Infrastructure Architecture Lead

The University of Sheffield; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave benefits

Hybrid working opportunities

Staff discounts

Learning & mentoring

Job summary

The University of Sheffield is seeking a Lead Domain Architect – Infrastructure to define and govern its infrastructure architecture, ensuring secure, resilient and scalable technology platforms aligned to strategic goals. You will lead a small team, set standards, and collaborate with product, project and engineering groups to optimise investments.

You will drive architectural design for major initiatives, mentor architects, and help transform services while focusing on sustainability and

Qualifications

• Significant practical experience as an enterprise, solution, domain or systems architect in a large, complex organisation.
• Experience of undertaking complex analysis, facilitating and re-designing strategically critical business systems.
• Broad knowledge of networking, cloud, end user computing, identity, virtualisation, storage, compute and enterprise infrastructure technologies.
• Experience developing technology roadmaps and target architectures.
• Strong collaboration and influencing skills with both technical and non-technical colleagues across the organisation to assure solution design.
• Strong analytical and conceptual thinking with the ability to translate business strategy into technology roadmaps.
• Ability to learn new technologies and techniques quickly, while ensuring governance and policy requirements.
• Experience with recognised methods (TOGAF), notation standards (ArchiMate), and agile environments with strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the University’s Infrastructure Architecture capability within the Architecture Practice.
• Provide day-to-day leadership, mentoring and professional development for the Cloud Architect and End User Compute Architect.
• Build a collaborative architecture culture focused on innovation, consistency and continual improvement.
• Support the Lead Architect in developing the overall Architecture Practice, governance processes and standards.
• Lead the architectural design of major infrastructure initiatives including cloud adoption, networking, hosting, identity, end user technologies, data centre modernisation and technology refresh programmes.
• Work with Solution Architects to ensure infrastructure requirements are appropriately incorporated into project architectures.
• Support engineering teams in developing detailed technical designs while maintaining architectural integrity.
• Ensure infrastructure solutions deliver appropriate levels of resilience, performance, availability, security and operational supportability.
• Build strong relationships with senior technical leaders, product teams, project managers and suppliers.
• Lead the organisation in exploiting technology, using knowledge of IT solutions to support innovative and high-impact business capabilities.
• Maintain awareness of emerging technologies that might benefit the University, identifying and mitigating business and architectural risks.
• Provide architectural guidance and technical support to project teams, assisting with business cases and reviewing vendor proposals for architectural alignment and cost-effectiveness.
• Support engineers in developing engineering level designs and embed the University's sustainability principles in all activities.
• Carry out other duties, commensurate with the grade and remit of the post

Skills

Networking

Cloud computing

End user computing

Identity management

Virtualisation

Storage technologies

Enterprise infrastructure

Architecture governance

Education

TOGAF knowledge

ArchiMate notation

Job description

The University of Sheffield is seeking a Lead Domain Architect – Infrastructure to define and govern its infrastructure architecture, ensuring secure, resilient and scalable technology platforms aligned to strategic goals. You will lead a small team, set standards, and collaborate with product, project and engineering groups to optimise investments.

You will drive architectural design for major initiatives, mentor architects, and help transform services while focusing on sustainability and