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As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer for Hybrid Cloud Services, you will be capable of role modelling Infrastructure solutions which adhere to best practice, with a focus on operational stability, resilience, and availability. This position will collaborate with Architects, Site Reliability Engineers, Delivery Managers, and Product Managers, who all support the implementation and operation of Cloud hosted products and services. We ensure that we’re aligned to the Department's Technical Reference Architecture (TRA) and Security and Compliance Standards in all stages of development and delivery. This is an exciting time to be part of what is effectively an enterprise-scale tech company in the heart of government. Role & Responsibilities Support the design and implementation of Public Cloud infrastructure services/solutions to meet strategic plans and roadmaps. Responsible for operational management of Public Cloud hosted technologies, products, and services, with a focus on security, availability, resilience, and performance. Provide specialist service or solution technical support and assistance to junior staff and users and undertake line management responsibilities. Development and implementation of service improvement plans to address identified issues for Public Cloud hosted technologies, products, and services. Responsibility for management and resolution of Incidents for Public Cloud hosted technologies, products, and services.

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer for Hybrid Cloud Services, you will be capable of role modelling Infrastructure solutions which adhere to best practice, with a focus on operational stability, resilience, and availability. This position will collaborate with Architects, Site Reliability Engineers, Delivery Managers, and Product Managers, who all support the implementation and operation of Cloud hosted products and services. We ensure that we’re aligned to the Department's Technical Reference Architecture (TRA) and Security and Compliance Standards in all stages of development and delivery. This is an exciting time to be part of what is effectively an enterprise-scale tech company in the heart of government. Role & Responsibilities Support the design and implementation of Public Cloud infrastructure services/solutions to meet strategic plans and roadmaps. Responsible for operational management of Public Cloud hosted technologies, products, and services, with a focus on security, availability, resilience, and performance. Provide specialist service or solution technical support and assistance to junior staff and users and undertake line management responsibilities. Development and implementation of service improvement plans to address identified issues for Public Cloud hosted technologies, products, and services. Responsibility for management and resolution of Incidents for Public Cloud hosted technologies, products, and services.

Infrastructure Solutions Architect The primary role of the IT Infrastructure Solutions Architect, is to ensure all IT Infrastructure applications architecture and design, systems and software Integration, functional requirements gathering, whether from inception or enhancements, are delivered on-time, aligned to industry standards, redundant and simplified by design, as well as being delivered cost effectively, whilst ensuring project delivery meets architectural objectives. Responsible for providing hands-on design and technical leadership to the global IT and business related teams, with a solid technology background, experience in capability and data models, domain driven design for application strategy, across all phases of the software development lifecycle. Additional responsibilities include ensuring IT Infrastructure and application design are secure, reliable, and regularly reviewed. This role will also develop and enhance relationship management with key service partners, independent contractors, vendors, and suppliers. Key Responsibilities/Tasks: Lead the architecture design, and delivery towards consolidation of O365 amongst operating companies globally. Lead the architecture and design towards implementation of a robust, cost-effective disaster recovery solution for all key business applications globally. Ownership of the workflow design between core system applications and functions. Ownership of end architecture target designs with viable interim states. Ownership of data integration complexity, with an aim of simplification. Ownership of architectural and operational design and roadmap. Ensure solutions are secure by design, with minimum customisation (as needed). Support and train technical / business leads across functions, using agile decision making. Responsible for ensuring the correct technical solutions and products are chosen. Responsible for documenting the technology landscape, interfaces, and data flows. Responsible for ensuring new and modified services, occur in a planned, controlled, and timely manner, with emphasis on design and implementation concepts. Provide monthly reporting dashboard, on network security, IoT consumption, endpoint and server security, application security, including SLA and key KPI counters to the director of IT and associated stakeholders. Develop and maintain a comprehensive understanding of IT transformation related projects and programs, to ensure application of appropriate governance processes are aligned. Maintain and up to date solution architecture diagrams / workflows and documentation for all key IT programmes, projects and ongoing BAU activities. Provide timely reports to management and key stakeholders on projects progress, and risks to delivery including non-compliance issues. Collaborate with the director of IT, ensuring IT security policies & practices are adhered to within all regions and groups. Skills/Competencies Required: Microsoft / AWS architecture (recent experience) Agile methodology / delivery Experience with interacting with business and technology leaders. Experience designing physical data models (relational SQL desirable) Experience rolling our mid-large platforms from inception to production. SQL, Java, Oracle, Kubernetes exposure. Hardware and software virtualisation techniques Excellent written and verbal communication skills Prior experience in a complex IT infrastructure environment Excellent analytical abilities and innovative problem-solving skills. Excellent interpersonal skills and strong abilities to develop and enhance relationships with clients and peers. The Client is based in Central London. This is a hybrid role – 3 days per week in the office. The salary for this position circa £55K - £65K. Please do send your CV to us in Word format along with your salary and notice period.

