Senior Technical Architect

• Senior Technical Architect experience and being confident in the development and use of suitable architectural standards (including but not limited to TOGAF).
• Deliver high-level and low-level technical designs for government department customers that meet business, technical, and cyber security requirements.
• Experience in relevant roles, including technologies in enterprise and virtual environments and of working within a secure government environments.
• Lead the automation of platforms, products, and services, enabling workflows to enhance efficiency.
• Experience creating technical and architectural documents such as options assessments, low and high-level technical designs.
• DevSecOps experience in automation and improvement in development and release processes (Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery).
• Experience of requirements management and the ownership of requirements.
• Substantial experience of server/operating system and network technologies, as a minimum Hybrid Cloud, Gateways, PKI, Email, VMware virtualisation platforms (including VCD, VSAN, and NSX), SASE architecture, Cisco, and Palo Alto.
• Design solutions for the deployment of the VM Ware VCF suite , including IaaS, PaaS & SaaS use cases.
• Design of infrastructure to support security audit and monitoring.
• Design and build of cross domain connectivity solutions, including gateways.
• Working knowledge of auditing and security products configuration.
• A comprehensive understanding of NCSC, GDS, CIS, Cyber Essentials, and NIST IT security principles, along with experience in UK government technology strategies and policies.

• Experience of Implementation of data labelling and classification solutions
• Worked in a matrix organisation structure.
• Infrastructure as a Code (IaC), Containerisation, and Microservices.
• Qualified in TOGAF, Zachman, MCSE, VCP, CNNP, or ITIL Expert Leader/Master.