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Managing Solutions Architect
Circa £100,000 - £120,000 + Benefits
UK Countrywide

As a trusted, approved and preferred recruitment partner to this prestigious organisation, we have been asked to assist in the recruitment of a Managing Solution Architect. As a managing solution architect, you will have responsibility for leading a team of architects and overall ownership of the solutions they develop, including their governance as they move through delivery phases. Additionally, you’ll be responsible for work allocation, resource planning, recruiting, capability development, performance management as well as meeting several financial KPIs.
Here are some of the key activities of the role:
• Take ownership of the client requirements, deliverables and accountabilities to ensure adherence to Architecture Governance processes, industry best practices and to maintain consistency with the clients’ Architecture vision
• Drive the solution development and documentation of solution designs ensuring good architectural practices are observed through the lifecycle of the solution development
• Take accountability for both the functional and operational quality of the solutions designed and delivered under your watch
• Improve solution innovation and value for money
• Provide oversight of architectural direction for and on behalf of our clients
• Take ownership of the solutions and be the face off to our internal and external senior stakeholders
• Develop excellent working relationships with our clients to become their trusted advisors through boldness and honesty
• Be able to work confidently with senior members of the client organisation and within the team and to be able to be robust with stakeholders
• Relationship management of the technical relationships with vendors, third parties and the wider company
• Ensure solution delivery is performed according to agreed specification
• Own technical problem management and resolution relevant to the solution development
• Architecture team leadership and management including work allocation, strategy development, recruitment, capability development, performance management and financial KPIs.

Key Responsibilities / Skills:
• Solution architect knowledge and experience
• Solution delivery and quality governance experience
• Architecture team and technical leadership experience
• Thought leadership
• Understanding of modern practices and ways of w

EUC Workplace Architect
Any UK base
£75-110/115K + benefits and bonus (depending on grade)
We are currently looking for a Managing EUC Enterprise Architect to join a leading and innovative cloud team within a global, award winning consultancy. Our client offers excellence in career growth, professional development and a coveted personalised benefits package. The Workplace Architect will contribute to EUC projects, participate in design and supervise build and move to run activities. The team work on a wide range of projects, across a wide range of clients in all sectors.

Responsibilities:
* Service Design: High-level architecture design for core EUC solutions including Windows 10, SCCM and Office 365 Pro Plus
* Plan and prepare design review presentation with Architects and Service Managers to validate or decide on major architecture evolutions
* Service Transition: Supervise strategic partners and subcontractors to produce design, build and deploy new IT services (or service changes)
* Service Catalogue: Maintain service catalogue up-to-date for EUC services
* Develop road map for the organization - Short term and long term Plan
* Design and plan roll out of major upgrades for core EUC solutions (target configuration, deployment method, change process, deployment tools, etc.) including Windows 10 and Office 365 Pro Plus.
* Manage hardware roadmap with vendors to ensure smooth transitions: continuous supply chain globally, support of new models by standard OS images and application support for major business applications.

Key skills
(not all essential; experience in some of the following):
* Computer hardware and accessories (laptop, desktop, workstation, docking station)
* Virtualization solutions (VDI, local hypervisor, IAAS)
* OS and software lifecycle management (Windows/Office/browser, etc. upgrades and other major changes)
* Endpoint security and compliance (antivirus, firewall, disk encryption, data protection)
* Endpoint management (remote control, inventory, application publication, updates, … through SCCM on-premise and InTune)
* Endpoint connectivity (VPN, Wi-Fi
* Endpoint monitoring and diagnostic (average consumption of physical resources, system problems, application problems, using Nexthink or other real-time analytics, instant remediation and automation tools)
* Standard Operating Environment (Windows 10, Azure Virtual Desktop RHEL)
* Device provisioning (offline / online imaging, factory imaging, zero master

EUC Workplace Architect
Any UK base
£75-95K + benefits and bonus (depending on grade)
We are currently looking for an EUC Enterprise Architect to join a leading and innovative cloud team within a global, award winning consultancy. Our client offers excellence in career growth, professional development and a coveted personalised benefits package. The EUC Enterprise Architect will contribute to EUC projects, participate in design and supervise build and move to run activities. The team work on a wide range of projects, across a wide range of clients in all sectors.

Responsibilities:
* Service Design: High-level architecture design for core EUC solutions including Windows 10, SCCM and Office 365 Pro Plus
* Plan and prepare design review presentation with Architects and Service Managers to validate or decide on major architecture evolutions
* Service Transition: Supervise strategic partners and subcontractors to produce design, build and deploy new IT services (or service changes)
* Service Catalogue: Maintain service catalogue up-to-date for EUC services
* Develop road map for the organization - Short term and long term Plan
* Design and plan roll out of major upgrades for core EUC solutions (target configuration, deployment method, change process, deployment tools, etc.) including Windows 10 and Office 365 Pro Plus.
* Manage hardware roadmap with vendors to ensure smooth transitions: continuous supply chain globally, support of new models by standard OS images and application support for major business applications.

