Job Description

Nottingham Trent House (95002), United Kingdom, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

Principal Infrastructure Architect

This is a senior technology role focused on Cloud architecture with an opportunity to help the organisation complete their data centre exit programme, by defining appropriate technology solutions and building roadmaps to meet our chosen target. The successful applicant will excel in working across multiple infrastructure domains, including, compute, database, observability, storage and workforce technology with experience leading and assuring solution designs meet product intent, being a key enabler for engineering delivery.

What you\xe2\x80\x99ll do:

• Collaborate with some great product managers and architects on the overall product roadmap for key business goals, extending the technology planning horizon in order to deliver them
• Seek perspectives from the consulting technology groups (Engineering, Tech Ops, Networks, Cyber, Shared Tech, Enterprise Architecture) to ensure architectures meet the wider needs
• Develop the choices, decisions and guardrails to assess new solutions against alignment or convergence from targets and roadmaps
• Assess and manage alignment - or divergence - to Target Architectures via Technical Design Reviews and help develop enterprise and UK Line of Business common capabilities
• Be a change agent driving continuous improvement in architecture process methodology and best practices
• Blend vision and perfection with pragmatism and realism to help navigate through trade-offs, typically involving time, cost, quality, scope and risk
• Enable engineering teams to search and discover information about capabilities, tools and source code that can be reused to address their needs.
• Highlight the engineering skills needed to allow us to move towards our target technology architecture
• Foster a culture of knowledge sharing by acting as a thought catalyst by keeping the community up to date on industry, enterprise and business trends. Inject this context into technology decisions
• Make everyone welcome and seek different perspectives, model inclusion

What we\xe2\x80\x99re looking for:

We\'re looking for talented individuals, the experience below is a guide. If you don\'t have all the experience but think this role is for you, we\'d still love to hear from you.

• You have experience in solutions architecture in an environment of an internal/external IT technology estate and in-house and third-party delivery capabilities.
• You are skilled and knowledgeable across architectural areas comprising infrastructure, application and management information domains, including Public Cloud.
• You are comfortable in reaching technical trade-offs between short-term team and long-term business needs.
• You are willing and excited to get into the guts of a completely data-driven, highly regulated industry with a lot of existing complexity.
• You work well with diverse teams, partnering across the organisation to navigate an ambiguous and quickly changing environment.
• AWS certified solution architect or similar

Where and how you\'ll work

This is a permanent position based in our Nottingham office.

We have a flexible hybrid working model - one that creates the opportunity to work in your own way, and also provides great spaces for in-person collaboration. Our core in-the-office days are Tuesday to Thursday. Many of our team have flexible working patterns so we\xe2\x80\x99re open to discuss flexible working arrangements with you.

What\xe2\x80\x99s in it for you:

• Bring us all this - and you\xe2\x80\x99ll be handsomely rewarded with a role contributing to the product roadmap for an organisation committed to transformation
• We\xe2\x80\x99re continuing our journey into the public cloud and have problems of scale, security, availability and performance for you to help solve
• We love continuous learning and that\xe2\x80\x99s why we give you 10% of your time to work on cutting edge innovative projects that shape the way we will work in the future
• We offer high performers strong and diverse career progression, investing heavily in developing great people through our Capital One University training programmes (and appropriate external providers)
• Immediate access to our core benefits including pension scheme, bonus, generous holiday entitlement and private medical insurance \xe2\x80\x93 with flexible benefits available including season-ticket loans, cycle to work scheme and enhanced parental leave
• Open-plan workspaces and facilities designed to inspire and support you. Our Nottingham head-office has a fully-serviced gym, subsidised restaurant, mindfulness and music rooms. In London, you can heighten your mood with a run on our rooftop running track or an espresso at the Workshop Coffee caf\xc3\xa9
• Find out more through our UK careers site (http://www.capitalonecareers.co.uk/) or by exploring the @IAmCapitalOne Twitter tag

What you should know about how we recruit

We pride ourselves on hiring the best people, not the same people. Building diverse and inclusive teams is the right thing to do and the smart thing to do. We want to work with top talent: whoever you are, whatever you look like, wherever you come from. We know it\xe2\x80\x99s about what you do, not just what you say. That\xe2\x80\x99s why we make our recruitment process fair and accessible. And we offer benefits that attract people at all ages and stages.

We also partner with organisations including the Women in Finance and Race At Work Charters, Stonewall and upReach to find people from every walk of life and help them thrive with us. We have a whole host of internal networks and support groups you could be involved in, to name a few:

• REACH \xe2\x80\x93 Race Equality and Culture Heritage group focuses on representation, retention and engagement for associates from minority ethnic groups and allies
• OutFront \xe2\x80\x93 to provide LGBTQ+ support for all associates
• Mind Your Mind \xe2\x80\x93 signposting support and promoting positive mental wellbeing for all
• Women in Tech \xe2\x80\x93 promoting an inclusive environment in tech
• EmpowHER - network of female associates and allies focusing on developing future leaders, particularly for female talent in our industry

Capital One is committed to diversity in the workplace.

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