Infrastructure-Technical Architect

Job description

Company Atos

Company Information

Atos SE (Societas Europaea) is a leader in digital services with 2014 pro forma annual revenue of €11 billion and 93,000 employees in 72 countries. It was formed on July 1st 2011 from Atos Origin and Siemens IT Solutions and Services GmbH.

Atos Origin was formed in 2000 when Atos and Origin merged. It grew steadily, not only through acquisition but also through outsourcing deals, staff and technology transfers. In 2002, KPMG Consulting's businesses in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands were acquired to establish Atos Consulting. This transaction provided the Group with a major presence in the Consulting segment of the IT services market.

In 2004 the Sema Group was acquired from Schlumberger in January 2004, thereby creating one of the leading European IT services companies. At the time of the acquisition, Sema Group employed 20,000 staff and generated annual revenues of approximately EUR 2.4 billion. Atos Origin employed 26,500 staff, generating annual revenues of more than EUR 3 billion.

The acquisition of SIS and the Siemens partnership is the logical continuation of the Atos strategy. With a workforce of more than 48,000 employees, Atos Origin generated revenues of over EUR 5 billion during the year 2010.

Job Description

Purpose of Role:
The Technical Architect works on pre-sales, project and account-based assignments to design deliver and assure infrastructure technical solutions.The Technical Architect produces end-to-end solution designs, putting together technologies from multiple IT areas including desktop technologies; mobile devices; Windows, Unix and Linux server technologies; storage solutions; virtualisation, packaged and bespoke applications; network components; infrastructure tooling and ITIL-based processes.

He or she also ensures technical quality and assurance by participating in Architect peer review processes. In this role, the Technical Architect will demonstrate:

·Technical focus and drive

·Vision and innovation

·Commercial awareness

·Quality control and assurance

·Accountability and responsibility

·High quality documentation and communication skills.

·Wintel Design experience design and Implementation.

·Virtualization (VMware, Hyperv) design and Implementation.

·Some Knowledge on cloud solutions.

·Knowledge on Architecture Framework.

Design:
Working within the established frameworks of the SM&A Practice, produce technical solutions, technical designs and lead technical implementation projects that meet client requirements.Collaborate with customer architecture teams to ensure alignment of requirements and solutions and to facilitate design sign-off and approvals.Define and produce appropriate design documentation that is consistent with the solution as it has been specified to the client. Ensure technical designs conform to the Managed Services Technical Strategy and that any exceptions are agreed with, and signed off by, the Chief Technology Office. nderstand the business requirements and contracted services and relate these to design requirements. Understand the technical risks associated with each aspect of the service and/or project, and ensure these are mitigated in the design. Liaise with 3rd Party suppliers and other partners when and where required to meet customer requirements. Work with the service line teams to ensure solutions meet requirements, are supportable and to the approved standards. Have designs peer-reviewed and peer-review the designs of others. Ensure designs are signed off by all necessary parties within the client and Atos.
Implementation:
Work with programme and project managers to produce plans that enable timely delivery technical infrastructure components of projects. Lead technical implementation activities, providing direction to technical specialists. Ensure smooth handover of implemented systems into ongoing support, participating in relevant processes. Assist and advise in troubleshooting technical issues when required

Collaboration:

Regular reporting to Lead Architect, Project Manager, Service Delivery Manager as appropriate. Provide feedback to the SM&A Practice and CTO on suitability of existing policies and standards, and successes and failures of technical solutions. Provide direction and support to technical specialists and less experienced architects. Provide advice and guidance to customers on technical solutions, future strategies and innovations. Contribute to the development of the SM&A Practice. Maintain up to date awareness of developments in the IT industry and identify how appropriate ones can be applied to technical designs. Submit and champion ideas within the MS CTO-led and Atos-wide innovation processes. Contribute to SM&A Practice and wider collaboration activities, seminars and webinars to ensure good communication within the group.

Desired profile

Job Requirements

Role: Technical Architect
Work Location: Pune/Bangalore/Chennai
Experience: 7-15Yrs.

Skills & Competencies:

•Proven skills designing infrastructure solutions from small up to large scale, complex environments across all of the IT stack.

• Experience of working for an organisation in the IT services or consultancy arena.

• Fully understand standard architecture methodologies, processes and best practices.

• Presence and credibility in front of customers.

• Customer relationship development and influencing skills.

• A solid background in a combination of technology domains, including data centre, networks, storage, workplace, identity management, unified communications, disaster recovery, virtualisation, sustainability (Green IT) and security arenas.

• Experience of leading successful technical outcomes and taking ownership of issue resolution.

• Good analytical skills and an ability to define and articulate the precise nature of any given situation appropriately to the target audience whether technical or non-technical.
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills

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