Technical Infrastructure Architect - City of London, United Kingdom - Equiniti

Equiniti
Equiniti
Verified Company
City of London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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Description
_Remote/Hybrid Opportunity - There will be occasional requirements to travel to either the Worthing or Leeds office._

Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries.

EQ's vision is to be the leading global share registrar, offering complementaryservices to its client base and our values set the core foundations to our success.

We are
TRUSTED to deliver on our commitments,
COMMERCIAL in building long term value,
COLLABORATIVE in our approach and we
IMPROVE by continually enhancing our skills and services.


There has never been a better time to join EQ.

Role Summary

Department Information
The Infrastructure Architecture team delivers the technical leadership, governance and infrastructure designs for projects.

This is a small, strong team that engages directly with wider IT support areas, business sponsors and frequently directly with Clients.

There is a strong engagement with the principal technology suppliers, especially Microsoft and Dell, and this provides opportunities for collaboration with them on new pre-release products.


Core Duties/Responsibilities

  • Maintaining an awareness of the wider Equiniti environment by creating and communicating standards, governance processes, approved architecture models, systems and technologies deployed and corporate and IT strategies
  • Acting as a key resource in the project lifecycle, from driving the initiation and infrastructure design, to overseeing implementation
  • Producing high level and detailed technical designs and documentation for complex technical solutions
  • Creating and maintaining a repository for infrastructure artefacts covering the infrastructure architecture continuum
  • Participate in Architecture design reviews and other technical governance forums across the organisation representing the infrastructure team across multiple projects
  • Assisting in defining and maintaining architectural, security and technical standards, reflecting evolving technology and emerging best practice

Skills, Capabilities and Attributes

  • Sound understanding of broader Data Centre technologies (Server, Storage, Networks, Server Virtualisation etc.)
  • Create relevant build and design standards which promote reuse and also shorten the delivery lifecycle of infrastructure assets. Participate in architecture design reviews and provide appropriate architecture governance
  • Track record of successfully achieving project deadlines, budgets and quality standard
  • Industry certification and knowledge of architecture and delivery frameworks a distinct advantage (MCSE, CCNA, TOGAF, Prince2)

Technical Ability
In depth experience of designing, securing, implementing and supporting enterprise solutions in a primarily Microsoft Windows environment, utilising:

  • Microsoft Active Directory spanning multiple forests and sites
  • Core Microsoft technologies e.g. SQL Server, Exchange, SharePoint
  • Deployment, configuration management and monitoring systems, such as Microsoft System Centre
  • Virtualisation of servers & desktops utilising VMware and Microsoft technologies
  • High availability and load balancing including Microsoft clustering and hardware load balancers
  • SAN storage solutions
  • Microsoft 365 Services and Solutions
  • Infrastructure security platforms and tooling
  • Secure File Transfer Platforms and File Services

What We Offer

Save For Your Future - Equiniti Pension Plan; Matched pension contributions up to 10%


All Employee Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) - Gives all EQ Colleagues the opportunity to benefit if the current owners successfully sell the company for a profit


Health and Wellbeing - Employee Assistance Programme: counselling, legal & wellbeing support for colleagues and their households. Life assurance cover at 4x salary


Employee discounts - Discounts and cashback at your favourite high street stores through our EQ Wins Platform.


Flexible Benefits - The ability to purchase a wide variety of benefits through our flex plan; gadgets, travel insurance, will writing, holiday trading and more


Time Off - 28 days holiday + bank holidays. 2 volunteer days to get involved with a charity


Winning together - Equiniti ICON award vouchers; recognising the individuals going above and beyond to help the business succeed
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