Principal Data Engineers lead multi-functional delivery teams to deliver robust data services for their department, other government departments and private sector partners. Through technical direction and leadership, you will create and nurture an environment that emphasises motivation, empowerment, teamwork, continuous improvement and a passion for providing service. You will work with other members of the data community to set the enterprise data strategy and standards and agree implementation and governance. Main Responsibilities Your main day to day responsibilities will be: Providing technical direction and leadership within the Data Platform team to maximise its effectiveness and inspire best practice for data products and services. Developing capabilities in tools and techniques to analyse large/big data-sets and from multiple/complex sources that will enable broader Data Science models and algorithms to uncover insights, trends, and patterns in the data. Leading in defining our data strategy and roadmap influenced by future technology changes and implemented through best practice and governance. Managing stakeholders at all levels, including facilitating discussions around complex topics and managing performance expectations. Initiating and facilitating partnership with other technical and non-technical departments and outside of government to champion data engineering and help them understand how data solutions can benefit them while ensuring easy and effective access to data resources. Building the data engineering capability through coaching and mentoring other Data Engineers. Working Pattern Due to the business requirements of this role, it is only available on a full-time basis. However, are available.

We’re looking for a Corporate Technical Support Engineer with a real drive and passion for excellent user experience. The role resides within our Corporate Technical Support team who are responsible for resolving service calls relating to the use of IT devices and their applications, including mobile phones, laptops, tablets, and desktop computers. You will be interacting with users across numerous communication channels, both virtual and face-to-face i.e. Microsoft Teams/Outlook, ServiceNow or our Tech bars. Some elements of this work can be physically demanding and involve lifting and installing equipment such as Monitors/personal computers and supporting meeting room equipment. As a member of the Corporate Technical support team, you will be supporting and maintaining new and existing services, products, and platforms. The ideal candidate would have an interest in end user computing and mobile device management. Our team culture is based around agile working and providing excellent service to both our internal and external customers. Responsibilities As a Corporate Technical Support Infrastructure Engineer your responsibilities will include but are not limited to, for the services, products and platforms supported: Responding to incidents, requests and changes. Monitoring the configuration, availability, security, capacity and performance. Engaging in continuous improvement activities. Tracking the life cycle of assets from acquisition through to disposal applying quality updates to asset records. Maximising the use of tools and technologies to deliver operational excellence. Engaging in wider communities of practice, identifying good practices we can adopt and sharing our experiences.

