Delivery focused solutions architect, able to lead on troubleshooting issues with infrastructure implementation and application migration.
Act as a design authority for the e2e hybrid cloud solution.
Network specialization but with general DC infrastructure familiarity.
Experience of some of the following technologies required:
Hybrid cloud migration.
Cisco ACI
Cisco UCS
Cisco Firepower
General WAN/BGP
IBM FS9k storage
AWS foundational hosting and networking
AWS advanced networking

Duties:
Set implementation strategy for migration into the target environments.
Lead on problem solving/design decisions on complex application migration issues.
Communication of complex technical issues into customer's architecture and management tiers and achieve risk based decisions.

Location: West Midlands – on site presence required min 4 days per week.

CHECK BEFORE YOU APPLY :

● Must be eligible to work in the UK/EU and no sponsorship will be provided.

● Proven experience

● No CCJs

● Fully completed applications

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• Assist with the project of migration applications from  G2 (XenApp 6.5/Server 2008 R2) to G3 (XenApp 7.15/Server 2016) platform.
• Build out additional XenApp servers or convert existing G2 VMs to G3 to host the applications
• Assist application teams in testing and troubleshooting application deployments from a Citrix and AppV infrastructure standpoint
• Assist in the migrating of applications from G2 to G3
• Tracking and reporting of application migrations
• Decommissioning applications in G2
• Assess and implement a series of improvements highlighted in a 3rd party review
• Assess, design and implement a series of improvements to the shared VDI service
• Assist in addressing several businesses as usual (BAU) operational issues with the existing service – working closely with the business-aligned IT teams and users
• Work along aside other infrastructure towers to address supporting issues
• Support a series of published app migrations
• Build out additional XenApp servers or convert existing G2 VMs to G3 to host the applications
• Assist application teams in testing and troubleshooting application deployments from a Citrix and AppV infrastructure standpoint
• Migrate applications from G2 to G3
• Tracking and reporting of application migrations
• Decommissioning applications in G2

The VDI Systems Integration Specialist Advisor is a seasoned professional with a proven track record of relying on their innovation, creativity, technical prowess and leadership skills to deliver robust, efficient and stable solutions to their clients. The Advisor is a resource who has demonstrable experience supporting and managing large enterprise environments, marrying complex business requirements to progressive design solutions, and overseeing the transition to production. Applicants should be highly-motivated, technology driven, possess strong communications skills, can develop strong cross-group collaboration and is willing to take on the challenge of dealing with ambiguity. Candidate should also have a broad understanding of both server and desktop/application virtualization.

Job Duties:
- Support complex system configurations and standards for Citrix, VMware and MS HyperV platforms
- Assess, recommend, plan, and implement complex VDI / App Delivery Virtualization projects using various technologies
- Develop repeatable standards and implementation processes to ensure product uniformity and quality
- Directly interact with clients, account managers, and peers in support of complex VDI/ App Delivery environments
- Serve as a technical escalation point in support of high risk, complex operational challenges
- Apply best practices, strategies, methodologies, and approaches to large scale projects
- Participate in the creation of work instructions and knowledge base articles and support doc
- Participate in the Change Management and other ITIL processes
- Responsible for building and maintaining strong relationships with internal customers and vendors and able to thrive in the ever changing work environment

Required Skills:
- 7+ years of IT infrastructure technical implementation experience required
- Direct involvement in working with internal and external teams to engineer, implement, and support configurations - hardware, software and services
- 7+ years engineering experience related to x86 technical offerings such as VMware, Microsoft, and Citrix
- Advanced and proven track record of engineering and supporting highly available Citrix environments involving XenApp and/or XenDesktop. (Citrix Certified Professional – Virtualization (CCP – V) highly preferred)
- Technical Knowledge on VMware product line (vSphere, Horizon View in particular) and, SQL. (VCP - VMware Certified Professional highly preferred)
- Extensive skills with Windows Networking, Active Directory, and profile management
- Networking concepts (TCP/IP, Routing, Firewalls, Network Security)
- Thorough understanding of enterprise datacenter technologies including Networking, Security, TCP/IP, SAN and NAS,physical datacenter practices
- Demonstrated ability to assess, implement and troubleshoot IT Infrastructure systems and configurations in the designated practice using procedures, scripts, and templates
- Demonstrated engineering expertise (gather requirements, problem solve and recommend) in mid-sized and Fortune 1000 customer environments
- Command line, PowerShell and other scripting for administration and support - experience with automation products (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, VMware vRO) is considered an advantage
- Experience with and working knowledge of Storage Area Networks
- Working with any of the following applications is considered an advantage:Thinapp, AppLayering,Appsense
- Cloud solutions or certifications Azure\AWS is considered an advantage

