Job Application

Infrastructure Architect
Northampton (Hybrid) £500-£515 via Umbrella

Infra = Windows stack + Firewalls + load balancers
Data = Data SQL Servers


Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:
. Solution Development - Able to create fit for purpose technology solutions which address the combined challenges of: meeting business need, deliverable within reasonable constraints, aligned with strategic and regulatory governance.
. IT Architecture - Excellent understanding of best practice architectural and design methods with proven innovative and leading edge thinking (eg Domain Driven Architecture, building for resilience, scalability, performance, etc.)
Familiar with integration and implementation issues and their architectural implications.
. Technical Knowledge - a very good broad understanding of a wide variety of technologies pertinent to Barclays Partner Finance, including emerging technologies. (eg AWS, Java, C#, OpenAPI Specification (OAS) and RESTful API Modelling Language (RAML)). A general high level understanding of infrastructure design would be expected. A broad understanding and experience of a wide range of data sources would be expected.


Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:
. Project Delivery - Understands different project methodologies, project life cycles, major phases, dependencies and milestones within a project, and the required documentation needs.
. Mentoring - Ability to mentor, develop and work alongside other more junior team members.
. Vendor Evaluation - Ability to understand how and where third party products could be deployed. Good knowledge of vendor evaluation and selection best practice.
. Planning - Experienced with planning, estimating, staffing, organising, and working on multiple projects. Has monitored and dealt with critical paths and risks areas.
. Service Delivery - Good understanding of concepts of service delivery and support and how this can be affected by technical delivery.