Enterprise Architect

Enterprise Architect, 3Roc Ltd

Location: Rochdale office (Globe House Business Centre, Moss Bridge Road, Rochdale, OL16 5EB)

Working pattern: hybrid, three days a week in the office and two days from home

Start date: ASAP

Salary: £65,000 to £78,000 a year, depending on experience

Contract: 1 year fixed term, with a high potential of extension

Clearance: SC clearance required, ideally already held, or you must be able to go through SC clearance

About 3Roc

3Roc Ltd is a UK IT consultancy and managed service provider. We deliver cloud and data centre migration, infrastructure, cyber security, networking and managed IT services. Much of our work is in public sector infrastructure for major UK government departments.

The role

This is the senior technical leadership role on our government programmes. At its core, you'll govern, lead and support our entire technical team. When our engineers and specialists hit a problem, they'll bring it to you, and you'll give them the solution, guidance and direction to keep delivery moving. You'll also set the technical vision, create the designs and patterns behind it, and work with clients to drive the outcomes they need.

Core responsibility: technical team leadership and governance

• Govern, manage and support the whole technical team, and make sure work follows the agreed vision, designs and standards.
• Act as the go to escalation point for the team, providing solutions, guidance and resolution for complex infrastructure and technology problems.
• Guide engineers through delivery, removing blockers and making clear technical decisions.
• Coach and develop the team, raising technical quality and consistency across the programme.

Further responsibilities

• Create architecture designs, standards and reusable patterns across infrastructure and technology.
• Work with client stakeholders in major UK government departments to understand their goals and drive the outcomes they need.
• Take designs through governance and design authority boards, and get them approved.
• Attend security meetings and present solutions and designs to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Write high quality design documents, technical papers and white papers.

Essential experience

• Proven experience leading, governing and supporting technical teams through delivery.
• Proven experience of data centre migrations.
• Strong integration experience across infrastructure, applications and platforms.
• A track record of getting designs approved through formal governance.
• Confidence presenting designs and solutions in security forums.
• Excellent technical writing, including design documents and white papers.

Desirable

• Experience working with major UK government departments or other public sector clients.
• Knowledge of hybrid cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS or private cloud.
• OpenText experience.
• Cloud migration experience, alongside data centre migration.
• An architecture framework or certification such as TOGAF.

How to apply

Apply here or send your CV to recruit@3roc.co.uk, quoting Enterprise Architect. We'll use your details only for this recruitment process, and you can ask us to remove them at any time.