Enterprise Architect, IT Solutions

TDA "Technical design authority" uc telecommunications cloud "enterprise architect" "solutions architect" TDA "Technical design authority" uc telecommunications cloud "enterprise architect" "solutions architect" **Enterprise Architect for a major UK IT solutions provider** **£65k to £85k base plus 10% bonus and benefits** **Home based** **The Challenge**: The EA operates as the technical lead and senior technical contact for engagements across our diverse customer base as well as working inside our business to lead and drive design, implementation and support activities delivering benefit to one or many stakeholders.The team adds value by providing continuity of engagement and influence, optimally operating from initial opportunity scoping, through presales, design, implementation and support. You will be the key point of continuity that glues the efforts of your colleaguestogether. The role requires a broad and diverse range of technical experience as your colleagues and customers will look to you for guidance, this understanding will also ensure you protect our organization from committing to deliver suboptimal or incompatible solutionsand therefore failing in the eyes of our customer. To achieve this, you must also be an expert communicator, able to think fast and represent a situation professionally and eloquently, often with little or no time to prepare. Your people skills are equallyas important as your technical aptitude as a large part of your day will be spent collaborating across both internal and external forums to progress projects, deal with escalations, complement presales engagements and embed with your customers business tounderstand the challenges facing them. **Key responsibilities for this job**: - Leading and directing the collation of requirements, production of architecture, design, and presentation of solutions to meet customer requirements. - Ensure deployment and service objectives are met whilst maintaining a high level of prospect/customer satisfaction. - Definition of work packages for the Professional Services or Managed Services teams to deploy and provide ongoing support to them during the build and handover processes. - Work with Project Management to facilitate project reporting, delivery planning, checkpoint meetings (including conference calls and workshops) and to oversee project implementations. - Act as technical point of contact for prospects, customers, and the sales teams on both BAU and project work across a wide variety of changing technologies. - Provide follow-up support in disseminating technical information to the business throughout the contract lifecycle. - Support in the development and scoping of new service opportunities. - Review and critique produced presales proposals and high and low-level design documentation in preparation for release to the customer. - Validate pre-sales designs against technical, project and commercial best practice. - Continuously update your technical and soft skill knowledge. - Present Exponential-e products and technical proposals to potential customers across a wide variety of industries and levels of seniority. - Any other fair and reasonable task or duty assigned to you by your Manager, or other senior staff member **Knowledge and experience required**: - Extensive consulting skills across Enterprise IT covering technology, Service and Project. - Strong knowledge of public, private and hybrid cloud with a good understanding of the pros and cons of each. - Strong knowledge of the Microsoft Server and EUC product range with the ability to hold SME conversation. - Solid understanding of networking, UC & Voice and Data Centre technologies - Good appreciation of Non-Microsoft environments including both Linux and Mac. - Ability to review and understand basic scripted automation and the willingness to learn more. - Good understanding of Automation and Orchestration activity with knowledge of tooling and best practice. - Experience configuring and deploying both Public and Private Cloud solutions, with a focus on migrations. - Extensive experience implementing and adhering to the ITIL v3 Framework - Strong organisation and planning skills - Excellent attention to detail and a strong ability to prioritise efficiently - Highly adaptable and proactive and able to multi-task and able to work well under pressure - Efficiently communicate both verbally and in written form - Able to work with and manage delivery partners in diverse project teams **Desirable Knowledge and experience**: - Relevant, high-level accreditations with Microsoft and VMWare - Software development experience and demonstrable experience in deploying Infrastructure as Code, Automation through Software and cross-platform script creation. - Experience designing, implementing and supporting cloud infrastructure - Experience of delivering large or complex projects/transformation projects - Experience of VMware, Mimecast, CensorNet, Commvault, SafeNet/Mobilepass - Comprehensive knowledge of quality assurance principles, methods, design, testing and implementation