Infrastructure Architect Systems Engineer III

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• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
• Private medical insurance
• Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
• Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
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About the role

Role Summary

The Infrastructure Architect Systems Engineer III is responsible for contributing and maintaining the roadmaps for Infrastructure products. They collaborate extensively with application, engineering teams, stakeholders, customers, and vendors to evaluate new products and techniques; resulting in architecting and designing new and existing Infrastructure products for the wider Tesco Technology teams to consume.

You will be responsible for

• Contribute and maintain architecture roadmaps, including technology lifecycle management, for Infrastructure.
• Architect and design new infrastructure solutions to meet business requirements, while introducing automation and ensuring security is by design.
• Collaborate with other teams across all of Tesco Technology to understand their requirements and ensure infrastructure products are aligned.
• Contribute and develop Infrastructure as a Product

You will need

Infrastructure Architect Systems Engineer III Skills

Design & Operations

• Investigate and identify trends and emerging Infrastructure technologies and techniques that would deliver a significant improvement to Tesco’s business, application, or Infrastructure teams.
• Contribute and maintain the roadmap and product lifecycle for Infrastucture, advising on new technology products. To ensure capacity and scalability, as demand and usage evolve within Tesco.
• Contribute to the Architecture forum, ensuring that business projects are delivered using good infrastructure practices.
• Collaborates with development and infrastructure teams in creating appropriate infrastructure solutions. Understands modern application development techniques and their implications.
• Lead group design discussions and be able to present with authority to a variety of audience.
• Using your understanding of cost, service requirements, technology, and people to make recommendations on existing solutions and where they could be improved or should be decommissioned.
• Accountable for ensuring Security and Automation is by design
• Working with the Principal System Engineers and Enterprise Architects ensuring standards and guidance for design and architecture are maintained across Technology and effectively communicated.
• Have a broad technical understanding of infrastructure products, how they fit together and align to the wider technology landscape.
• Work with suppliers to ensure that their architectural roadmaps align to supporting Tesco systems.
• Work with infrastructure teams to ensure that they produce and maintain high quality HLD/LLD and maintain standard documentation. 
• Take ownership of, keep up-to-date and embrace the latest industry technologies and associated supplier solutions. 

Leadership & Potential

Complementary Skills

• Collaborate across multifunctional departments to drive forward the overall enterprise design
• Use strategic thinking to plan for the future.  Develop ideas that will cope with changing environments and challenges that lie ahead.
• Well organised self-starter who takes personal ownership and accountability at required levels of the work stream and project life cycles; willing to go the extra mile at every opportunity 
• Keep your technical skills up to date and keep track of new technologies, understanding how they might benefit the Technology team and wider Tesco. 
• Using a bigger picture perspective to approach issues, influence and make decisions.

• Leverage feedback to drive continuous improvement.
• Collaborate across multifunctional departments and communicate effectively with stakeholder at all levels.
• Lead by example in creating a positive and supportive culture in the team.
• Celebrate success
• Anticipate and overcomes obstacles with a pragmatic approach to achieve goals and commitments. While exhibiting high responsiveness by reacting quickly and positively to significant and major events
• Help to understand and develop architecture and development cycle skills and capabilities in the team
• Help to mentor and educate System Engineers and Software Development Engineers across Technology. 
• Ability to demonstrate strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills to a variety of audiences.
• Flexibility, ability to plan and organise, responsiveness, creativity, self-starter 
• Proficient in spoken and written English.

Technology Understanding

• SME (Subject Matter Expert) in at least one area of infrastructure; This encompasses multiple domains; private and public cloud, platforms, network security and connectivity, end-user computing, CI/CD and monitoring toolkit.
• Experience designing and deploying solutions for large, complex global organisations 
• Analytical and structured approach to architecture, design, and process improvements
• Understands current application development techniques and their implications.
• Facilitate Tesco Technology’s Infrastructure transformation to modern platforms that can be consumed through APIs or portals. These solutions should allow Infrastructure to be consumed in a controlled, auditable, and repeatable manner, with automatic recovery and full end to end service monitoring and operationalisation.
• Understand, contribute, and develop Infrastructure as a Product

Finance & Commercials

• Ability to support business cases by evaluating suitable products for their technology and commercial impact on Tesco and assist the Product and Architecture team in making the right decision.
• Contribute to commercial discussions in an SME capacity.

About us

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

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We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you.  We work in a more blended pattern -combining office and remote working.  Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.