Our Higher Education client has a requirement for a Solution Architect on an initial 3 month contract inside IR35. This will be hybrid working with 2 days a week onsite in Manchester.

The primary focus of this role will be to drive delivery of the "Colleague and Student Compute" and "Environments" workstreams.

Colleague and Student Compute
* An improved experience for students in the PC cluster environments and a more robust service for colleagues.
* A new PC cluster provisioning service, including upgraded hardware, provisioning technologies, and a strategy for PC clusters linked to the Teaching and Learning strategy.
* Processes for preparing and issuing new University-managed devices to colleagues and postgraduate researchers using automation technology.
* Stronger links between IT Services and the Teaching and Learning community for colleague and student computing services.
* Knowledge of technologies such as Parallels, AppsAnywhere and Tanium would be of benefit.

Environments:
* Delivering on-demand, high availability, reusable, stable and managed environments utilising industry-standard tools.
* On-demand & Automated builds for environments for our core systems.
* Improved release management & data obfuscation technologies & processes.
* Robust guidelines, standards and governance.
* Knowledge of technologies such as Nutanix, VMWare and Terraform would be of benefit

The person
* You will have great engagement, collaboration and influencing skills.
* As a great communicator, you'll be able to use your experience to help others, giving guidance and support to a diverse range of people in realising and implementing solutions.
* You will be comfortable presenting highly complex information and strategic plans to groups of varying stakeholders.
* You'll have a breadth of technical skills, knowledge and experience across and a broad range of applications, technologies and data.
* You'll be comfortable working within a complex, heavily integrated system landscape. * Experience with TOGAF, SAFe or other architectural frameworks would also be desirable, as would a good understanding of modern security principles and processes.


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