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    Technology Services Architect - Liverpool, United Kingdom - USS Investment Management Limited

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    Description

    When you join USS, the size and scale of our pension scheme means you will have numerous opportunities to learn and develop your career. Given our size you'll have real autonomy and influence as you collaborate closely with a wide-ranging team of experts.

    About the role

    In your role as Technology Services Architect you will make a meaningful and valued contribution from the outset.

    This role will provide a great opportunity tobe responsible for ensuring that current and new systems fit the USS enterprise environment working to a defined Architecture Engagement Model.

    Understanding how all parts of the business model work including processes, technology, and application architectures.

    Meeting the requirements of the USS and USSIM stakeholders, ensuring functional and operational needs are considered. Translating the technical architecture into the technical project and business project initiatives.

    Taking the role of subject matter experts in their specialism, providing guidance and assistance to all technical teams ensuring the integrity of USS systems.

    Technical Solutions Architects at USS are responsible for assessing the impact of integrating and deploying new technologies into the USS architecture, developing statements of architecture work, defining solution and technical design documents with handover to BAU engineering teams for build.

    What you will be doing

    As a trusted part of the IT you will be responsible for:

    • Working with Project Managers taking new solutions, software, and initiatives through the USS Architecture engagement model
    • Assessing the impact of new technologies being integrated or hosted on Group IT systems in terms of Platform, End User Compute (Laptops & VDI)
    • Producing Statements of Architecture Work outlining deliverables to the business/project management teams
    • Producing high-level solution design documents for review by architecture boards
    • Producing low-level detailed technical design documents to be translated into implementation work packages by either the architect or BAU engineering and operational teams
    • Ensuring the USS technology stack is fit for the organisation, constantly reviewing, and assessing the needs of the business against the technology in operation.
    • Engage and work with other technology teams within the business to develop solutions for future software and hardware solutions
    • Work closely with the IT Architecture Manager to develop technology and project roadmaps
    • Ownership of the governance model and standards for the deployment of new technologies
    • Keep up to date with new and emerging technologies such as Cloud services and Automation
    • Define standards for operational systems maintenance and system deployments
    • Create solutions prototypes, and designs for new technologies
    • Control solution development and development of roadmaps
    • Participate in the technology direction for the organisation
    • Solution development and control
    • Infrastructure and Cloud (Azure / AWS) design and governance
    • Project and product management
    • Hands-on approach to new technology and deploying new technology
    • Present solutions to senior IT / group management for consideration

    About you

    We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they don't tick every box, if you're excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience we're looking for, then please apply, regardless of whether you meet all the requirements outlined in this profile.

    To be successful in the role you will have:
    • Strong experience and knowledge of core USS technologies including server technology stacks, storage & capacity management, virtualisation platforms and Microsoft ADDS
    • End user technologies and controls such as MDM, VDI and security
    • Able to effectively manage a technical workload, both project and BAU
    • Experience of producing high and low-level technical design documentation
    • Requirement gathering & translation to solutions
    • Backup management and planning
    • Office365 and other cloud services
    • Datacentre in the cloud
    • High availability & DR

    How we will reward you

    • Generous annual leave package
    • Access to a high quality pension scheme provided through Universities Superannuation Scheme
    • Supportive people policies (including enhanced occupational sickness pay and family friendly pay)
    • Financial contributions towards your personal development to help you maintain your physical and mental wellbeing
    • Access to a range of health and wellbeing services i.e., private healthcare, discounted gym membership
    • Learning and development opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and talent
    • Employee Volunteer Day's to support the communities where you work and live
    • Cycle to Work Scheme

    Our culture and values

    Our people are what makes us different. We work together to create a diverse and inclusive culture that embraces individuality, where people are welcomed and feel comfortable in the knowledge that they can be themselves. Our purpose firmly states the importance of members, putting them 'front and centre' of what we do. This is embedded through our values:

    • Integrity

    About us

    Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) was established in 1974 as the principal pension scheme for universities and higher education institutions in the UK. We work with around 330 employers to help build a secure financial future for more than 528,000 members and their families. We are one of the largest pension schemes in the UK, with total assets of around £75.5bn (at 31 March To find out more, please visit

    USSL is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We strive to ensure our recruitment process is as flexible and inclusive as possible so we can attract diverse candidates and recruit the best talent. We want all candidates to perform at their best during the recruitment process, so if you need any reasonable adjustments or if there is anything we can do to help support you through your recruitment journey please let us know by contacting . #J-18808-Ljbffr

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