Role Title: Infrastructure Storage Analyst Location: 1 day per month at Manchester office / may ask candidate to visit office at Birmingham in future for only 1 day per month. Duration: 6 months contract duration Rate £316.83 INSIDE IR35 MUST BE THROUGH UMBRELLA Role Description: MUST HAVE: -VMware + enterprise skills like vRealize, SRM, operations manager -CISCO UCS infrastructure (compute, networking and storage combined into a single unit) -Good knowledge of storage technologies vSAN and VxRail -Experience with Linux command line technologies, as IBM Storage operates on a Unix interface. -Exposure to and application of cluster management within Spectrum Scale. -Familiarity with Spectrum Scale protocols, including GPFS, NFS, and SMB in an active-active topology. The Infrastructure Analyst - Storage will join an already established Platform team within CBS, providing a level of technical knowledge to undertake the troubleshooting and resolution to production incidents or problems independently escalating to Senior Engineers if required. Completes tasks to agreed levels of quality, within stated timescales with minimal supervision. Looks for improvement opportunities within the team and its processes/procedures. An effective team member who provides support and guidance to peers and other team members. Contributes to team efficiency through the creation of accurate technical documentation where required * Responsible for independently troubleshooting and resolving production service incidents * Undertake technical tasks such as patching, allocating storage, maintaining scripts and configuring backups Effectively prioritise tasks to ensure high priority activities are completed first Specific Skills: Demonstrable level of knowledge in their chosen technical discipline. Essential experience of working in a complex, pressurised production environment. Financial services experience would be desirable but not essential. Essential skills * Exposure to and application of IBM Flash Systems - knowledge and experience of replication using global mirror, metro mirror and change volumes * Exposure to and application of cluster management within Spectrum Scale, Oracle and ESXi environments * Exposure to and application Spectrum Scale - protocols to include GPFS, NFS, and SMB in active-active topology * Explore to or awareness of GKLM (SKLM) * Awareness of how actions can affect availability * Provision and redaction of storage across the IBM storage estate - all technologies * Experience of working with Linux command line technologies * Experience of ticket management using ServiceNow * An appreciation of Cloud technologies (AWS) and associated features * Knowledge of AWS server administration and features * Some experience of working within an Agile delivery environment * An understanding of VMware products including vSphere, vRealize & related technologies * An understanding of Cisco UCS & HPE infrastructure An understanding of virtualisation architectures and some experience supporting Please send latest CV LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds. Award Winning LA International, winner of the Recruiter Awards for Excellence, Best IT Recruitment Company, Best Public Sector Recruitment Company and overall Gold Award winner, has now secured the most prestigious business award that any business can receive, The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade, for the second consecutive period.

Ahead Digital, an agency specialising in digital strategy based in Brussels and Paris, is looking for an AI Project Manager for a position to be filled as soon as possible! As part of an assignment carried out at one of our clients in Brussels, you will strengthen the Data team, to identify business opportunities where AI can bring value to our client’ sector, in collaboration with domain experts. This freelance assignment will start at the end of March and continue until the end of 2026, and will take place in central brussel. We are looking for a AI Project Manager to lead high-impact, innovative projects. Mission On a daily basis you : Identify business opportunities where AI can bring value to our client sector, in collaboration with domain experts; Monitor technological developments in AI and translate them into concrete solutions; Challenge proposed solutions, test products, and actively contribute to their improvement; Develop action plans, manage timelines, identify risks, and implement mitigation strategies; Detect project blockers and risks, resolve them directly or escalate appropriately; Ensure project follow-up and communicate progress clearly and appropriately to different audiences — C-level profiles, architects, technical experts (network, infrastructure, development, data), and business partners; Collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders: legal experts, analysts, IT specialists, developers, data scientists, BI analysts, and more.