Key skills
(not all essential; experience in some of the following):
* Computer hardware & accessories (laptop, desktop, workstation, docking station)
* Virtualization solutions (VDI, local hypervisor, IAAS)
* OS & software lifecycle management (Windows/Office/browser, etc. upgrades and other major changes)
* Endpoint security & compliance (antivirus, firewall, disk encryption, data protection)
* Endpoint management (remote control, inventory, application publication, updates, … through SCCM on-premise and InTune)
* Endpoint connectivity (VPN, Wi-Fi
* Endpoint monitoring & diagnostic (average consumption of physical resources, system problems, application problems, using Nexthink or other real-time analytics, instant remediation & automation tools)
* Standard Operating Environment (Windows 10, Azure Virtual Desktop RHEL)
* Device provisioning (offline / online imaging, factory imaging, zero master
* Office &

Oracle Manufacturing Functional Support Analyst
Location: London, Woking, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Wales, Liverpool or Sheffield (remote for now / flexi working available going forward)
Global Consultancy
Salary circa £75 -90k (flexibility depending on experience) + excellent benefits package
We are currently looking for an Oracle Manufacturing Functional Support Analyst to join a well known, global consultancy.
Key Skills:
You need to be able to be cleared for Government vetting at Security Clearance level.
You will have a strong knowledge of Oracle eBusiness Suite in all areas of Manufacturing.
• Knowledge of Manufacturing modules and be able to explain their associated application processes
• Be able to work independently or with other members in the support team providing Manufacturing Functional assistance to our clients.
• You should be able to manage your tasks and update and resolve incidents/problems according to the client to Service Levels.
• You will be expected to demonstrate an ability to develop other colleagues.
• Provide consultancy in the Manufacturing area of Oracle eBusiness suite, as required by our clients. You will also need to be able to interpret client business requirements and map those requirements to Oracle functionality.
• Update functional specifications and test plans/scripts and also test the Manufacturing application using your core knowledge.
• You will be able to interact and work with other areas of the team (Developers and DBAs), as well as be able to manage SR and liaise with Oracle Support Analysts.

Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd is a leading specialist recruitment business for the IT industry. We will always email you a full role specification, name our client and wait for your email authorisation before we send your CV to this organisation. Deerfoot IT: Est. 1997. REC member. ISO certified. *Each time we send a CV to a recruiting client we donate £1 to The Born Free Foundation (charity no. 1070906)

Cloud Native Architect (ID: 1108321)
£80,000 - £110,000 DOE + Benefits + Bonus
Global Consultancy

As a trusted recruitment partner to this well-known global consultancy, we are assisting in the hire of a Cloud Native Architect to join their fast-growing Public Sector team. You will be responsible for defining and enabling the strategy and approach to Cloud Native, focussing on culture, process, practices, and tools to increase capability to delivery applications and services at high velocity in a sustainable manner.

You will understand key technologies in the Cloud Native domain and have experience using these to deliver cloud native large-scale nationally critical projects. You will have the ability to lead and influence the overall Cloud Native strategy and approach, engaging effectively with cross functional teams and senior stakeholders to build supportable, sustainable, and reliable services.

Skills / Experience Required
o Defining a clear vision / strategy and to promote its adoption across a range of stakeholders.
o Leading implementation of Cloud Native strategies and transformation at scale.
o Expertise in Cloud Native and Virtualisation Platforms (AWS, Azure, OpenStack, VMware, etc.), operating systems (Linux, Windows), infrastructure automation (Ansible, Chef, Packer, Puppet, Terraform) and application hosting technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift etc.).
o Understanding of the practical application of DevOps/SRE philosophy, Agile methods, Infrastructure as Code, and leading teams in an Agile/Lean/Continuous Delivery environment.
o Designing and architecting enterprise and/or web-scale hosting platforms with a focus on security.
o Understand the issues of users and work with them to create solutions that transform industries.
o Experience working with Senior IT groups in an advisory role .
o Experience working with CTO/CIO/COO to create technical strategies.
o Experience in SDLP (software delivery lifecycle process), its optimisation and process enablement including test automation and service virtualisation and infrastructure and application monitoring.
o Understanding of Software Development (Java, Python, Ruby) combined with expertise in design of on-prem/off-prem/hybrid architectures utilising technologies and approaches such as API’s Micro-services, Containers, PaaS, and SaaS.
o Strong presentation skills, able to communicate complex ideas and concepts.

