Technology Architect - Azure Architect - London, UK

We are looking for an Enterprise Architect to establish, maintain and evolve Architecture Baseline within the customer engagement. Will need to drive Architecture principles and standards within Change programmes and projects, taking a consultative approach with internal and external stakeholder on meeting business demands with least disruption and in a cost-efficient manner. The person will need to be a technology evangelist keeping in pace with technology developments especially around Cloud Migrations & IT Infrastructure, continuously assessing its suitability for customer demands. Where and when necessary, will need to work with ecosystem of Customers, OEMs, sub-contracting partners and internal teams to enable and drive adoption by undertaking Proof of Concepts, Proof of Solutions and Pilots. Will need to liaise with customer stakeholders across Transformation (Change Owners), Operations (Service Owners) and interact with Business Owners in support of Architecture Activities.
Responsible for coordination with Project Managers, IT Infrastructure teams, and external vendors in Design and Architecture Assurance capacity. This role provides technical and business guidance, review and oversight of related work products, and serves as an escalation point for queries that span technology choices, architecture design decisions, tools choice, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, across Cloud, On-premise and applications landscape . Will need to maintain strong knowledge of and relationship with Customer and OEM leadership, with an insights on their challenges, working style, and operational requirements., 1. Establish baseline of current Architecture.
2. In consultation with stakeholders, develop and maintain target state of Architecture with a roadmap for achieving it. The roadmap must be clear in capturing projects required in different scope areas, high level dependencies, sequencing, business case feasibility and indicative costs.
3. Drive architecture governance, including participation in review, approvals and being focal point for Architecture queries.
4. Continuously learn, understand, assess, guide, and advise stakeholders with regards to disruptive technologies and trends.
5. Work closely with Architects, Program Managers, Project Managers and Delivery Managers across customer, internal and external eco-system
6. Actively participate in critical, large scale or complex projects such as migration from on-premise to public cloud platforms.
7. Conduct periodic architectural evaluation, compliance check and identify the need for design and analysis of enterprise-wide systems.
8. Stimulate thinking and potential project pipeline in areas such as Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Networks, Digital Workplace, Security, Data and Apps.
9. Work with demand managers to understand requirements (such as Request for Solution) to identify scope areas, potential impacts, assessment of project way forward, estimation for design, deployment and operations.
10. Support project initiation and drive decisions in design, architecture and technology choices through informed logic (such as cost, performance, strategic alignment)
11. Review new and ongoing projects architecture for compliance with IT standards, policies and architectural plans.

1. Minimum 5yrs experience as Enterprise Architect with demonstrable skills in solution design for complex infrastructure transformation heavy engagements (on-premise and public cloud mix)
2. Excellent English communication skills - both written and verbal
3. Strong understanding of architectural frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman
4. Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills
5. Ability to work in a multi-cultural high paced environment where teams operate from multiple time zones.
6. Strong problem-solving skills.
7. Ability and flexibility to work from Infosys or Customer offices on a regular basis, on need basis or on short notice.
8. Proficiency and self-reliance on use of productivity tools (such as office suite, project planning and management tools, reports, presentations)
9. Proficiency in modelling and graphical representation of Architecture

PREFERRED ATTRIBUTES
1. Accredited Professional Certification (such as TOGAF, Zachman)
2. Trainings and certifications on cloud technologies (such as Azure, IBM Cloud)
3. Experience of IBM Cloud will be a plus.