Senior Sales Lead with Energy and Energy Infrastructure ESG Our Client is looking to recruit a Senior Sales Lead ideally with experience of working within the Energy sector to include ESG. You will have at least 7 to 10 years experience in Sales. We are seeking a dynamic and proactive professional to drive global growth in the sector, capturing major logo new clients, build and significantly expand existing key accounts, and use their network to leverage relationships with both new and existing clients and partners. With a focus on Energy and Energy Infrastructure, your primary objective is to leverage your knowledge in environmental impact assessments and “license to operate” clients, to drive growth and expand the adoption of our nature and biodiversity solutions. This is an outbound role that will require travel to industry events and conferences. While specific experience in biodiversity is not essential, success in this role will be supported by a solid understanding of environmental impact assessments, corporate sustainability, ESG practices, and the unique challenges and opportunities within this key sector. Your ability to deliver measurable client value and achieve positive business outcomes is essential. Key Outcomes Grow Revenue, capturing major logo new clients, building and significantly expanding existing key accounts. Increase adoption of our digital solutions with enterprise clients. Optimise overall Gross Margin on eDNA business while reflecting client needs and scale of opportunities Improve Customer Retention on key cohorts and improve the quality of earnings with larger orders and multi-year projects Upgrade and enhance the Go to Market strategy for this sector Deliver monthly Forecast Reports that are reasonably accurate Key Responsibilities Revenue Growth: Maximize Revenue and Growth: Drive significant increases in account revenue and expand our client base. Identify and Capture Opportunities: Leverage your knowledge of sustainability within the sector to proactively discover and capitalize on new business opportunities within existing accounts, transforming them into long-term revenue streams. Deliver Tangible Value: Ensure clients experience significant ROI from our biodiversity solutions, empowering them to lead in sustainable practices. Customer Relationship Management: Cultivate Strong Client Relationships: Establish and maintain deep, trust-based relationships with key clients, promoting the adoption of innovative biodiversity technologies. Drive Client Success: Regularly engage with clients to ensure their sustainability objectives are met, fostering long-term retention and account growth. Sentiment and Value Enhancement: Enhance Client Satisfaction: Continuously monitor and improve client satisfaction and loyalty, providing insights to inform product development and operational enhancements. Upsell and Cross-Sell: Use your understanding of sector needs to identify and execute opportunities to expand the value of each account through upselling and cross-selling relevant services and solutions. Account Coordination: Ensure Seamless Project Delivery: Oversee the successful delivery of all projects with your key accounts, ensuring timely completion, budget adherence, and client satisfaction. Maximize Account Potential: Understand client structures and decision-making processes to unlock additional business opportunities, such as different business units or additional regions. Sector Expertise: Expand Market Presence: Utilize your expertise in the sector to broaden our market presence and drive conversations around biodiversity solutions. Utilize Industry Knowledge: Apply your deep understanding of the regulatory landscape (e.g., CSRD/ISSB/ IPIECA Sustainability Framework/ EDP Renewables Framework) to enhance client outcomes and position our biodiversity solutions as essential to their operations. Key Qualifications: Experience: Senior experience in sales management, working in impact assessments, corporate sustainability or ESG within the sectors, with a proven track record of delivering business results. Sales Excellence: Demonstrated success in driving revenue growth and expanding client bases at enterprise scale. Experience in selling environmental or business data services to sector leading brands, supply chain managers, and c-suite would be exceptionally valuable. Strategic Insight: Strong understanding of the challenges and opportunities within the sectors, including the impact of sustainability practices. Industry Engagement: Maintain active involvement with key industry stakeholders and bodies, enhancing our market presence and credibility within the sectors. Attend relevant events, conferences, and webinars. Presentation Skills: Confidently present our tools and products to mixed audiences both online and in person, effectively communicating the value of our solutions. This is an exciting new position with a fast growing company in the Energy ESG sector. The role will be based in Central London and is hybrid with 3 days a week in the office. The salary for this position will be in the range £60K - £80K plus OTE commission up to 50% of the base salary. 