Offre d'emploi Technical Architect - GPA - G7

As well as the exciting UK-wide property agenda we are delivering a leading-edge technology programme. We’re looking for an exceptional Technical Architect to ensure the successful delivery of this technology programme in the GPA’s property portfolio. We want someone who will seize the challenge and own the role, with energy and a commitment to quality.

Our teams work on exciting projects to deliver new and refurbished Government Buildings across the whole of the country. You will work with colleagues who manage the construction project and with the GPA’s technology specialists and suppliers to ensure the successful delivery of our services in these buildings.

Your role is to tailor our standard designs to meet the needs of the project, and to oversee and assure suppliers whilst they deliver to meet our standards.

We expect that you will have a strong background in IT Infrastructure with demonstrable experience in network implementation.

In particular we are seeking people with strong experience of Wi-Fi implementation and experience of integrating other IT systems onto a network.

As a project architect you will meet the following DDaT role profile:

A Technical Architect is accountable for the delivery of network architecture in different GPA buildings and representing their business area.

At this role level, you will:

• be consulted about network design and provide design patterns

• identify deeper network issues that need fixing

• look for opportunities to collaborate and reuse components, communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• have  a good understanding of most network technologies  including LAN (local area network), WAN (wide area network), WIFI, data centre LAN, SD (software-defined) networks, telephony, mobile solutions infrastructure, unified comms, network management solutions, and network specific security and remote access technologies and approaches

• champion new technologies and solutions

• be a strategic thinker who can communicate network concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Key responsibilities: 

• Contributing to updating the network high level design (HLD) based on project experience

• Tailoring the HLD to meet specific project requirements

• Liaising with other technical specialists to understand requirements and integrate IT systems onto the shared networks.

• Assurance of supplier delivery throughout the project lifecycle including coordination of all technical integrations for our customers.

• Facilitating the network handover, including overseeing early life support during transition to the IT support partner

• Ongoing support to problem solving and technical incident resolution of live services

• Working alongside other technical project managers and often across multiple concurrent projects. 

• Frequent travel  to different sites across  the UK in order to carry out technical  delivery assurance activities with our strategic partners and suppliers.