Cloud Architect

Job Title: Cloud Architect

Location: Manchester

About the Job you are considering:

We are seeking experienced Cloud Architect with strong expertise in Banking and Finance domain who will overseeing the planning, execution, and successful delivery of projects

Hybrid working:

The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

Your Role:

Infrastructure Solution Architect Key accountabilities

• Produce infrastructure design documentation based on a solution architecture to be implemented by a 3rd party supplier
• To coordinate accurate estimates for inclusion in end-to-end project costs and business cases and to assist with the estimates for the end-to-end IT costs of the Cooperative Bank Leadership within projects of technical resources and SMEs
• Input to infrastructure solution frameworks and patterns displaying awareness of external markets and suppliers so that the best value for money and service is delivered
• Ensure that clear root cause is established for incidents impacting the deliverables of the infrastructure
• CoE and that these issues are addressed Work with 3rd party supplier build teams development and test environment leads to ensure that solutions implemented across the Bank project portfolio are compliant to design Involvement with 3rd parties to design product integration to existing new solutions
• Act as a technical escalation point and convene troubleshooting teams to ensure rapid identification and resolution of infrastructure issues Provide design inputs to areas of expertise such as Mainframe
• Networks Wintel Database or Connect Direct Responsibility for producing and assuring design patterns
• Responsibility for producing and assuring Infrastructure Roadmaps Provide technical escalation point for production services Provide technical escalation point during build phase of new production services
• Knowledge skills and experience required Extensive experience in VM Ware Platforms and Infrastructure
• Solutions Networking Environments Firewall Knowledge Extensive expertise in leading infrastructure solution design and process improvement activities within an IT operational environment which resulted in improved efficiency performance and financial benefit
• Excellent communication and influencing skills for dealing with internal management and teams’ liaison with business partners and customers and external IT service providers
• Excellent technical authoring skills Additional desirable technical skills
• Mainframe CICS COBOL Objecstar CA Datacom VSAM etc UNIX Environments AIX LINUX Solaris etc
• Wintel Storage Desktop Environments Data Centre Hosting Cloud Services and integration Mobile and BYOD Middleware and Integration IBM Message Broker DataStage etc

We are a Disability Confident Employer:

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

• Declare they have a disability, and 
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Please opt in during the application process.

Make It Real (what does it mean for you):

• You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation.  We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. 
  To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
• You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
• You will be joining one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®, as recognised by Ethisphere® for 13 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.

Why you should consider Capgemini:

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask.  When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts.  We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible.  It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future.  By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini:

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.
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