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Technical Project Manager – Bank – City of London As the Technical Project Manager, you play an integral role in a high performing team to deliver technical projects on time, to budget and that achieve both the project objectives and increase internal customer satisfaction. This is a hybrid role where you apply your technical expertise in either software development or IT infrastructure projects. At times, you might need to chip in on business requirement scoping and technical delivery to get the project across the line. You leverage your project management expertise and adept communication skills to lead the end-to-end project lifecycle and by doing so, you directly shape the success of IT projects, and therefore our business. Key Responsibilities: Maintaining high performance levels for service-related processes, and implementing improvement activities wherever necessary Taking ownership of critical risks and issues, coordinating resolution with all appropriate constituents, and establishing effective communication between stakeholders Developing a deep understanding of projects to gain insights into the scope of service delivery Manage metrics reporting and analysis of business demand against capacity constraints Manage the development and delivery of IT products utilizing Scrum and Kanban methodologies Focus on the constant improvement of quality, speed and ensuring the team learns and gets better each sprint. Collaborate with Architecture, Engineering, and security teams to comply with established policies and procedures and verifies that deliverables meet requirements Provide communication and escalation to IT and business area management on critical issues Foster and maintain good working relationships with business area representatives to remain in sync on direction and future delivery requests Key Requirements: Comfortable capturing and challenging briefs to ensure we are delivering the most worthwhile solutions Experience of leading, energising and mentoring project members Experience in IT project delivery including managing all project phases from analysis, design, build, testing, implementation and hand over to BAU teams. Ability to work to tight deadlines and work calmly under pressure A high level of organisation and demonstrated skills to manage a team’s capacity Comfortable multitasking and prioritising several tasks at once Hard-working with an outgoing and positive nature Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal Technical skillsets within IT Infrastructure and Development will be mandatory Technologies: Microsoft based environment including – MS SQL, Exchange, Active Directory, IIS, Symantec, Citrix Network – Cisco, Palo Alto, ForcePoint, Symantec Email Security Programming Language – T-SQL, VB.net, C#, PowerShell, ASP The Client is a bank based in the City of London. The salary for this position will be circa £60K - £70K. This is a 12 month FTC position. Do send your CV to us in Word format along with your salary and availability.

Technical Project Manager – Bank – Central of London As the Technical Project Manager, you play an integral role in a high performing team to deliver technical projects on time, to budget and that achieve both the project objectives and increase internal customer satisfaction. This is a hybrid role where you apply your technical expertise in either software development or IT infrastructure projects. At times, you might need to chip in on business requirement scoping and technical delivery to get the project across the line. You leverage your project management expertise and adept communication skills to lead the end-to-end project lifecycle and by doing so, you directly shape the success of IT projects, and therefore our business. Key Responsibilities: Maintaining high performance levels for service-related processes, and implementing improvement activities wherever necessary Taking ownership of critical risks and issues, coordinating resolution with all appropriate constituents, and establishing effective communication between stakeholders Developing a deep understanding of projects to gain insights into the scope of service delivery Manage metrics reporting and analysis of business demand against capacity constraints Manage the development and delivery of IT products utilizing Scrum and Kanban methodologies Focus on the constant improvement of quality, speed and ensuring the team learns and gets better each sprint. Collaborate with Architecture, Engineering, and security teams to comply with established policies and procedures and verifies that deliverables meet requirements Provide communication and escalation to IT and business area management on critical issues Foster and maintain good working relationships with business area representatives to remain in sync on direction and future delivery requests Key Requirements: Comfortable capturing and challenging briefs to ensure we are delivering the most worthwhile solutions Experience of leading, energising and mentoring project members Experience in IT project delivery including managing all project phases from analysis, design, build, testing, implementation and hand over to BAU teams. Ability to work to tight deadlines and work calmly under pressure A high level of organisation and demonstrated skills to manage a team’s capacity Comfortable multitasking and prioritising several tasks at once Hard-working with an outgoing and positive nature Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal Technical skillsets within IT Infrastructure and Development will be mandatory Technologies: Microsoft based environment including – MS SQL, Exchange, Active Directory, IIS, Symantec, Citrix Network – Cisco, Palo Alto, ForcePoint, Symantec Email Security Programming Language – T-SQL, VB.net, C#, PowerShell, ASP The Client is a bank based in Mayfair London. The salary for this position will be circa £60K - £75K. This is a 12 month FTC position. Do send your CV to us in Word format along with your salary and availability.

