GCP Storage Architect

Responsibilities

• • Develop a multi-year product roadmap strategy across the Storage product suite to meet

• customer use cases across all regions

• • Identify technical solutions that would resolve the gaps of recovery requirements to current

• capabilities in the event of a successful cyber attack that results in major data corruption.

• • Re-architecting of the backup and storage technical processes or applications

• architectures

• • Evangelizing the strategy and bringing about cultural change

• • Manage the risk review of the estate

• • Align resources to service model for SAN, NAS and Backup under one plan to ensure we

• deliver holistically a better product

• • Accountable for strategic storage service roadmap (up to 18 months)

• • CIO Engagement (functional requirements)

• • Information Security Risk for the Product

• • Create and maintain Run Book including procedures for starting, stopping, monitoring

• • Ensures Key Processes are defined in accordance to DB standards/policy

• Key Responsibilities

• • Support and evolve the implementation of a vendor provided Spectrum Protect based Backup

• Solution on behalf of the Bank Group

• • Providing a leadership role within Bank on the strategy and build out, deployment and migration

• to an On-Prem TSM/Spectrum Protect backup solution.

• • Providing guidance, assisting development and advising teams designing on-prem backup

• solutions & cloud based backup solutions

• • Documenting and defining TSM based backup solutions

• • Defining best architectural practices, policies and standards for teams looking to adopt cloud

• storage and backup solutions

• • Working with infrastructure partners and specialists to ensure positive delivery outcomes

• • Defining, implementing and evolving a central architecture governance model

• • Reviewing conceptual designs and architectural blueprints for quality and assurance and consistency •

• Education & Experience required

• The candidate will have significant experience in the following:

• Infrastructure:

• • Deep understanding of infrastructure technology across a broad range of infrastructure

• products and their supporting data centers, specifically those corresponding to storage

• and backup services

• • Extensive knowledge of storage infrastructure, specifically within cloud based services

• • Strong architectural understanding through all architectural disciplines (business, data,

• application, technical and security)

• • Several years of experience as Solution Design Architect.

• • Successful business development assignments involved in shaping strategies and then

• delivering tailored products that generate significant value to the infrastructure client.

• Technical Competencies:

• · Business Continuity

• · Client services

• · Operational Management

• · Process Development & Management

• · Project Management & Project Governance

• · Quality Management

• DB Leadership Capabilities:

• · Business Judgement

• · Inspirational Leadership

• · Building Talent

• · Influence

• · Direction

• · Execution

• · Competitive Edge

• · Collaboration

• Capabilities required

You will have

• · Ability to quickly build relationships across multiple teams

• · Ability to share information, transfer knowledge & expertise to team members

• · Good visualization skills

• · High analytical capabilities

• · Ability to grasp new concepts

• · A demonstrated ability to influence team and key stakeholders

• · Ability to work in ambiguity and iterating to a solution – can estimate and solve basic

• business problems without explicit direction

• · Creativity, flexibility, and a wiliness to continuously change, evolve, and improve software

• development processes

• · Excellent communication, collaboration, leadership and conflict resolution skills.

You will be

• · A good verbal and written communicator (English).

· A Self-Starter · Delivery focused and able to respond to requests with tight deadlines · Work well in a team · Able to take on tasks without a high degree of supervision · Structured, methodical thinker, with strong attention to detail. · Able to take the initiative and display problem solving capability. · Able to work well under pressure and always with a professional demeanour. · Confident and able to convincingly structure, summarise, present and challenge recommendations. · Appropriately assertive with excellent relationship building and stakeholder management skills. · Self-motivated · Used to working to tight deadlines and identifying problems at an early stage · Flexibility and willingness to work autonomously · High degree of accuracy and attention to detail Job type: Contract Division: eTeam Workforce Limited Reference: 22-05663