VERIFY BEFORE YOU APPLY :

• Must be eligible to work in the UK/EU and no sponsorship will be provided.
• Proven experience
• Fully completed applications

Employer will only accept "completed profile card" of BeatMySalary, so kindly sign-in/sign-up and have a profile card completely filled in before applying to the job using the same.

• Assist with the project of migration applications from  G2 (XenApp 6.5/Server 2008 R2) to G3 (XenApp 7.15/Server 2016) platform.
• Build out additional XenApp servers or convert existing G2 VMs to G3 to host the applications
• Assist application teams in testing and troubleshooting application deployments from a Citrix and AppV infrastructure standpoint
• Assist in the migrating of applications from G2 to G3
• Tracking and reporting of application migrations
• Decommissioning applications in G2
• Assess and implement a series of improvements highlighted in a 3rd party review
• Assess, design and implement a series of improvements to the shared VDI service
• Assist in addressing several businesses as usual (BAU) operational issues with the existing service – working closely with the business-aligned IT teams and users
• Work along aside other infrastructure towers to address supporting issues
• Support a series of published app migrations
• Build out additional XenApp servers or convert existing G2 VMs to G3 to host the applications
• Assist application teams in testing and troubleshooting application deployments from a Citrix and AppV infrastructure standpoint
• Migrate applications from G2 to G3
• Tracking and reporting of application migrations
• Decommissioning applications in G2

The VDI Systems Integration Specialist Advisor is a seasoned professional with a proven track record of relying on their innovation, creativity, technical prowess and leadership skills to deliver robust, efficient and stable solutions to their clients. The Advisor is a resource who has demonstrable experience supporting and managing large enterprise environments, marrying complex business requirements to progressive design solutions, and overseeing the transition to production. Applicants should be highly-motivated, technology driven, possess strong communications skills, can develop strong cross-group collaboration and is willing to take on the challenge of dealing with ambiguity. Candidate should also have a broad understanding of both server and desktop/application virtualization.

Job Duties:
- Support complex system configurations and standards for Citrix, VMware and MS HyperV platforms
- Assess, recommend, plan, and implement complex VDI / App Delivery Virtualization projects using various technologies
- Develop repeatable standards and implementation processes to ensure product uniformity and quality
- Directly interact with clients, account managers, and peers in support of complex VDI/ App Delivery environments
- Serve as a technical escalation point in support of high risk, complex operational challenges
- Apply best practices, strategies, methodologies, and approaches to large scale projects
- Participate in the creation of work instructions and knowledge base articles and support doc
- Participate in the Change Management and other ITIL processes
- Responsible for building and maintaining strong relationships with internal customers and vendors and able to thrive in the ever changing work environment

Job Duties:
- Support complex system configurations and standards for Citrix, VMware and MS HyperV platforms
- Assess, recommend, plan, and implement complex VDI / App Delivery Virtualization projects using various technologies
- Develop repeatable standards and implementation processes to ensure product uniformity and quality
- Directly interact with clients, account managers, and peers in support of complex VDI/ App Delivery environments
- Serve as a technical escalation point in support of high risk, complex operational challenges
- Apply best practices, strategies, methodologies, and approaches to large scale projects
- Participate in the creation of work instructions and knowledge base articles and support doc
- Participate in the Change Management and other ITIL processes
- Responsible for building and maintaining strong relationships with internal customers and vendors and able to thrive in the ever changing work environment

