What You'll Do
- Lead infrastructure architecture across critical cloud and on prem technologies, underpinning retail application migration programmes to ensure platforms are secure, resilient, and fit for purpose.
- Act as a senior architecture contact for cloud modernisation initiatives, covering networking, identity, security, hosting, and operational readiness.
- Design and assure hybrid connectivity patterns across Verizon SDI, SWAN, Azure, OCI, and SaaS platforms.
- Produce high-quality architecture artefacts including target architectures, solution blueprints, low-level designs, and operational handover documentation.
- Influence stakeholders across technology and business teams, translating complex concepts into clear, actionable decisions.
- Govern technical delivery to ensure alignment with architecture standards and non-functional requirements.
What You Bring
- 5+ years designing and delivering enterprise-scale infrastructure solutions; 8+ years in technology overall, ideally within a retail domain.
- Strong architecture experience across hybrid environments, cloud networking, routing, Firewalls, DNS, identity, and security.
- Deep knowledge of Azure platform patterns, connectivity, segmentation, resilience, and shared services; OCI experience beneficial.
- Hands-on experience with hybrid networking (Verizon SDI, SWAN), routing domains, QoS, and failover testing.
- Expertise in identity and access management (Azure AD/Entra ID, federation/SSO, conditional access, privileged access).
- Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience delivering architecture governance and technical assurance for large-scale programmes.
Contract Details
- £575-£600 per day (Inside IR35)
- 6-month contract, with strong potential for extension
- Hybrid working, 2 days per week in Reading
Rate:
£600/day
Location:
Reading
IR35 Status:
Inside
Remote Status:
Hybrid
Industry:
IT
Seniority Level:
Senior