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Principal Solution Architect (Cloud Infrastructure)- Up to 86,000 - Cardiff Based - Hybrid (Between 1 -3 days in office a week variable)
The Opportunity
Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) was established in April 2021 and provides word leading digital services, empowering people to live healthier lives and is transforming health and care for everyone in Wales. DHCW is a multi-award-winning organisation, and was voted the UK's Best Place to Work in IT.
If you want to get involved in some of the biggest health tech projects in the UK, be part of new digital solutions that will impact health and care for three million Welsh people and use your tech and analytical skills to help make life better for everyone in Wales, we want to hear from you!
DHCW offers extensive training opportunities, enabling everyone to develop their career at their own pace. They are committed to recognising and celebrating staff as the most valuable part of the organisation and are committed to building and developing teams that are diverse and inclusive. So no matter your age, gender, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, or ethnicity - the Digital Health and Care Wales will treat you with respect.
Yolk Recruitment is working in partnership with DHCW to find them the best tech talent in the UK! We are currently working with them to recruit an Principal Solution architect who has demonstrable experience designing solutions around Networking, authentication and DNS. With strong experience of Azure, and knowledge of GCP, the ideal candidate will be able to work effectively with stakeholders across the business, reaching out independently to get the best perspectives on each solution.
The Role - What the Principal Solution Architect will be doing
You will be using your considerable Service Architecture experience , and expansive knowledge of cloud infrastructure to support DHCW in their cloud infrastructure as they migrate to the cloud, with a focus on firewalls, load balancers and financial optimisation of the cloud.
- Take ownership of the design of the infrastructure within a multi-cloud infrastructure, ensuring it meets reliability, performance and security requirements
- Lead the technical engagement within the cloud migration project; providing technical leadership to operations, infrastructure and Fin Ops teams to optimise performance and cost.
- Oversee the design and development of complex architectural solutions, ensuring technical integrity, consistency, scalability, performance and adherence to standards.
- Develop and maintain architectural cloud design roadmaps, optimise both cost value and performance efficiency
- Effectively communicate cloud architecture principles and standards across the organisation.
Requirements - The ideal Principal Solution Architect will have the following
You will have strong experience designing solutions across all areas of cloud infrastructure, ideally with migration of firewalls as well.
- Extensive experience designing solutions in large complex organisation, with clear multi-cloud experience focussing on Azure
- Strong understanding of the financial implications of infrastructure within cloud services, and how to design in a financially optimised way
- Knowledge of DevSecOps practices, and cloud security regulations
- Experience outlining and communicating technical roadmaps and designs to a wide technical and non technical audience, with excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
Reward
Aside from exposure to some of the biggest health tech projects in the UK and working for the UK's best place to work in IT, the successful applicant for this Principal Solution Architect role will be rewarded with the following:
- Salary of 75,000 - 86,000 (Applicants will be awarded bottom of the band unless they can prove prior earnings that match the higher salaries)
- 28 days annual leave + public holidays
- Great work life balance with flexible working and hybrid working (min 1 day a week onsite)
- Professional development & career opportunities
- NHS pension (c 20% employer)
- Employee Assistance Programme and confidential counselling service
- Cycle to work scheme.
Yolk Recruitment is the exclusive recruitment partner to DHCW and therefore all applications will be managed by the team at Yolk following DHCW's own fair and transparent recruitment process.
