Senior Network Solutions Architect
Recruiter
Coventry Building Society
Listed on
8th September 2020
Location
Coventry
Salary/Rate
£70000 - £80000
Type
Permanent
Start Date
ASAP
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About The Role As the second largest Building Society in the UK and the 8th largest lender, we know a thing or two about Savings and Mortgages. The Society has grown significantly over the past decade in particular and now has over 2,500 employees and 1.8 million members. The Society is a Which recommended savings provider and we're proud to be one of the Times Top 100 Best Companies to work for.This is a key role in the Enterprise Architecture team, providing an exciting opportunity for someone with extensive experience of network strategy, solutions architecture and oversight, who can confidently act as a direction setter and subject matter expert, engaging positively with key business and technical stakeholders. You will be responsible for providing expertise and leadership as follows:
Strategic direction setting and roadmap preparation
Produce and deliver high quality high and low level network designs to meet business objectives and satisfy all relevant regulatory and operational risk controls
Propose and set society network patterns and standards and relentlessly apply them and seek maximum reuse
Participate in project priming, help to build the case for investment as part of the Business Planning and Enterprise Architecture process, involvement at early feasibility and ideation to shape and align to strategic technology direction
Build high confidence of delivery quality and drive consistency of design across initiatives
Analyse technical dependencies and work with architecture peers to understand enterprise-wide linkages, impact of changes / slippages, technology risks, issues and debts and feedback areas of IT fragility into the IT backlog of work.
Proactively bring clarity to any solution uncertainty and influence, lead towards successful business solution outcomes
Ensure an appropriate level of governance is applied to technology solution choices
Provide leadership and direction to maintain solution integrity, ensuring requirements are met About You Essential Technical Skills:
Telecommunications network design
User and supplier / 3rd party remote access
Expert understanding of network devices, particularly Cisco infrastructures
Detailed understanding of network security concerns
WAN, LANs including contact centres, and Corporate and guest Wifi
Data Centre network design supporting HA and DR requirements
Hybrid Cloud Networks
A variety of Network monitoring systems and tools experience
Understanding of current and future networking trends
Highly desirable Technical skills:
Experience operating as the network design governance / authority
Software defined networking, SDWAN and Cisco ACI
Strong Cloud Networks and Infrastructure experience (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Coding and Infrastructure as Code
