Lead Enterprise Architect - Cloud Solutions

Virtual Hire Staffing; Hamm; Hybrid; EUR 128.000 - 175.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Virtual Hire Staffing is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead a major transformation initiative. The role focuses on private cloud, public IaaS/PaaS (AWS and Azure), networking, and digital workplace services, ensuring alignment with best practices and global standards.

This client-facing position bridges pre-sales, solutioning, and hands-on technical design, and requires strong leadership, stakeholder management, and the ability to translate business goals into scalable

Qualifikationen

• Extensive hands-on AWS and Azure cloud experience.
• Experience with private cloud, virtualization and containers.
• Expert level in IaC and enterprise tooling.
• Strong networking and storage knowledge.

Aufgaben

• Define transformation strategies and 1-2 year technical visions.
• Architect complex private/public cloud, networking, and digital workplace solutions.
• Assist sales and delivery with solution design, costing, and reviews.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor architects.
• Ensure designs align with enterprise standards and security best practices.

Tools

AWS

Azure

Private Cloud

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

ServiceNow CMP

SolarWinds

SCOM

VMware IaaS

Hitachi

Dell Storage

NetApp

Jobbeschreibung

Required Skills

• iaas
• paas
• aws
• azure
• private cloud

Job Summary

Enterprise Architect – Contract - London Hybrid

Location: London (Liverpool Street Office, 1-2 days per week)

Duration: 6 Months

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Enterprise

Architect / Practice Lead to join a major transformation initiative. You will take ownership of private cloud, public IaaS/PaaS (AWS and Azure), networking, and digital workplace services, ensuring all transformation strategies and project deliveries comply with best practices and uniform global standards.This is a high-impact, client-facing role that bridges pre-sales, solutioning, and hands‑on technical design. You will lead architectural alignment between regional business stakeholders and the Global Technology organisation.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Transformation:

Define transformation strategies, present to executive steering committees, and establish clear 1-2 year technical visions.

Solution Architecture:

Architect highly complex solutions across private cloud, public cloud, networking, and digital workplace environments, balancing cost, performance, and scalability.

Pre-Sales & Delivery:

Assist sales and delivery teams with solution design, effort estimation, costing, and successful execution through Deliverability Assessment Reviews (DA Reviews).

Technical Leadership:

Provide thought leadership on emerging technologies, mentor junior solution architects, and remain hands‑on where required to unblock technical teams.

Governance & Standards:

Ensure designs adhere to enterprise architecture standards, cloud industry security best practices (CSA & NIST), and published reference architectures.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Background: Significant professional technical and IT operations experience within a large‑scale, multinational technology services environment, backed by a strong systems engineering foundation.
• Cloud & Virtualisation: Extensive hands‑on expertise with AWS, Azure, Private Cloud (VMware IaaS, Azure AVS, VxRail, ESX, vSAN), and containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes, CaaS, FaaS, Serverless).
• Storage Technologies: Demonstrable experience working with Hitachi, Dell, and NetApp storage solutions.
• Infrastructure as Code & Tooling: Comprehensive experience implementing and integrating multiple IaC and management toolsets (e.g., Terraform, ServiceNow CMP, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SolarWinds, SCOM) at an enterprise scale.
• Architecture & Networking: Deep knowledge of networking principles (TCP/UDP, routing, SDN), Linux / Windows OS internals, multi‑tenanted virtualised platforms, and microservice/event‑driven architectures.
• Consulting & Communication: Outstanding stakeholder management, client engagement, negotiation, and written/verbal communication skills.