Our client offers hybrid working and most of your time (be

Cloud Solutions Architect
Permanent / Full Time
Salary £60,000 - £110,000 + generous benefits package
Location – London or UK wide in any UK office (London, Woking, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol etc)
Security Clearance Requirement: SC Cleared or Willing to undergo clearance
We are currently looking for a number of Cloud Solutions Architect to join a leading innovative team in a prestigious organisation. Our client offers excellence in career growth, professional development and a coveted personalised benefits package.
You will combine your experience of Cloud architecture, business domain knowledge and your personal skills and credibility to ensure the successful delivery of business objectives. You will be the trusted advisor to key clients and be adaptable enough to be able to get hands on to help create solutions.
Essential Skills
• Excellent knowledge and evidence of exploiting at least one major Cloud platform for delivery of cloud-native solutions.
• A self-motivated desire to continually learn and improve.
• Ability to get hands-on with the solution when needed (e.g. technical spikes)
• A strong background enterprise and open-source technologies and frameworks; experience of building scalable, resilient and secured applications.
• Exposure to and some experience of working with structured architecture approaches (e.g. TOGAF).
• Experience of working in Agile / DevOps environments.
• Knowledge of Microservice-based/API-centric architectures
• Containerisation technologies

Responsibilities:
• Work on some of the most bleeding edge cloud-native architectures in development today
• Take end-to-end ownership of shaping solutions and defining the right architectural approach, as well as potentially getting hands-on to deliver.
• Design, and deliver modernisation and transformation strategies to meet client’s requirements
• Work closely with client executives to ensure that strategies and projects deliver the required business outcomes
• Provide business and technical leadership on large client engagements
• Actively contribute to the wider Cloud architecture community
• Maintain technical relationships with our clients and technology partners.

Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd is a leading specialist recruitment business for the IT industry. We will always email you a full role specification, name our client and wait for your email authorisation before we send your CV to this organisation. Deerfoot IT: Est. 1997. REC member. ISO cer

Cloud Architect
Permanent / Full Time
Salary £65,000 - £95,000 + generous benefits package
Location – London or UK wide in any UK office (London, Woking, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow etc)
Security Clearance Requirement: SC Cleared or Willing to undergo clearance
We are currently looking for a Cloud Architect to join a leading innovative data team in a prestigious organisation. Our client offers excellence in career growth, professional development and a coveted personalised benefits package.
The ideal candidate will have a background in in the following areas:
• Containerisation/Serverless including functions, Kubernetes and DevSecOps tooling
• API Management, Microservices, Messaging and Event-Driven Architecture
• Cloud Native Solutions
• Identity and Access Management
• Application Lifecycle Management and DevSecOps
• Contact Centres
The primary role will be to understand the market, influence the roadmap and then design new and existing Cloud Native solutions with a strong focus on security, quality and DevSecOps practices, following by development and operational technical leadership, governance and support. You will be fostering good relationships with clients and internal teams to help them define their strategic direction, understand requirements and design the best-value solution, all while evangelising cloud infrastructure solutions. You will present solutions, contribute to compelling proposals and support commercial and legal activities.
Key Skills:
• Bright, curious, entrepreneurial person who takes initiative and is willing to learn
• Passion to be a part of a cutting-edge team that challenges the status quo
• Good understanding of cloud architecture and interest in applying this to a multi-client environment.
• Good understanding of hyperscaler services.
• A can-do attitude and team player, someone who will do what it takes to deliver a great service
• Good communicator, Ability to influence and coach others, Excellent team working skills, good client facing skills, Problem solving and creativity skills, Honesty and Integrity, Eagerness to learn, Drive and energy
• A product-based mindset.
• Good presentation skills and the ability to take people on a journey.
• Commercial awareness.

Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd is a leading specialist recruitment business for the IT industry. We will always email you a full role specification, name our client and wait for your ema

Senior Solutions Architect
UK wide – office base location flexible - Telford, Southend, Worthing, Holborn, Manchester, Leeds or Newcastle
Salary – £90k - £100k + excellent benefits package
We are seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to join a leading and innovative team within a global, award-winning consultancy. Our client offers excellence in career growth, professional development, and a coveted personalised benefits package.

As a solution architect, you will have responsibility for the ownership of the solution design through the delivery phases, be responsible for working through the technical challenges and decisions in partnership with the project and engagement management communities to safely deliver the solution into Live operation.

The ideal candidate should have experience of a wide range of technologies including public and private cloud business solutions, best practices, and general ways of working.

