Job Title: Infrastructure Technical Architect

Location: Nottingham

Contract: Perm

Recruiter: Noaman Hussain

 

About the role

We are looking for an infrastructure focussed Technical Architect to join Technology Services. Reporting to the Head of Infrastructure Architecture, your role will be to provide IT infrastructure direction, patterns and governance for design activity in response to internal customer requests and project demands. You will create outline architectures and work directly with Enterprise Architects to support strategic infrastructure direction and ensure agreement across multiple infrastructure projects.

Key Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership and consultancy for cross-functional and cross-technology projects. This will include engaging internal IT teams and 3rd party vendors across Walgreens Boots Alliance. Providing outline architectures, building blocks and direction for end-to-end solutions to meet the requirements of the business and ensure these are delivered

Work with Enterprise Architects and Solution Architects to maintain appropriate architecture documentation to support IT solutions

Work with International Service Owners and architects to identify opportunities, and build solutions following the defined strategies to offer new technology, service improvements and operating models

Define technical architecture and technical roadmap design, along with the supporting architecture principles and patterns

Participate in project governance bodies, for the approval of solution design, along with quality assurance in divisional and broader group IT governance

Be an active team member of the Architecture & Design practice and support colleagues through collaborative peer reviews, standards compliance checks and due diligence

Work with the delivery and operations teams to support problem resolution as a point of escalation for root cause analysis and remediation planning.

 

What you'll need to have

Experience of solution areas including infrastructure, public cloud, transformation and migration, security, business analysis, applications, integration, service management and an understanding of how all of these interact to arrive to an end-to-end solution

Understanding of the business, commercial and technical requirements to write clear and concise outlines and identify important architecture or design decisions is important.

You will need to have experience dealing with multiple senior stakeholders, leading workshops and reducing complex ideas to simple terms and expressing rationales for decision-making to both a technical and non-technical audience

Experience with complex projects and programmes, requiring available, disaster recovery and business continuity compliant systems in a large international enterprise

Be able to write clear and technical documentation covering outline architectures, infrastructure building blocks, patterns and roadmaps

Previous working experience in infrastructure platform design and clear understanding of the possible effects and the impact to the organisation and operation of IT.

Technical Skills

This is not a hands-on engineering role, but a technical understanding and functional experience in any four of these areas is desirable:

Private and public Cloud technologies – Azure Cloud migration and co-existence techniques. Full range of Azure IaaS, PaaS, SaaS products including Azure SQL, Cosmos DB and Azure App services

Containerisation, microservices and orchestration technologies – e.g. Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift,

Network solutions – Cisco switching, routing, wireless, load balancers, VPN, MPLS WAN, SD-WAN, QoS, ACI, Azure ExpressRoute,

Security solutions - Email, endpoint, web, firewalls, IPS, IDS, WAF, PKI, VPN, MFA and other identity management services

Telephony and collaboration – Traditional PBX and VOIP platforms across an international setting. Microsoft Skype and Teams voice integration

Server infrastructure – Virtualisation, storage, managed backup, hyper-converged platforms

Client mobility – Mobile device and app management, security

It would be great if you also have

These are desirable skills or experience and are not essential, so we would welcome applications from candidates that don't match this additional criteria.

Public Cloud technologies – AWS, GCP

Experience of middleware technologies – e.g. Software AG, WebSphere, JBoss

Experience in Infrastructure and application management and monitoring platforms

Web application development understanding and the supporting infrastructure required to improve and support

Knowledge of formal methodologies and frameworks – e.g. TOGAF, ITIL, COBIT, AGILE

Working knowledge of data protection and compliance standards of PCI-DSS and GDPR

 

Our benefits

Boots Retirement Savings Plan

Discretionary annual bonus

Generous employee discounts

Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child

Flexible benefits scheme including option to buy additional holiday, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and much more.

Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.

We have a great range of benefits in addition to the above that offer flexibility to suit you - find out more at boots.jobs/rewards. Exclusions may apply, eligible roles only. Please note, any salary estimates given on third-party sites are not provided or endorsed by Boots and may not be accurate.

 

Why Boots

At Boots, we foster a working environment where consideration and inclusivity help everyone to be themselves and reach their full potential. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, passionate about embracing the diversity of our colleagues and providing a positive and inclusive working environment for all. As the heart of everything we do at Boots, with you, we change for the better.

 

What's next

Where a role is advertised as full-time, we are open to discussing part-time and job share options during the application process. If you require additional support as part of the application and interview process, we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments to help you to be at your best.

This role requires you to complete a Pre-employment check after receiving an offer. Depending on your location you will be asked to submit either a DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service), PVG (Protection of Vulnerable groups) or an Access NI Check.

Boots is a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis.

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