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The Opportunity

What you will do

• Interpret customers' business objectives, concerns, statements of work, and target market for services, to define requirements and key success factors for solutions. Break down EPIC into stories and facilitate the AGILE approach to deliver the solution
• Assess the current and desired state of customer systems and environments
• Understand contextual factors, constraints and stakeholder perspectives including business, user and operations, and define use cases
• Maintain current understanding of IT, security and supporting technologies, supplier offerings and in-house capabilities with which to construct solutions
• Use broad technical expertise and creative thinking to define, evaluate alternatives, develop and communicate solution architectures that address functional and non-functional requirements and integrate with their environment
• Support project, programme and service operations managers in the development and delivery of transformation plans and operational plans that implement solution architectures and provide services, while identifying and mitigating risks
• Develop solutions into high level designs for implementation by engineering teams
• Provide technical oversight, guidance and problem solving to operational and project delivery teams to help maintain delivery quality and resolve implementation, integration and maintenance challenges

• Keeping up to date with evolving technology to support technology/solution selection;
• Keeping up to date with available qualifications and certifications available for technology utilised across all systems;
• Keeping up to date with relevant industry standards, policies, methodologies and frameworks;
• Keeping up to date with relevant customer preferred/mandated standards, policies, methodologies and frameworks;
• Maintaining a coherent mix of Design Principles/Characteristics derived from the client base and internal practices tailored to specific contracts.

• Providing coordination and oversight for periodic technical documentation reviews in accordance with required review cycles;
• Providing coordination and oversight for periodic audits of all assets and equipment inventory including hardware and software in accordance with required audit frequency;
• Providing senior technical support to meetings such as Project Review Meetings, Capability Working Group Meetings and Security Working Groups as required;
• Performing a lead management role in Continual Service Improvement activities for processes, procedures and working practices utilised by the business unit.

What we are looking for

• The role requires the candidate to be a sole UK National with a current DV clearance.
• Systems infrastructure engineering and architecture design including network solutions, storage solutions, virtualisation solutions, client/server solutions, Windows and Red Hat operating systems, and high availability solutions;
• Knowledge of Microsoft Windows Server and Group Policy; Security Enforcing technologies and Secure gateway solutions providing interconnectivity to external ‘untrusted’ networks;
• Detailed requirements analysis and solution design experience;
• Experience of the complete systems development life-cycle from design through to operation/maintenance including transition, migration and disposal;
• Excellent people skills;
• Excellent documentation skills including initial development/production.

• Experience working within secure environments and with higher classified systems;
• Experience of MOD working practices and associated standards and policies;
• Experience of Cloud based technologies;
• Experience with Secure DevOps within an Agile /SAFe environment;
• Experience of architecture frameworks and architecture modelling.

• This is an office-based role using a variety of equipment, including display screen equipment and working full time hours which can often be in a demanding environment. Travel will be required in mainland UK.
• The positions in London also attract a London weighting premium