My client, a global tier 1 bank in London, Canary Wharf is looking for a LEAD Infrastructure Solution Architect. This will be a rolling 6 month contract, paying up to £650 per day. Infrastructure Architecture concentrate on governance and bringing forth new technologies for use in the Global Banking & Markest space, based on business requirements, responsible for: * Investigating new infrastructure technologies which provide solutions to current problems / Proof of Concept Work * Technical Service Catalogue * Infrastructure Architecture Designs, approved by the relevant approval board * Keeping up to date with business road maps, technology roadmaps and feeding wider business IT requirements into central infrastructure engineering and strategy teams * Use of knowledge of the exiting client business, applications and infrastructure to pro-actively make recommendations where it can be seen that improvements can be made * Provide proper governance around IT and contribute The role focuses on both Architecture: * Determine business requirement and influence solution towards ITO future state model * Gauge strategic impact to business function, impacted upstream and downstream services and subsequent technology footprint * Ensure logical design contributes to asset class technology objectives * Examine potential demise opportunities and propose deployment options * Consider service placement requirements And Design: * Ensuring end to end completeness of technical design, including NFRs realised and validated * Verify impact to adjacent services/systems and Validate deployment and support model * Qualify R2 acceptance of all components * Review design and gain approval via SAB * Finalised commercials and approval Have a good understanding of Front (FX, EQ, PB, FI, Credit, EM), Middle (Risk, Compliance, Treasury) and Back (Operations) office businesses. Able to translate business needs into appropriate IT solutions. Have a systems engineering discipline background with exposure to: * Operating systems internals, benchmarking and performance tuning, systems admin (Solaris, Linux, Windows) * Web applications servers (IIS, MQ, Apache, Websphere, Weblogic) * Databases (Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL) * Storage (EMC SAN, Netapp NAS, Backups) * Market Data and Networking (RMDS, Cisco, Solarflare, Wombat) * Middleware and Grid (RMDS, MQ, RV, 29West, Datasynapse * End to end agile infrastructure architecture across all layers * Trading Technologies and ISVs * Complex Event Processing, Grid, Data Grids. Java/ Java GUI, XML/ XSLT, HTML/ Java Script APPLY ASAP
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