Principal Architect Facilities and Data Centre Design

Experis - ManpowerGroup; London; Remote; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cybersecurity client seeks a Principal Architect for Facilities and Data Centre Design, with responsibilities including crafting strategic roadmaps, defining architectural requirements, and ensuring best practices. This role requires a seasoned professional with extensive experience in Data Centre design and management, offering a unique opportunity to shape national cybersecurity initiatives.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of experience in Data Centre architectural design.
• 2 years of experience in solution design.
• Expert-level skills in Data Centre architecture and design.

Responsibilities

• Developing a Data Centre and Operational environment strategy and roadmap.
• Evaluating physical and security site considerations for national-level cyber capability.
• Creating RFPs and an implementation roadmap for Data Centres.

Skills

Data Centre architectural design

Solution design

Technical capabilities translation

Industry best practices

Job description

Role: Principal Architect Facilities and Data Centre Design

Location: UK Remote - Monthly travel required to the Middle East (Expensed)

Duration: 4/6 Months

Day rate: £745 inside IR35

Our client is leading an exciting opportunity to define a strategic 2030 National Cyber Security Capability. The role involves collaborative work with a consortium of top Cyber companies. The successful candidate will work closely with customers, strategists, and business analysts to define Data Centre and Operational environment strategies, objectives, high-level use cases, and physical site and security considerations. Responsibilities also include defining architectural requirements and generating RFPs for implementation phases.

Key responsibilities include:

• Developing a Data Centre and Operational environment strategy and roadmap.
• Assessing scalability and functional requirements for immediate and long-term needs, including migration plans for existing Data Centres and Operational Centres.
• Defining Business Continuity and Resilience requirements.
• Evaluating physical and security site considerations for a national-level cyber capability, including physical, virtual, environmental, networking, and connectivity requirements.
• Creating RFPs and an implementation roadmap for Data Centres and operational environments.
• Ensuring industry best practices are followed for architecture design.
• Translating strategic and business requirements into functional and non-functional specifications across people, processes, and technology.
• Contributing to the operational cost model for service delivery.
• Defining build and transition roadmaps for Data Centres.
• Conducting gap analysis between current capabilities and future roadmap.
• Identifying opportunities for reuse, simplification, and productisation within the architecture stack.

Qualifications and experience required:

• At least 10 years of experience in Data Centre architectural design and specification, including 2 years in solution design.
• Expert-level skills in Data Centre architecture and design.
• Strong understanding of translating service and operating models into technical capabilities.
• Previous experience leading Data Centre development and infrastructure design.
• Deep knowledge of Data Centre power, cooling, cabling, networking, space, security, and recovery requirements.