Technical Infrastructure Architect (NIE)

Job description

About Atos

Atos is a global leader in digital transformation with over 110,000 employees in 73 countries and annual revenue of over € 11 billion. European number one in Cloud, Cybersecurity and High-Performance Computing, the Group provides end-to-end Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Big Data, Business Applications and Digital Workplace solutions. The group is the Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the Olympic & Paralympic Games and operates under the brands Atos, Atos Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), listed on the CAC40 Paris stock index.

The purpose of Atos is to help design the future of the information technology space. Its expertise and services support the development of knowledge, education as well as multicultural and pluralistic approaches to research that contribute to scientific and technological excellence. Across the world, the group enables its customers, employees and collaborators, and members of societies at large to live, work and develop sustainably and confidently in the information technology space.

The opportunity

Within Atos, a Project Technical Architect produces end-to-end High-Level Designs (HLD), combining services, technologies and products from multiple IT areas including desktop and server technologies; storage solutions; virtualisation, applications; network components; infrastructure tooling and ITIL-based processes.

 

Working on won business either from new logo wins or incremental sales on an existing account, the Project TA is usually part of a transformation and transition team working alongside Project Managers and Subject Matter Experts (SME) from multiple business units both internal and external.

 

The Project TA also provides governance and assurance of SME produced detailed design documentation, validating alignment to the HLD whilst adhering to Atos and account technology standards and policies.

During an assignment a Project TA is expected to consistently demonstrate the following key skills within the project assignment context

 

Your day-to-day responsibilities include:

Producing and describing client solutions and designs whilst working within the established Engineering and Architecture frameworks and integrating the appropriate templated solutions

Ensuring solution designs conform to our Technical Strategy and that any exceptions are agreed with, and signed off by, the Chief Technology Office or the affected Delivery areas

Translating business requirements to cost effective designs and technical solutions to customers business processes

Understanding solution risks and working to mitigate or provide alternatives

Understanding what a good Service looks like and working with other teams to ensure the solutions produced are supportable

Ensuring that design documentation is coherent end to end across the design lifecycle and that systems have been built to design

Providing advice and guidance to customers on the technical solutions including the realised business benefits.

Providing advice and guidance during service outages

Ensuring that individual High-Level Designs align to the overarching Architecture baseline

Providing leadership, guidance and support to the end to end design workstream teams including TAs and SMEs where required

Contributing to Technology roadmaps and Account strategies

Regular reporting to Lead Architect, Project Manager, Service Delivery Manager as appropriate.

 

Signs of success

To be successful in this role, you’ll need a rich combination of experience, proven skills and personal attributes. See below to find out if you’re the person we’re looking for!

 

Demonstrating collaboration with internal and external architecture teams to ensure alignment of requirements and solutions and to facilitate design sign-off and approvals

Ability to understand the business requirements and contracted services and clearly relate these to the solution requirements for other teams

Demonstrating that solution risks are understood, described and mitigated

Producing design documentation and technotes that are coherent end to end across the design lifecycle and meet our framework guidelines for their production and governance

Demonstrating ownership of technical troubleshooting tasks and showing that guidance and support is provided to SMEs in achieving the resolution outcomes

 

Skills we can’t do without:

·  Technical focus and drive – being the architectural focal point for the project designs in their area of expertise
·  Learning and Development - Willingness to continually update and broaden technical area of expertise in line with business requirements
·  Vision and innovation – identify and champion solution improvements managed through project change
·  Commercial awareness - understand the impact of design changes in the context of the end to end solution
·  Quality control and assurance - governance and alignment of design to build
·  Accountability and responsibility
·  High quality documentation and communication skills.

 

Skills we’d like:

·  Experience of showing leadership at multiple levels within teams of Project resources delivering multiple deliverables as part of an overall programme of work
·  Capability to be the delegate for workstream technical Leads providing design governance and assurance.

 

More reasons to join us!

In addition to joining a global leader in digital transformation, you can also expect a fantastic range of benefits. These include: a rewarding salary, 25 days’ annual leave, private medical insurance, an attractive stakeholder pension scheme plus many more. We also operate a flexible benefits scheme, allowing you to purchase discounted products and services.

What’s more, we really value your progress and it’s a top priority to engage, inspire and develop you to help you maximise your potential. In fact, we have comprehensive training and development programmes in place demonstrating our commitment to developing your career.

 

How to apply

Confident this sounds like you? Please click below to complete our online application form and attach your CV in either Word, rtf or text format.

Atos does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, sex, age, disability or sexual orientation. All recruitment decisions are based solely on qualifications, skills, knowledge, experience and relevant business requirements.

We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to the application process for people with disabilities.

 

Here at Atos, we want all of our employees to feel valued, appreciated, and free to be who they are at work. Our employee lifecycle processes are designed to prevent discrimination against our people regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes them unique. Across the globe, we have created a variety of programs to embed our Atos culture of inclusivity, and work hard to ensure that all of our employees have an equal opportunity to contribute and feel that they are exactly where they belong.