Technical Architect

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Please Note: Role can be Hybrid Office Based or Remote, subject to location.

At NEC Software Solutions, our Technical Architects are key enablers supporting the business in achieving its goals and objectives. A typical day might involve creating and maintaining technical architecture designs for our corporate platforms and business solutions either on-premises, in corporate data centres, or on public cloud platforms, producing workload architecture design for customer hosted services, or collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to design solutions to their complex problems.

Communication and collaboration are paramount to this role, as the Technical Architect will be working closely with internal stakeholders on a continuous basis, understanding their needs, and designing solutions to meet their needs and expectations, either as new opportunities or ongoing technical refresh of existing solutions.

Our Technical Architects' work is a combination of technical design, consultancy, and guidance, combined with hands-on implementation. This includes the design and implementation of robust platform services that support scalable, reliable, and secure applications. As NEC business units transition to Agile and DevOps-based software development and delivery models, our Technical Architects are pivotal members of the multidisciplinary teams required to ensure that our software and service deliver effective outcomes to customers.

We are looking for candidates with proven experience producing technical architecture designs within small and medium sized enterprise environments. The successful candidate will join the central architecture team that comprises a diverse group of architects working across enterprise, security, technical, and solution architecture domains providing excellent opportunities to develop their own architecture and design practices.

Responsibilities will include:

• Produce technical architecture designs meeting business requirements within the overarching architecture framework.
• Participate in the technical architecture design peer review process to ensure the high quality of all designs produced by the wider central architecture team.
• Present technical architecture designs to the technical assurance board and support the technical assurance process based on specialist knowledge and experience.
• Support the implementation of technical architecture designs, provide knowledge transfer to support teams and hands-on support where necessary.
• Undertake evaluation of architecture and design options making recommendations to stakeholders that ensure functional and non-functional requirements are met.
• Support the technology roadmap process undertaking and presenting investigations related to new and existing technologies enabling controlled introduction of technology adoption.
• Undertake continuous learning to maintain knowledge of the key technologies in use by NEC, emerging technology trends, and industry standards to support business innovation through intelligent use of IT.

Our central architecture and design team can definitely help anyone develop their own practice - but there are some essential skills that we need you to have in order to hit the ground running in this role.

• Proven experience producing technical architecture designs within a small to medium enterprise environment.
• Proven understanding of non-functional requirements and their impact on technical architecture design.
• Demonstrates a good working knowledge of end user, compute, networking, storage technologies, including desktop and server virtualisation technologies, network switches and firewalls, perimeter boundary protection, and SANs.
• Strong awareness of security to ensure that technical designs provide sufficient protection for workloads.

If you have the above experience, we’re off to a pretty good start, additionally any of the experience below would be beneficial - but we can also help you along the way to develop your skills and gain experience:

• Experience designing and implementing solutions deployed to a multi-tenanted community cloud platform.
• Experience designing and implementing solutions deployed to public cloud platforms.
• Experience of a subset of the core NEC technologies:
  • Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows, Oracle Solaris, Linux.
  • Server Virtualisation: VMware vSphere, Oracle OVM for x86 or Oracle OVM for Sparc.
  • Networking: Cisco Switches, Cisco Firewalls, Palo Alto Firewalls.
  • Storage: Netapp SANs.
  • Backup: Dell IDPA, HP Data Protector.
  • Public Cloud Platforms: Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Oracle OCI.
• Experience designing and delivering solutions within the UK Government domain.
• Familiarity with compliance & security standards across the enterprise IT landscape such as ISO 27001 and NCSC Cyber Essentials.
• Familiarity with ITIL service management principles & tools, and their use in an enterprise environment.

We pride ourselves in offering an excellent benefits package, including an above average pension scheme. When you join the team at NEC Software Solutions, you are provided with the following:

• Private Medical Cover funded by NEC for Employees (with the option to add family members at an additional cost)
• 25 days paid holiday with the option to buy/sell (FTE)
• 4 x basic salary life assurance cover funded by NEC (with the option to increase cover at an additional cost)
• A Group Pension Plan with fantastic employer contributions up to a maximum of 8.5%
• A selection of flexible benefits to suit your individual needs
• All colleagues get free access to LinkedIn Learning. Over 15000 courses covering a huge breadth of subjects. Learn about what you like, when you like, how you like.

OTHER INFORMATION

• Candidates must be able to demonstrate a pre-existing right to work and travel within the UK. Documentary evidence will be required.
• All offers are subject to satisfactory vetting, references and occupational health checks. 
• Depending on the nature of the role a Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check may also be required.

This position requires you to either currently have national security vetting clearance at the Security Check (SC) level or higher, Non-Police Personnel Vetting (NPPV) Level 3, or the ability to gain Enhanced Security Clearance in addition to the Baseline Personnel Security Standard.

NEC Software Solutions is an equal opportunities employer, welcoming applications from all communities. If you require any reasonable adjustments or have specific accessibility needs during the recruitment or interview process, please feel free to share these with us. We are committed to ensuring an inclusive and accommodating experience for all candidates.

Who We Are:

We’re NEC Software Solutions (part of global tech giant NEC Corporation). While you read this ad, our software is helping to dispatch ambulances, support families, keep trains on the move, locate missing people and even test the hearing of newborn babies.

Working with us, you’ll be helping our 3,000+ employees push the boundaries of what’s possible and support amazing public services.

We work with governments, hospitals, police forces, housing providers, local authorities and more. We help them pay financial support faster, speed up treatments for patients and respond to emergencies in the right way. The more we do, the more our customers can do for others. And together, we make a world of difference.

We’d love your help. And we’ll support you all the way.