Responsibilities include:
• Take ownership of the client requirements, deliverables, and accountabilities to ensure adherence to Architecture Governance processes, industry best practices and to maintain consistency with clients’ Architecture vision
• Drive the solution development and documentation of solution designs ensuring good architectural practices are observed through the lifecycle of the solution development
• Provide oversight of architectural direction for and on behalf of our clients
• Working with agile development teams and delivery architects through all phases of the solution lifecycle
• Take ownership of the solutions and be the face off to our internal and external senior stakeholders
• Develop excellent working relationships with our clients to become their trusted advisors through boldness and honesty
• Relationship management of the technical relationships with vendors, third and parties
• Ensure solution delivery is performed according to agreed specification
• Own technical problem management and resolution relevant to the solution development
Key skills
• Experience of client facing roles
• Able to set direction, technical scope and to build / lead teams of technical individuals and manage their technical deliverables
• Excellent communication, influencing and facilitation skills, in particular for problem solving/troubleshooting activities
• Assertiveness in dealing with people at all levels within and outside of the delivery organisation, including partner and client organisations
• Issue

Service Design Manager - ITIL
Global Consultancy
London / remote
Salary £50-60k + bonus and benefits

As a tier 1 preferred supplier to one of the world’s leading consultancies we have be asked to assist with the search and selection of 3 Service Design Managers. The Service Design and Introduction Manager will work within the service integration tower, responsible for ensuring the requirements of operations are represented throughout the project lifecycle and that the projects deliverables are therefore supportable and robust following implementation into the production environment.
Our client is leading a transformation of their customer’s move to the new digital technology and support, which you will play a big part in by coordinating activities to ensure the technology teams receive effective handovers from Project managers and their teams to Operational Support Departments.

The role will largely be working from home but flexibility is required to work on site as required.
Responsibilities include:
• Review Service Impact Assessment and ensure the deliverables are in alignment with contractual obligations.
• Design and document the Service ensuring it is fit for purpose for Service Operations and SLA’s
• Reviewing processes and procedures ensuring they are fit for Service.
• Confirm with Service Portfolio Management that modified or new services need reviewing.
• Ensuring that operational service requirements are articulated and delivered by the Project Manager
• Acting as single point of contact for operational services and Project Managers during all project phases
• Ensuring the Service SD&I Quality Gate process is adhered to, providing support/advice to stakeholders
• Providing status reporting on projects from a Service SD&I perspective.
• Ensuring assessment of the risks to operational support environments has taken place.
• Ensuring operational support teams have been fully engaged and are able to support the required services.
• Ensuring that Architecture, Security and cross tower support functions have been engaged (e.g., Capacity Management, Availability Management) to validate the solution will meet operational requirements


KEY SKILLS (not all essential)
• Ability to ensure the Service Design & Introduction process is carried out for any new or changing services being delivered into our client, following the SD&I process.
• Experience of leading service design and introduction

Mulesoft Developer / Architect – UK - £65k to £110k
Global Consultancy
Location offices to choose from: either London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Wales, Liverpool or Sheffield (remote for now)

As a tier 1 preferred supplier to one of the world’s leading consultancies we have been asked to assist with search and selection of a number of Mulesoft Developers and Architect. The successful candidate work on large Mulesoft integration implementations that will include Hybrid Integration solution for cloud and on-premise systems integration.

Main Responsibilities:
• Work as the mulesoft engineer on the adoption of Hybrid Integration or an iPaaS solutions with a focus on Mulesoft Anypoint platform that includes API Designer, AP manager and API studio
• Responsible for the Mulesoft development and unit testing for the projects
• Responsible for RAML designs and technical specifications for API development
• Responsible for code reviews and ensuring implementation as per best practices and standards
• Become a key contributor and advocate of Microservice, process automations, frameworks in projects
• You will have the opportunity to work with Mulesoft UK and also wider teams on large programs that includes multiple technology streams and complex architecture

Key Skills:
• Knowledge and experience of Mulesoft Dataweave
• Strong communication skills and experience with Distributed Delivery experience (Off-Shore / On-Shore project delivery)
• Passion and a genuine interest for Integration Cloud technologies and products

We are keen to build strong relationships with IT consultants based on providing a transparent and supportive service. Now in our 18th year we pay promptly and are a stable contracting partner in good financial health. Deerfoot IT: Est. 1997. REC member. ISO certified. *Each time we send a CV to a recruiting client we donate £1 to The Born Free Foundation (charity no. 1070906). We never send your CV without your email authorisation.

Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd is a leading specialist recruitment business for the IT industry. We will always email you a full role specification, name our client and wait for your email authorisation before we send your CV to this organisation. Deerfoot IT: Est. 1997. REC member. ISO certified. *Each time we send a CV to a recruiting client we donate £1 to The Born Free Foundation (charity no. 1070906).

Deerfoot is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.