected and valued.

Required:

1. Own and lead Hybrid cloud solutions - in formulating and driving the end-to-end enterprise cloud transformation life cycle stages - Analyse, Define, Build, Migration strategy and Operate stages.
2. Relationship Building. Proven record of accomplishment of building deep technical relationships with senior IT executives in large or highly strategic accounts. Experience in managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solutions/projects.
3. Evaluating demand against key constraints (financial, resource, concentration) and surfacing key risks that will compromise our ability to deliver critical priorities.
4. Working with senior leadership to consult on strategic direction and requirements, leveraging this to inform recommendations and horizon planning.
5. Define cloud migration and modernization strategy, migration pattern, modernization of legacy infrastructure with Containers and Kubernetes, modernization of data and databases, integration platforms, cloud native tools and others.
6. Ability to cope in a technically complex and fast-changing environment, and to respond rationally to changing aspirations in a deadline-driven situation.
7. Work with partners and different practice teams to summarise the solution and associated bill of materials.
8. Good understanding of the commercial construct for the proposed solution i.e. IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS across different cloud environments (Private, Public, and Edge).
9. Devising compelling proposals, from concept and business benefit statements (e.g. presentations) to SoWs.
10. Provide advice on industry best practices, implementations in other accounts, in a solution agnostic manner.
11. Continued architectural oversight of portfolio of inflight projects. When needed, willing to provide technical leadership during Major Incidents/Outages.
12. Create guiding principles and solution success criteria for platform capability or feature development across Platforms.
13. Acting as an escalation point for the hybrid cloud infrastructure risks and issues and how they can be mitigated.

Preferred:

1. TOGAF Certified Enterprise Architect is desired.
2. Cloud and Data centre technologies certification.

Personal:

1. High analytical skills.
2. A high degree of initiative and flexibility.
3. High customer orientation.
4. High quality awareness.
5. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

About Us:

Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. We enable clients in more than 56 countries to navigate their digital transformation. With over four decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises, we expertly steer our clients through their digital journey. We do it by enabling the enterprise with an AI-powered core that helps prioritize the execution of change. We also empower the business with agile digital at scale to deliver unprecedented levels of performance and customer delight. Our always-on learning agenda drives their continuous improvement through building and transferring digital skills, expertise, and ideas from our innovation ecosystem.

Infosys is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, spouse of protected veteran, or disability.