Storage architect

Storage SME 12 Month Contract UK based remote working Purview are currently recruiting for a Storage SME for our Tier 1 banking client on an initial 12 month contract. You will be a technical lead aligned to our Storage & Data Protection Services infrastructure team. You will be accountable to work with the portfolio and platform architects, technical leads and engineers, to define detailed solution designs (incl. story decomposition) for stories in backlog. Responsibilities: - • Accountable for ensuring the products & services are supported by the right architectures and solutions meet the customer needs. • Accountable for ensuring the design of the product solutions are cost effective and maintained through the agile development lifecycle, managing the flow of the backlog of design activities. • Working with ops engineers to ensure operational issues (performance, operator intervention, alerting, design defect related issues, etc) are resolved and that any design related issues are addressed in a timely manner. • Convert requirements into actionable product/service requirements that feed technology solutions development & influence service direction. • Responsible for ensuring solutions are aligned with the platform architecture and roadmap, group standards and policies and the overall enterprise architecture for their function. Skills required: • Proven track record within the disciplines of solutions design and architecture. • A deep technical understanding of Block, File, Object and Data Protection technologies • Understanding of the following Block technologies desirable, Dell, Pure, HPE • Understanding of the following File technologies desirable, Netapp FAS/AFF, VAST • Understanding of the following Object technologies desirable, Dell, Netapp, VAST • Understanding of the following Data Protection technologies desirable, Veritas, CommVault. • Knowledge and/or experience developing observability solutions. • Knowledge and/or experience with OpenTelemetry, Kafka and/or other streaming technologies. • Knowledge and/or experience with observability tooling e.g. Splunk & Grafana is beneficial. • Work with Agile methodology, representing the pod and area lead in standups and problem-solving meetings. • Excellent written and spoken communication skills