Role Title: Infrastructure Designer Location: Manchester Duration: 6 months Rate to inside IR35 £469.88 MUST BE THROUGH UMBRELLA Role Description: * Produce infrastructure design documentation based on a solution architecture to be implemented by a 3rd party supplier. * To coordinate accurate estimates for inclusion in end to end project costs and business cases and to assist with the estimates for the end to end IT costs. * Leadership within projects of technical resources and SMEs. * Input to infrastructure solution frameworks and patterns displaying awareness of external markets and suppliers, so that the best value for money and service is delivered. * Ensure that clear root cause is established for incidents impacting the deliverables of the Infrastructure CoE and that these issues are addressed. * Work with 3rd party supplier build teams, development and test environment leads to ensure that solutions implemented across the Bank project portfolio are compliant to design. * Involvement with 3rd parties to design product integration to existing / new solutions. * Act as a technical escalation point and convene troubleshooting teams to ensure rapid identification and resolution of infrastructure issues. * Provide design inputs to areas of expertise such as Mainframe, Networks, Wintel, Database or Connect:Direct. * Responsibility for producing and assuring design patterns. * Responsibility for producing and assuring Infrastructure Roadmaps. * Provide technical escalation point for production services. * Provide technical escalation point during build phase of new production services. Knowledge, skills and experience required * Extensive experience in VM Ware Platforms and Infrastructure Solutions, Networking Environments & Firewall Knowledge * Extensive expertise in leading infrastructure solution, design and process improvement activities within an IT operational environment which resulted in improved efficiency, performance and financial benefit. * Excellent communication and influencing skills for dealing with internal management and teams, liaison with business partners and customers and external IT service providers. * Excellent technical authoring skills Additional desirable technical skills * Mainframe (CICS, COBOL, Objecstar, CA Datacom, VSAM etc.) * UNIX Environments (AIX, LINUX, Solaris etc.) * Wintel / Storage / Desktop Environments * Data Centre Hosting * Cloud Services and integration * Mobile and BYOD * Middleware and Integration (IBM Message Broker, DataStage etc.) Please send latest CV LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds. Award Winning LA International, winner of the Recruiter Awards for Excellence, Best IT Recruitment Company, Best Public Sector Recruitment Company and overall Gold Award winner, has now secured the most prestigious business award that any business can receive, The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade, for the second consecutive period.

Agile Production Services (APS) is an IT Tribe that offers End-to-End Production Services, supporting the activities of Product Tribes. Our main activities include providing E2E L2 & L3 support for Go-Live, service availability, and 24/7 on-call support, as well as specific support for Detailed Technical Design. Our APS TechEx team acts as a technology reference point for BNP Paribas Fortis towards our group partners BP2I and ITGP, ensuring that technical experiences are shared with all IT OPS Engineers across the 5 APS Teams. Role A (Agile) Project Manager (Infrastructure) Can be the Initiative Owner of an IT Production initiative Supports the (business) Initiative Owner to ensure the delivery of an Initiative and to manage conflicts for prioritization, budget, value for money and scope. Monitors and controls the progress of the delivery of the features related to the initiative Ensures that the initiative delivers the expected results Collects the features status information from the Feature Delivery Owner(s) Stakeholder management Organizes the required ceremonies Identifies and logs impediments at initiative/opus/feature level. Facilitates the impediments resolution at initiative level. Simplifies discussions, decisions, and conflict resolution by creating a safe trust environment where everyone feels comfortable expressing themselves. Communicates with internal and external stakeholders to facilitate communication and information flow. He/she also protects the team from unexpected workloads and aligns with APS Management. Contributes to the Scrum of Scrum, the Quarterly Agile Planning, … Using your experience, you are able to make the bridge between business stakeholders and IT suppliers. You challenge both parties, making sure an optimal solution (cost, quality, budget) is delivered. You will report to the Chapter Lead of IT APS Transversal Roles English : good French : Fluent

