Telco Principal Architect

6 days ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom NP Group Full time £80,000 - £100,000 per year

Contract: Telco Principal Architect
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 6 months
Location:
Remote
Rate: £640 - £680 per day outside of IR35
Reference: 20120

Role Summary
Solution architecture contract assignment to deliver design decisions on major private cloud deployment for a Telco customer. Strong Telco architecture experience and high-level stakeholder engagement are essential.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own and maintain the end-to-end architecture within project scope.
  • Lead Architecture Review Boards and drive technical decision-making.
  • Provide thought leadership across delivery teams and customer stakeholders.
  • Control technical scope, assess change impacts, and manage risks/RAID.
  • Ensure platform readiness for application onboarding and alignment with test strategy.
  • Govern technical workstreams across network, compute, virtualisation and storage.
  • Ensure security, compliance, service transition and OSS/tooling integration.
  • Represent architecture in programme boards, steering committees and exec updates.
  • Work on infrastructure deployment for target workloads on Red Hat OpenShift and Wind River.
  • Produce high- and low-level designs

Required Experience & Skills

  • Architecture leadership for on-prem Kubernetes platforms (preferably OpenShift/OpenStack, Wind River).
  • Strong Telco background, including regulatory/TSA considerations.
  • Proven experience creating HLDs/LLDs.
  • Expertise with RHV, Kubernetes/OpenShift, cloud-native deployments and bare-metal/ZTP automation.
  • Familiarity with VMware (vSphere/vSAN/NSX-T) and migration to Red Hat/Wind River.
  • Advantageous: OpenShift TNC, Calico, MetalLB, Istio, Pure/Portworx storage, OpenStack (Red Hat & Wind River), KubeVirt, Arista/Cisco networking.
  • Awareness of CI/CD, GitLab and DevOps principles.

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