Our Higher Education client has a requirement for a Solution Architect on an initial 3 month contract inside IR35. This will be hybrid working with 2 days a week onsite in Manchester.
The primary focus of this role will be to drive delivery of the "Colleague and Student Compute" and "Environments" workstreams.
Colleague and Student Compute
- An improved experience for students in the PC cluster environments and a more robust service for colleagues.
- A new PC cluster provisioning service, including upgraded hardware, provisioning technologies, and a strategy for PC clusters linked to the Teaching and Learning strategy.
- Processes for preparing and issuing new University-managed devices to colleagues and postgraduate researchers using automation technology.
- Stronger links between IT Services and the Teaching and Learning community for colleague and student computing services.
- Knowledge of technologies such as Parallels, AppsAnywhere and Tanium would be of benefit.
Environments
- Delivering on-demand, high availability, reusable, stable and managed environments utilising industry-standard tools.
- On-demand & Automated builds for environments for our core systems.
- Improved release management & data obfuscation technologies & processes.
- Robust guidelines, standards and governance.
- Knowledge of technologies such as Nutanix, VMWare and Terraform would be of benefit.
The Person
- You will have great engagement, collaboration and influencing skills.
- As a great communicator, you'll be able to use your experience to help others, giving guidance and support to a diverse range of people in realising and implementing solutions.
- You will be comfortable presenting highly complex information and strategic plans to groups of varying stakeholders.
- You'll have a breadth of technical skills, knowledge and experience across a broad range of applications, technologies and data.
- You'll be comfortable working within a complex, heavily integrated system landscape.
- Experience with TOGAF, SAFe or other architectural frameworks would also be desirable, as would a good understanding of modern security principles and processes.
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