Technical Architect, NEC Software Solutions
Specialist software and outsourcing services
Job no longer available
Specialist software and outsourcing services
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
Building software and services that help keep people safer, healthier and better connected worldwide.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for candidates with proven experience producing technical architecture designs within small and medium sized enterprise environments
- Proven experience producing technical architecture designs within a small to medium enterprise environment
- Proven understanding of non-functional requirements and their impact on technical architecture design
- Demonstrates a good working knowledge of end user, compute, networking, storage technologies, including desktop and server virtualisation technologies, network switches and firewalls, perimeter boundary protection, and SANs
- Strong awareness of security to ensure that technical designs provide sufficient protection for workloads
- Experience designing and implementing solutions deployed to a multi-tenanted community cloud platform
- Experience designing and implementing solutions deployed to public cloud platforms
- Experience of a subset of the core NEC technologies:
- Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows, Oracle Solaris, Linux
- Server Virtualisation: VMware vSphere, Oracle OVM for x86 or Oracle OVM for Sparc
- Networking: Cisco Switches, Cisco Firewalls, Palo Alto Firewalls
- Storage: Netapp SANs
- Backup: Dell IDPA, HP Data Protector
- Public Cloud Platforms: Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Oracle OCI
- Experience designing and delivering solutions within the UK Government domain
- Familiarity with compliance & security standards across the enterprise IT landscape such as ISO 27001 and NCSC Cyber Essentials
- Familiarity with ITIL service management principles & tools, and their use in an enterprise environment
What the job involves
- At NEC Software Solutions our Technical Architects undertake many diverse activities creating technical architecture designs for corporate and customer solutions, collaborating with internal stakeholders designing solutions to their complex problems, maintaining and evolving existing solutions and much more
- Technical Architecture work is a combination of technical design, consultancy and guidance, combined with hands-on implementation
- As NEC business units embrace agile and DevOps based software development and delivery models, and look to adopt Public Cloud capabilities, our Technical Architects are pivotal members of the multidisciplinary teams required to achieve effective outcomes
- The Technical Architect will join the central architecture and design team, which comprises a diverse group of architects working across enterprise, security, technical and solution architecture domains
- Produce technical architecture designs meeting business requirements within the overarching architecture framework
- Participate in the technical architecture design peer review process to ensure the high quality of all designs produced by the wider central architecture team
- Present technical architecture designs to the technical assurance board and support the technical assurance process based on specialist knowledge and experience
- Support the implementation of technical architecture designs, provide knowledge transfer to support teams and hands-on support where necessary
- Undertake evaluation of architecture and design options making recommendations to stakeholders that ensure functional and non-functional requirements are met
- Support the technology roadmap process undertaking and presenting investigations related to new and existing technologies enabling controlled introduction of technology adoption
- Undertake continuous learning to maintain knowledge of the key technologies in use by NEC, emerging technology trends, and industry standards to support business innovation through intelligent use of IT
Our take
NEC Software Solutions (formerly Northgate Public Services) is but one branch under the NEC Corporation umbrella. Since its acquisition by NEC Group in 2018 the company has seen substantial growth with NEC's support.
The company’s customer base is rooted in national governments and international health bodies, spanning across police forces, emergency services, local authorities, and housing providers. The company has made numerous strategic partnerships and acquired Vantage Health which has enabled it to better serve communities.
The company is facing challenges as it was ordered by the Competitions and Markets Authority to sell parts of a recent acquisition of Capita Secure Solutions, a software provider for emergency services. This was because the deal meant that ICSS and Duties Software provided by Capita would cost more for publically funded services under NEC. Regardless, NEC Software Solutions’ proven history of success at a global scale and recent start-up investments and partnerships have it well set to remain a leading provider of public sector software and services.
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Company benefits
- Private Medical Healthcare
- Pension Scheme
- Life Assurance
- 25 Days Holiday
- Wellness
- Retail & Lifestyle Discounts
- Flexible Working
- Continued Learning
- CycleScheme
Company values
- Inspiring, because we make the right choices
- Involved, because our enthusiasm creates energy
- Innovative, because we always ask what’s next
Company HQ
Hemel Hempstead Industrial Estate, London, UK
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Leadership
Tina Whitley
(CEO, not founder)Former Executive Director (Government and Housing) for Northgate Public Services. Previous Managing Director (Education and Libraries Software) at Capita Children's Services, and Operations Director EMEA at Convergys.
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