Product Owner 6 Month contract initially + Extensions Based: Gaydon or Leamington Spa/Hybrid.(Max 3 days p/w onsite) Rate: £500 - £540 p/d - (via Umbrella company) We have a great opportunity with a world leading organisation where you will be provided with all of the support and development to succeed. A progressive organisation where you can really make a difference. We have a great opportunity for a Product Owner to join the team. Your responsibilities:  Build and maintain the long-term vision and strategy for your Product area to deliver the right value at the right time  Collaborate with the teams to define and maintain viable Roadmaps  Own and maintain a Backlog of purposeful work which meets the technical, user and business needs of the Product area  Evaluate opportunities, determining what gets built and delivered to customers along with the knowledge and evidence that what you're asking a team to build is truly worth building  Cultivate a meaningful community and network in your Product area, including solution architects and stakeholders  Build credibility and trust through experience and personal style, bringing diverse new ways of thinking and perspectives to the team  Use data to plan, measure and make great decisions  Prior experience in Salesforce and/or data migration Essential skills/knowledge/experience:  A passion for using digital product thinking, techniques and technology to solve sometimes complex problems  Successes (and maybe some failures) in one or more of greenfield, brownfield, user-led, data-led, infrastructure-led or software-led products  Hands on experience of the 'fuzzy front' and 'messy middle' phases of the digital product lifecycle  Modern and appropriate Business Analysis techniques and Process design/capture  Experience of Implementing OKRs (Objectives and Key Results )  Comfortable challenging existing thinking in a positive way  Genuine advocate for modern high-quality DevOps, modern software engineering practices and all things Agile  Customer focussed, driven to deliver experiences our users will love and keen to collaborate with different product teams and stakeholders from across the business  Resilient, energetic and enthusiastic, able to deliver results in a complex environment, whilst responding constructively to challenging new ideas and inputs  Experience in Salesforce data cloud  Good to have experience in data migration Desirable skills/knowledge/experience: * 3+ years of experience as a Digital or Technology Product Owner in any Technical/Engineering industry This is an excellent opportunity on a great project of work, If you are looking for your next exciting opportunity, apply now for your CV to reach me directly, we will respond as soon as possible. LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds. Award Winning LA International, winner of the Recruiter Awards for Excellence, Best IT Recruitment Company, Best Public Sector Recruitment Company and overall Gold Award winner, has now secured the most prestigious business award that any business can receive, The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade, for the second consecutive period.

The task scope covers: Participation in the projects with the other teams (developers, software deploy- ment team, network, enterprise architecture team, IT security team) Design of new applications based on Linux servers and/or containers (devops) Study of solutions on the market to continuously improve the computer and stor- age infrastructure at the GSC Systems operation activities, including setup, installation, tuning, troubleshoot- ing, monitoring and maintenance (including management of firmware patches) of the Linux servers (circa 600): - installing, configuring and hardening new Linux RedHat servers (physical and virtual) - updating the image for the automated server deployment manage and use the open-source infrastructure monitoring for the Linux RedHat (RH) servers + troubleshooting of OS errors - perform security patching - manage RH Satellite for distributing packages - manage RH idM for the admin users on the servers - manage application service accounts - manage server certificates and configure SSH keys for non-interac- tive access - manage servers via Ansible - manage containers both on Docker hosts and on Kubernetes clus- ters - manage the OS of Oracle physical clusters - Incident and Problem Management activities (e.g., fault analysis, diagnosis and resolution) - Elaboration of operational guidelines and procedures for the management of the Linux servers and related environment - Change and Configuration management activities (e.g., assessment, scheduling, implementation, review) - Specification of solutions for operations: Specification of teams (number of per- sons, competencies), specification of management systems (technology, archi- tecture), specification of any other tools needed in operations such as Configu- ration Management Database, Knowledge System, etc. - Design of management systems and other tools: design of architecture, tech- nical evaluation of alternatives offered on the market, conduct of proof of con- cept, testing in pre-production environment - Implementation of new solutions for operations: migration of new systems in production environment, definition of procedures, training of operators for new procedures, development of tools (customisation or configuration of commer- cial tools, development of small tools such as websites, databases, etc.) - Evaluation of quality and efficiency of operations by definition and implementa- tion of metrics; periodical follow-up of metrics; proposal of measures to improve quality and/or efficiency of operations

