Technical Architect

For one of our customers in the Almelo area we are looking for a freelance Technical Architect.

Location

Almelo area

Start date

a.s.a.p.

Period

6 months+

Availability

Fulltime

Description

Our client is providing services for utility customers worldwide. They play an essential role in the global energy cycle. As a Technical Architect, you will be part of the team delivering a Future State solution. Ensuring that solutions are designed and fully documented for supportability and sustainability. Liaising with Security to ensure the solution is designed and implemented with security considerations in mind from the start. The role is to work as part of the delivery team designing solution as part of a team of architects. Designs will ideally be based on standard “building blocks” therefore it is the responsibility of the architect to guide the customers towards these standards.

Technical Skills

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with demonstrable experience;

• Extensive and demonstrable experience in Hosting Environments - Physical and Virtualized compute platforms (experience of HCI would be an advantage);

• Extensive and demonstrable experience with Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2/2016;

• Experience in Web and Middleware, MS SQL Server, MS IIS, MS Active Directory, MS Exchange and ADFS;

• Experience in Networking (DNS, DHCP, vLANs);

• Experience with System Management Tooling (SCCM, SCOM). Experience of ServiceNow would be an advantage;

• Experience with Modern Management Tooling (Workspace One, Intune);

• Good knowledge Cloud Hosting (Azure, AWS, Google, Office365), End to End Automation and End User Devices (desktop, laptops, tablets – W10);

• Experience with Powershell.

Requirements

• You have good communication skills to technical teams and customers;

• You have excellent technical written skills;

• You have Strong problem solving and analytical skills;

• You have good knowledge of quality standards, legislation and best practice;

• You have the ability to deal with ambiguity, to adapt and prioritize, to work under pressure and meet deadlines;

• You have the ability to design technical infrastructure based on requirements (customer, application and performance) ;

• You have the ability to think ahead and anticipate with problems, issues and solutions.

Personal profile

The ideal candidate is a self-motivated person with a customer focus and professional approach. He or she has the ability to work on his or her own initiative without supervision. The candidate also has excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. He or she is not afraid to challenge requests and clarify business requirements and is comfortable with working directly with customer staff on customer premises. The candidate will also have the ability to travel with appropriate notice to work on customer sites across the UK and globally.

We would like to receive the following information. These are the minimum requirements to the offer:

• A recently updated Curriculum Vitae (MS Word);

• Motivation to the offer;

• Information regarding your availability ;

• Hourly rate (excl. VAT, incl. expenses).

We are looking forward to receiving your offer.