Required Skills:
- 5+ years of IT infrastructure technical implementation experience required
- Direct involvement in working with internal and external teams to engineer, implement, and support configurations - hardware, software and services
- 5+ years engineering experience related to x86 technical offerings such as VMware, Microsoft, and Citrix
- Advanced and proven track record of engineering and supporting highly available Citrix environments involving XenApp and/or XenDesktop. (Citrix Certified Professional – Virtualization (CCP – V) highly preferred)
- Technical Knowledge on VMware product line (vSphere, Horizon View in particular) and, SQL. (VCP - VMware Certified Professional highly preferred)
- Extensive skills with Windows Networking, Active Directory, and profile management
- Networking concepts (TCP/IP, Routing, Firewalls, Network Security)
- Thorough understanding of enterprise datacenter technologies including Networking, Security, TCP/IP, SAN and NAS,physical datacenter practices
- Demonstrated ability to assess, implement and troubleshoot IT Infrastructure systems and configurations in the designated practice using procedures, scripts, and templates
- Demonstrated engineering expertise (gather requirements, problem solve and recommend) in mid-sized and Fortune 1000 customer environments
- Command line, PowerShell and other scripting for administration and support - experience with automation products (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, VMware vRO) is considered an advantage
- Experience with and working knowledge of Storage Area Networks
- Working with any of the following applications is considered an advantage:Thinapp, AppLayering,Appsense
- Cloud solutions or certifications Azure\AWS is considered an advantage

VERIFY BEFORE YOU APPLY :

• Must be eligible to work in the UK/EU and no sponsorship will be provided.
• Proven experience
• Fully completed applications

Employer will only accept "completed profile card" of BeatMySalary, so kindly sign-in/sign-up and have a profile card completely filled in before applying to the job using the same.

• Accountable and responsible for recommendations concerning Finance architecture solutions on the AI for Invoice Verification project.
• Accountable and responsible for the surfacing and development of all the project Key Design Decisions (KDDs) and project architecture deliverables.
• Accountable for project design reviews.

·         In conjunction with Finance Business Architecture, contributions to the development of all Finance related architecture strategies and portfolio planning.

·         In conjunction with Business Architecture, contributions to the development, enforcement, and project dispensation, for all related project architecture standards.

·         Principal engagement concerning project architectures for the AI for Invoice Verification project.

• Technical leadership for the project on advanced analytics, artificial intelligence (including machine and deep learning), database modernization, coordinate and execute pilots, prototypes or proof of concepts, provide validation on specific scenarios, document and sharing technical best practices.

• Essential

• Experience of executing design authority according to a common architecture process, including the identification of Key Design Decisions
• Experience of operating across infrastructure, business, technology and functional architecture domains
• Extensive experience of working with architecture colleagues to ensure that finance and AI requirements are understood and that individual system changes support the overall blueprint
• Comfortable working with ambiguity and frequent changes in scope.  Must have experience of reviewing impact on the agreed architecture and quickly proposing suitable alternatives

• ·         A strategic outlook and previous experience of developing a 5-year strategy and associated roadmap for a complex and business critical area

  ·         Experience of working with multiple vendors as well as internal IT teams in order to provide architecture coverage at all stages of a project and across all technical components

  ·         Proficient in distributed computing principles and familiar with key architectures including Lambda and Kappa architectures with experience designing solutions using a broad set of data stores (e.g., HDFS, Azure Data Lake Store, Azure Blob Storage, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Apache HBase, Azure DocumentDB), messaging systems (e.g., Apache Kafka, Azure Event Hubs, Azure IoT Hub) and data processing engines (e.g., Azure DataBricks, Azure Data Lake Analytics, Apache Storm, Azure HDInsight).

  ·         Project experience of architecting solutions utilising Azure Cognitive Services, Azure ML Services and Azure DataBricks.

  ·         Deep knowledge of full lifecycle data science projects to build predictive and classification machine and deep learning models.

• Proven leadership to deliver solution architectures for complex solutions across all TOGAF domains (business, data, applications and technology) 
• Architecture & Design (A&D)
  • Possess an Enterprise Architecture viewpoint and able to lead the definition of IT strategies and future applications/services, in alignment with business requirements
  • Have experience in conducting feasibility studies and compared TCO of alternative strategies
  • Managed the governance of strategy and architecture in conjunction with commercial colleagues
  • Experience in scope and requirements management, with ability to drive pragmatic scoping for strategic business change, involve commercial stakeholders in direction setting, and ensure consistency between strategy and execution through the planning process and design authority over project execution
• A&D Consultancy
  • Ability to be seen by commercial teams as the source of strategic guidance on the full range of IT strategy and architecture topics
  • A strategic outlook, previous experience developing architecture strategies and associated roadmaps 
• A&D Technical Specialism
  • Possess deep knowledge of business processes, application solutions, and infrastructure and security solutions relevant to role.
  • Able to use expertise as the basis for leading transformation.
  • Focus on continuous professional development in emerging solutions.
• Business Analysis & Consulting
• Experience in managing complexity, balancing of competing financial, technical and business 
• • requirements to produce optimal strategies, portfolios of projects and underlying solution architecture
  • Able to understand and interpret wisely the underlying organisation politics and motivations of stakeholders
• Project/Work Management
  • Proven ability to manage own and others’ workload, with experience in prioritisation and work/activity planning
  • Experience in leading project governance, business strategy alignment, planning, communications and reporting, stakeholder management, risk management, quality assurance, change management, requirements management, PMO, resource allocation, and procurement
  • Comfortable working with ambiguity and frequent changes in scope.  Must have experience reviewing impacts on existing and developing architecture and quickly proposing suitable alternative solutions where necessary.

