Data Centre Architect (IT)

Role - Principal Architect Facilities and Data Centre Design (BTGJP00004919) Rate - TBC Location - UK + Flexible International Travel (Riyadh, KSA) Duration - until 30/11/25

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What I'll be doing - your accountabilities Skills required for the job

• Defining and Developing a Data Centre and Operational environment strategy and roadmap.
• Identifying the scalability and functional requirements for immediate and long-term requirements and migration of existing Data Centre and Operational Centre environments and capabilities.
• Defining the Operational Business Continuity and Resilience Requirements
• Evaluating site Physical and Security Considerations for a national level cyber capability and defining the physical, virtual, environmental, internal, and external networking and connectivity requirements.
• Creating RFPs and an Implementation Roadmap. for Data Centres and Operation environments, locations, and rooms
• Ensure industry and best practices are adopted and followed for the Data Centre and operational environment architecture.
• Elaborating strategic and business requirements into functional, non-functional requirements across people, processes, and technology.
• Providing input into the operational cost model for the delivery of the services.
• Define the Data Centre build and transition road maps for implementing the operational and technical capabilities.
• Performing a gap between the proposed roadmap and current capabilities - As-Is -? To Be Gap Analysis
• Identify opportunities for reuse, simplification and productisation within the technology architecture stack.
• At least 10 years of experience working in Data Centre architectural design and specification, including at least 2 years working on the design of solutions.
• Expert-level skills in Data Centre architecture and design
• A mature understanding of how to turn service and operating models and processes into technical capabilities and requirements.
• Previous experience in leading the development and design of Data Centres and supporting infrastructure.
• A mature knowledge and Data Centre Power and cooling, Structured cabling and networking, Space and volumetrics, physical security, and Fallback and recovery requirements
• A mature understanding of physical, private, and cloud-based Data Centre architectures and technology including virtualisation, micro services, and containerisation
• Previous experience in developing and producing large outcome-based RFP's.
• A mature understanding and experience in writing Use Cases and Requirements Elicitation, Definition and Management
• A good understanding of Automated Process Asset and Technology Asset Management
• Ability to work with solution architects, designers, and other stakeholders to illicit requirements
• To be strategic thinker and have ideas about how to turn physical and environmental requirements into RFP's and design packages.
• A methodical and logical approach to handling complex problems in a large organisation.
• Ability to communicate with stakeholders in business service and process jargon and translate effectively between the two.
• Ability to perform and manage risk assessments and capability gap analysis.

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