Associate, Technical Architect

EBRD; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent international financial institution based in the UK is seeking an Associate Technical Architect to drive the architectural vision across technology units. You will be responsible for designing solutions that meet business challenges and ensuring the integration of infrastructure technologies. Candidates should have experience with data centre architectures and supporting cloud-native services. The position emphasizes collaboration in a diverse environment that values inclusion and innovation. This is a temporary role with a flexible working schedule.

Benefits

Diverse and inclusive work culture

Flexible working arrangements

Engaging projects with expert interactions

Qualifications

• Experience designing on-premises data centre architectures.
• Proficient in compute infrastructure and enterprise storage solutions.
• Experience supporting high-availability and disaster recovery architectures.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the Architecture of technologies across Infrastructure Squads.
• Support the design and integration of infrastructure platform technologies.
• Ensure effective operation and alignment of Enterprise infrastructure services.

Skills

Designing on-premises data centre architectures

Supporting compute infrastructure

Enterprise storage solutions

High-availability infrastructure architectures

Infrastructure management principles

Collaboration with service providers

Job description

Purpose of Job

The Associate Technical Architect is responsible for realising the architectural vision for the technology and business units by designing and implementing technical solutions that address business or technology challenges.

Accountabilities & Responsibilities

Responsible for the Architecture of technologies across Infrastructure Squads and their integration within the wider Platform Engineering.

Responsible for the support design and integration of infrastructure platform technologies as part of the Platform Architecture.

Ensures effective operation and alignment of Enterprise infrastructure services including compute storage networking hypervisors operating systems and container platforms.

Technology to enable squads to adopt DevSecOps tooling and practices to optimise on-premises workloads.

Supports the implementation and management of enterprise backup Continuous Data Protection (CDP) and workload availability solutions.

Maintains and develops observability platforms for monitoring logging and forecasting across infrastructure services.

Supports the integration of on-premises platforms with hybrid cloud environments.

Responsible for designing and implementing compute and data protection platforms in line with enterprise strategy.

Operates without supervision to manage complexity holistically ensuring infrastructure platforms are secure by design resilient scalable and cost‑effective.

Design and implementation of Compute Infrastructure and Data Protection platforms.

Knowledge, Skills, Experience & Qualifications

Experience in designing, implementing and supporting on-premises data centre architectures.

Proficient in designing, implementing and supporting compute infrastructure (e.g. physical servers, hypervisors), enterprise storage (SAN, NAS, object) and cloud-native services.

Experience in designing, implementing and supporting enterprise backup and data protection platforms.

Experience in designing, implementing and supporting high‑availability infrastructure architectures, disaster recovery and enterprise‑scale solutions.

Understanding of infrastructure management principles, observability, capacity forecasting and resource optimisation practices.

Knowledge of performance monitoring approaches.

Experience working collaboratively with Managed Service Providers and Professional Service Partners.

What is it like to work at the EBRD

Our agile and innovative approach is what makes life at the EBRD a unique experience! You will be part of a pioneering and diverse international organisation and use your talents to make a real difference to peoples lives and help shape the future of the regions we invest in.

The EBRD environment provides you with :

• Varied stimulating and engaging work that gives you an opportunity to interact with a wide range of experts in the financial, political, public and private sectors across the regions we invest in;
• A working culture that embraces inclusion and celebrates diversity;
• An environment that places sustainability, equality and digital transformation at the heart of what we do.

Diversity is one of the Banks core values which are at the heart of everything it does. A diverse workforce with the right knowledge and skills enables connection with our clients brings pioneering ideas energy and innovation. The EBRD staff is characterised by its rich diversity of nationalities, cultures and opinions and we aim to sustain and build on this strength. As such the EBRD seeks to ensure that everyone is treated with respect and given equal opportunities and works in an inclusive environment. The EBRD encourages all qualified candidates who are nationals of the EBRD member countries to apply regardless of their racial, ethnic, religious and cultural background, gender, sexual orientation or disabilities. As an inclusive employer we promote flexible working and expect our employees to attend the office 50% of their working time.

Please note that due to the high volume of applications received we regret to inform you that we are unable to provide detailed feedback to candidates who have not been shortlisted (for further consideration).

Key Skills

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Required Experience : IC

Employment Type: Temp

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1