•  

  ·         Certification

  o    TOGAF v9

  o    Azure Solution Architect

• Desirable

  ·         Certification

  o    Chartered IT Consultant (BCS)

  o    Azure AI Engineer

  o    Azure Data Scientist

  o    Azure Data Engineer

  Business and IT Knowledge for Settlement, Accounting and Financial Controls:

  ·           Good understanding of the basic business context and requirements associated with Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Cash & Banking, Intercompany Transactions, Asset Accounting, and Cost Accounting

  ·           Solid experience of SAP systems and Finance & Controlling related modules, with good understanding of the associated data and processes

  ·           Familiarity with the reporting and analytics requirements in the Finance space, including submission to segment and group level Finance and Accounting

  ·           Exposure to the wide variety of tools and technologies in the area of Finance Performance Management, reporting and analytics

  Technology Knowledge:

  ·            Familiarity with SAP FICO modules data, tables and functionalities

  ·            SAP Business Warehouse (BW), including data modelling, ETL, report and dashboard design and build.

  ·            Familiarity with S4 HANA, BW HANA platforms.

  ·            Familiarity with a variety of data integration technologies and methods such as ETL, SOA/web services, and MoM (publish-subscribe, Point to Point), SAP Business Intelligence, Tableau, VBA

CHECK BEFORE YOU APPLY :

● Must be eligible to work in UK and no sponsorship will be provided.

● Proven experience

● No CCJs

● Fully completed applications

Employer will only accept "completed profile card" of BeatMySalary, so kindly sign-in/sign-up and have a profile card completely filled in before applying to the job using the same.

If you need help with completing your application profile cards, reach out to the team on jobs@beatmysalary.com  or Whatsapp on +44 7940272803 or call us on +44(0)2032898811

As the successful candidate you will be overseeing all aspects of the company's technology and technology related resources and assets to establish a technological vision for the company that is aligned to the company's overall strategy and that brings accessible technology, innovation and excellence to the business for employees and customers.

You will:

• Develop and maintain clear roadmaps for infrastructure, communications, internal applications and customer/partner facing applications and websites.
• Formulate and agree IT budget and subsequently manage that budget and costs.
• Broaden the skills base in the IT function through recruitment and training to bring in competencies in application development, data management, procurement and project management.
• Day to day management of the IT team, prioritising and monitoring project work.
• Work closely with operational functions to develop and streamline Back Office processes.
• Manage telecommunications infrastructure including the related development plans, projects, policies and procedures.
• Have an awareness of the latest significant trends in technology and its delivery and proactively seek to gain commercial advantage through adoption of appropriate innovations.
• Improve attitudes and competencies in technology across the business particularly related to web based technologies
• Oversee the adoption of appropriate operational processes to ensure that the infrastructure and data is both secure and resilient.
• In collaboration with HR, oversee the adoption across the business of unified communications and appropriate security protocols.
• Attend weekly Operational Board meetings.

You will have:

Technical Skills and Knowledge

• Practical knowledge and experience of networking, storage, communications, hardware and cloud technologies.
• Practical experience of development languages, frameworks, stacks and development approaches including Agile.

Procurement & Vendor Management

• Ability to diligently negotiate commercially sound agreements (terms, conditions and pricing) with vendors of all sizes.
• Proven ability to manage vendor relationships.

Your will receive:

• A salary of up to £90,000
• A discretionary annual bonus scheme of up to 10% of your salary
• 28 days' paid holiday leave
• Company pension scheme
• Private healthcare

If you are interested in this position then please apply ASAP or contact

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