As a Lead Technical Architect (Solutions) you will work on multiple projects across the data delivery programme on problems that require broad architectural thinking. This post is within a data delivery setting, especially one focussed on AWS, Quantexa and Databricks. You will: Be responsible for leading the technical solution design of data systems and services, justifying and communicating design decisions; Assure data services and system quality, ensuring the technical work fits into the data platform and wider IBCA technology strategy; Drive continuous improvement in system reliability, performance, and security; Regularly collaborate and find agreement with senior stakeholders, providing direction and challenge; Be proactive in working with Product Managers and Engineers to identify problems and translating these into scalable technical solutions; Participate in architecture reviews, and technical workshops. Responsibilities Secure Cloud & Platform Architecture (AWS Focus): You will lead and optimise the design of resilient, high-availability AWS environments, ensuring that every infrastructure component is built with a "security-by-design" approach to protect against evolving threats; Architecture Patterns & Standards: You will establish and uphold the technical standards for the organisation, creating reusable patterns and governance frameworks that ensure consistency and quality across all engineering squads; Comprehensive Data Management Design: This involves architecting the end-to-end lifecycle of data systems and services, ensuring the underlying infrastructure supports high-performance analytics and robust data sovereignty; Digital Service Integration & API Management: You will oversee the connectivity of modern digital services by designing scalable API layers and integration strategies that allow internal and external systems to communicate securely and efficiently; Agile Delivery & Stakeholder Translation: You will bridge the gap between complex technical roadmaps and strategic business goals, communicating technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders to ensure smooth, iterative delivery.

Storage & Server Architect As an Storage & Server Architect you would be a key part of the Infrastructure unit and have overall responsibility to design, maintain and provide 2& 3 line support for all Storage & Systems hardware, Operating & Virtualisation Software, Open source and application integration. You would work towards providing a 24/7 support system. Ensure maximum availability of core systems and that performance monitoring is in place and appropriate system capacity planning is undertaken. You would also ensure that required DR and BCP provisions exist and are tested regularly. Maintenance of Infrastructure Provide storage & server hardware, virtualisation,services management, enable technical innovation that can create business value to assist with the company’s requirements and expectations. Lead large technology initiatives to build and maintain key elements of the company’s infrastructure and associated product portfolio, including but not limited to 24x7 data centre infrastructure management and evolution, remote access services and enterprise-scale database environments. Carry out annual technology and user audits. Manage the provision and maintenance of 3 party infrastructure to agreed SLA’s including hosting, personal computing support and networking at all major NGC locations. Manage all NGC owned servers, switches, firewalls and routers. Maintain appropriate licenses and subscriptions for computer hardware and software. IT Governance Manage system security, performance monitoring and alerting, ensure appropriate backups are in place and retained for all systems. Ensure a disaster recovery arrangement is maintained, as required in collaboration with the compliance team and operations are in place to ensure compliance during business continuity events. Work with Compliance Director in the development, adoption and enforcement of Information Security policies, procedures and standards. Work with the Network and Security Architect to ensure appropriate security, patching, maintain secure Internet connectivity & private network connection to/from our partners, customers and other Data & Financial Clearing House Work with Database and Development team for all compute, server and storage providing requirement & 24/7 availability. Complete annual reviews and internal audit of required ISO 27001, 9001 and 22301 standards. Competency Profile Extensive knowledge of data centre operations, , network engineering, datacentre applications, client/server computing and production operations support. Specific technologies of note include Microsoft Server & Linux Operating System. Experience with mid tier storage hardware & appliance is essential, more specifical experience with IBM Storage V37xx & V50xx series will be beneficial. Infrastructure applications, Networking, VMware, Firewall, Security and/or Enterprise-level SANs. Experience with Cloud Services & Provisioning (Experience of Oracle Cloud would be preferential) Ability to lead cross functional project teams in implementing projects of a complex nature. The Client has offices in Central London – although this position will mainly remote. The salary for this role will be circa £65K - £80K. Please do send your CV to us in Word format along with your salary and availability.