Senior Manager, AWS Principal Architect, NSE Cloud, Central Business Services
Deloitte
Gatwick, West SussexMilton Keynes
Permanent
Full-time
1 month ago
Connect to your IndustryCentral Business Services was created in December 2020 as Deloitte UK's internal, enterprise-wide shared services organisation. The vision for Central Business Services is to drive customer-centric and efficient delivery of business services to our firm, enabled by end-to-end ownership of key processes and the application of consistent technology.Central Business Services will be a world class, central function that better supports the needs of our firm, people and clients by focusing on exceptional customer experience, service quality and efficiency. In doing so, it will also allow our other Enabling Functions to focus on providing excellent business advisory support across the firm.Connect to your career at DeloitteDeloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.Connect to your opportunityThis AWS Principal Architect roles sits in the UK CBS organisation and will be part of the NSE Cloud leadership team working closely with ITS leaders across North and South Europe driving the delivery, adoption and strategy for cloud across the region.Reporting to the Head of NSE Cloud Architecture, the AWS Principal Architect will be responsible for driving forward the AWS Cloud platform and providing solutions architecture advice to stakeholders. This role is more than acting as a technical point of contact, the right candidate will be able to translate industry and internal standards into strategy for the engineering team, will guide more junior architects, and evangelise for the platform to meet the use cases for cloud across North and South EuropeTechnical· Act as a design authority and SME for the AWS cloud· Be the technical point of contact and lead, assisting and advising where necessary other team members and those from other business areas as required.· With the relevant platform engineering team, continually enrich the Deloitte Cloud AWS Platform, enabling best practices in Security, Automation and Reliability.· Continue to develop your career by maintaining up-to-date technology knowledge and fine tuning communication and influencing skills.Relationship Management· Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the AWS architects and engineering teams, fostering a culture of technical excellence and innovation.· Liaise with various other teams and colleagues on regional and global programmes, and align on standards and policies.· Develop and maintain relationships with strategic partners and suppliers, by having regular conversations, attending conferences, and by organising and/or attending supplier workshops.· Work with CISO function to ensure solution designs meet both Deloitte's Global and regional policies and standards. Contribute to evolve policies and standards.Strategic· In cooperation with other cloud teams, align services and maintain roadmap for the platform.· Stay abreast with emerging technologies and trends across all Enterprise Architecture domains with a focus on cloud specifically.· Work directly with various businesses across multiple countries (including business relationship managers) to gain a deep understanding on business requirements and future direction.· Design services to meet future business needs.· Drive and support collaborative solution option analysis and recommend high level solutions and approach.Connect to your skills and professional experience· Comprehensive knowledge and demonstrable experience of hosting patterns in on-premises data centres and on public clouds, specifically AWS, including virtual servers, virtual storage, containers, serverless computing, resilience and recovery patterns, RPO & RTO, and including inter-system communications constructs including database access, third-party gateways, synchronous and asynchronous messaging, API's, Web Services, transit networks, directory services (AD) integration, and more.· Recent Cloud Architecture certification in AWS.· Knowledge and demonstrable experience of cloud connectivity options, load balancers, network zoning and segregation, proxies, DNS, DHCP, IPAM, QOS and more.· Good working knowledge of network security principles and constructs including firewalls, DLP, Multi-Factor Authentication and PAM.· Demonstrable experience in bringing the above knowledge and experience to bear in creating high and low level designs and then communicating the reasons behind key and potentially contentious design constructs.· Excellent written, verbal and presentation communications skills; you will often find in situations where you have to describe problem statements, solution options, your analysis and recommendations to a mix of technical, non-technical and C-level stakeholders, and use strong influencing skills to gain consensus and an agreed way forward.· Able to document and diagram solutions and technical ideas.· Good supplier relationship management and communications skills and ability to establish and maintain effective key stakeholder relationshipsConnect to your service line - Enabling FunctionsCollaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. Bringing your individual skills and experience, and sharing your specialist knowledge, is how you'll make a far-reaching impact. Come join us.Personal independenceRegulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints. This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.Connect with your colleagues"The support that Deloitte offers is great, and the work is always interesting and motivating.”-Jim, Enabling Functions"Deloitte's a large, complex and fast-paced organisation but it's open to new ideas. Everyone is encouraged to show initiative and challenge the norm.”-Lisa, Enabling FunctionsOur hybrid working policyYou'll be based anywhere in the UK (except for London) with hybrid working. Our hybrid model enables our people to collaborate, connect and innovate in both a virtual and physical capacity. As well as remote working, you'll attend your local office, virtual collaboration spaces and client sites, depending on the requirements of the role.Our commitment to youMaking an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.Connect to your next stepA career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you'll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You'll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you'll never stop growing, whatever your level.Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers
