Solutions Architect Jobs in Manchester

Lynx Recruitment is working with a global, award-winning Microsoft consultancy that partners with some of the world’s most recognisable brands across multiple industries. Their mission is to empower people to achieve more through technology, specialising in Microsoft 365 and improving the employee experience through Teams, SharePoint, and the Power Platform.They are part of a 9,000-strong international group with offices across Europe, the US, and New Zealand. Across all locations, they pride themselves on a culture that values creativity, entrepreneurship, and technical excellence.What you’ll be doing:

Designing, building, and testing Power Platform solutions alongside creative, technical, and project teams.

Gathering and analysing client requirements, translating them into business requirements and technical specifications.

Delivering high-quality Power Platform applications for clients, ensuring projects are completed on time and to specification.

What they’re looking for:

Proven experience in solution design, governance, and delivery using the Power Platform.

Hands-on experience building and configuring Power Apps (Canvas) and Power Automate workflows.

Knowledge of Microsoft 365, including licensing, is advantageous.

Experience in business development, including pre-sales and proposal support.

Excellent communication skills, able to collaborate with colleagues, clients, and partners effectively.

2:1 degree in IT, Business, or a related field.

Why join them: You’ll be joining a team that celebrates technical curiosity, values individual strengths, and supports professional growth. Work on exciting projects for leading organisations while developing your skills in the Microsoft ecosystem.

Enterprise / Solution Architect Insurance Systems

Stealth IT Consulting Limited

Were currently supporting a large transformation programme and are looking for an experienced Enterprise / Solution Architect with strong insurance domain expertise to join a major modernisation initiative.This role focuses on shaping and governing enterprise and solution architecture across core insurance platforms, with a strong emphasis on Guidewire, API-first integration, and legacy modernisation.Key ResponsibilitiesEnterprise Architecture

Define and maintain enterprise and solution architectures across insurance domains (Policy, Billing, Claims, Underwriting).

Create and maintain as-is and to-be architectures and transformation roadmaps aligned to business strategy.

Establish, govern, and chair Architecture Review Boards, setting architectural standards, principles, and policies.

Work closely with senior business stakeholders to ensure technology strategy aligns with product offerings and regulatory requirements.

Solution & Integration Architecture

Design API-first, microservices-based integration solutions across core insurance platforms.

Lead integrations between policy, billing, and claims systems (e.g. Guidewire) and internal/external platforms.

Oversee the use of Guidewire Edge APIs, GX Models, Messaging Framework, and Integration Gateway.

Support and lead data migration and legacy modernisation, ensuring smooth transition to modern insurance platforms.

Required Experience

Strong background as an Enterprise or Solution Architect within insurance or financial services.

Proven experience working across policy, claims, billing, and underwriting systems.

Hands-on Guidewire architecture experience (Integration, Edge APIs, GX, Messaging).

Strong understanding of API-led architecture, microservices, and integration patterns.

Experience leading architecture governance and working with senior stakeholders.

Background in legacy transformation and data migration programmes.

Nice to Have

Experience on large-scale digital transformation programmes.

Knowledge of insurance regulatory and compliance standards.

Cloud platform exposure (AWS / Azure / GCP).

Senior Technical Consultant - Storage & Compute

Location: Manchester & Hybrid | Client Facing Role Salary: circa £70,000 to £85,000 package depending on experienceA global technology consultancy with offices in Manchester, is urgently looking for a new Senior Technical Consultant with strong experience of Storage & Compute solutions to join their Professional Services team. You will specialise in Storage & Compute consulting, solution design and implementation of complex technical projects.Key Responsibilities:

Consult, design, plan and implement complex technical solutions

Be client facing - Design and deliver Cisco implementation services across a wide range of clients

Act as a Storage & Compute SME - internally with project teams and externally with clients

Lead project design workshops on implementations

Low Level Designs (LLD), Statement of Works (SoW) and other technical documentation

What You’ll Need:

Strong experience of a variety of Storage technical solutions (Dell EMC / HPE / Netapp)

Strong experinece with VMware and virtualisation

Previous clent facing experience in a Professional Services / Consultancy role.

Professional certifications (e.g. VCP).

Excellent communication skills

The ability to provide technical leadership as an SME in Storage & Compute.

Eligibility for Security Clearance

This is an urgent vacancy where the hiring manager will be shortlisting for interview immediately. Please send your CV to me ASAP to be considered.Randstad Technologies Ltd is a leading specialist recruitment business for the IT & Engineering industries. Please note that due to a high level of applications, we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.

AWS Solution Architect

£70-90,000 GBP bonus Hybrid WORKING Location: Manchester, North West - United Kingdom Type: PermanentAWS Solution Architect (Active SC Required) Location: London / Manchester / Leeds (hybrid & flexible working) Contract: Permanent Clearance: Active SC required (no sponsorship available)We are looking for an experienced AWS Solution Architect to lead and support large-scale cloud migration and cloud-native transformation initiatives. This is a customer-facing, hands-on architecture role where you will define, design, and assure AWS solutions across complex, multi-account environments.You will work closely with engineering teams and stakeholders to shape cloud adoption strategies, define migration patterns, and ensure platforms are secure, scalable, and well-architected from day one.Key Responsibilities

Act as the technical lead for AWS migration and cloud enablement initiatives

Elicit and translate business and technical requirements into robust AWS architectures

Define and document architecture artefacts including baselines, target states, roadmaps, patterns, and reference architectures

Design reusable migration and deployment patterns using Infrastructure as Code

Conduct architectural reviews and ensure best use of AWS services and vendor technologies

Support engineering teams with optimisation, troubleshooting, and incident escalation

Drive automation, standardisation, and CI/CD adoption across platforms

Produce clear technical documentation to support reuse and global delivery

Skills & Experience

Strong experience delivering AWS cloud migrations and cloud-native solutions

Deep knowledge of AWS architecture within large, multi-account environments

Considered an AWS subject matter expert, able to solve complex technical challenges

Experience with DevOps and CI/CD tooling

Solid understanding of AWS security and networking services

Comfortable working in Agile delivery environments

Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Desirable (Not Essential)

AWS certifications (Solutions Architect Associate/Professional or Security/Networking specialisms)

Scaled Agile experience (e.g. SAFe, Scrum@Scale)

Stakeholder management and mentoring junior engineers

Additional Information

Active SC clearance is mandatory

No sponsorship available

Flexible and hybrid working supported

Opportunity to work on complex, high-impact systems in secure environments

Reference: AMC - AQU - bawsaPostcode: Manchester (M1)#adqu

Solutions Manager

SR2 - Socially Responsible Recruitment

Location: UK Remote Salary: £40,000 - £55,000Really cool new client for us, an enterprise, cloud-based SaaS platform that helps safety-conscious organisations simplify inspection evidence, achieve compliance, and demonstrate transparency in record-keeping. With 5000+ active users, over 500paying customers they support organisations across local government, corporate, and SME environments with a particularly strong footprint in the offshore wind and renewable energy sector. The mission is simple: help customers operate more safely, efficiently, and sustainably.The Role We are supporting the hire for a Solutions Manager to own the successful delivery of their enterprise customers from solution design through implementation, adoption, and ongoing growth.This is a post-sales, delivery-focused role. You’ll sit at the intersection of Sales, Product, Engineering, and Customer Success, ensuring enterprise customers are onboarded effectively, configured correctly, and set up for long-term success.If you enjoy turning complex requirements into scalable solutions and taking real ownership once the contract is signed this role is for you.What You’ll Be Doing:

Lead the implementation and onboarding of enterprise customers, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and with high adoption.

Define and document scalable, repeatable solutions for complex enterprise requirements.

Project manage end-to-end implementations, coordinating internal teams (Engineering, Support, CS) and senior external stakeholders.

Act as a technical and operational advisor to customers during deployment and early adoption.

Partner with Senior Account Managers to identify and support expansion opportunities within key accounts.

Capture real-world customer feedback and translate it into clear insights for Product and Engineering.

Help build and improve implementation playbooks, best practices, and delivery processes as the enterprise customer base scales.

What they’re looking for You don’t need to be hands-on technical but you do need strong technical credibility and the confidence to work with enterprise stakeholders.You’ll likely come from a background such as:

Solutions Manager/Solutions Consultant (post-sales)

Implementation Consultant (Enterprise SaaS)

Technical Account Manager (Enterprise)

Post-sales Solution Architect

Experience they’re looking for:

Delivering complex SaaS implementations for enterprise customers

Managing multiple stakeholders across technical and non-technical teams

Translating customer requirements into practical, scalable solutions

Strong project management and communication skills

Comfort operating in ambiguity and shaping processes as you go

Nice to have:

Experience in regulated, infrastructure, or asset-heavy industries

Exposure to compliance, inspections, or operational platforms

Experience supporting expansion or upsell motions post-implementation

What Success Looks Like:

Enterprise customers go live smoothly and adopt the platform quickly

Implementations are predictable, repeatable, and well-documented

Customers see value early and want to expand their use of Papertrail

Sales, Product, and Engineering trust you as a bridge between teams

Delivery insights actively shape product decisions and roadmap priorities

Why them?

Work on a mission-driven product supporting safety and sustainability

Real ownership and influence as the enterprise function scales

Exposure to complex, high-impact customers and projects

Collaborative, growing SaaS business with clear momentum

Opportunity to shape how enterprise delivery is done, not just execute it

Solutions Architect- 12 month FTC£85,000 + Car allowanceBolton- HybridWe’re partnering with a client who is looking to hire an experienced Solutions Architect with a strong data-led focus to support the evolution of their cloud and analytics landscape.This role is well suited to someone who enjoys operating at both a strategic and hands-on level, shaping data architecture while guiding technical teams through complex transformation initiatives.As Solutions Architect, you will be responsible for:

Gaining a deep understanding of the client’s existing data platforms and legacy systems, and defining clear migration paths to Azure-based, cloud-native data solutions.

Ensuring all future data and analytics platforms are designed with security, governance and regulatory compliance embedded from the outset.

Translating business requirements into a cohesive data architecture strategy, ensuring current and future reporting and analytics needs are captured, documented and delivered.

Leading architectural design activity, including facilitating workshops with engineering and data teams to agree target architectures and solution designs.

Defining and maintaining relationships between data sources, acting as a key point of governance to assess the impact of new or proposed data initiatives.

What Our Client Is Looking For

5+ years’ experience delivering data platform and system migrations from on-premises environments to the public cloud (Azure preferred).

Strong knowledge of cloud-based data storage, data cataloguing and lineage, ETL processes and data pipelines.

Hands-on expertise with Python and SQL for data processing, alongside experience promoting DevOps practices and an SRE mindset for continuous improvement.

The ability to work at a conceptual and strategic level, defining enterprise data architecture and guiding teams in turning strategy into delivery.

Robert Walters Operations Limited is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates

Network Solutions Design Engineer - Cisco

Prestigious opportunity for a Network Solutions Design Engineer (Cisco) with a global leader in the provision of cutting-edge connectivity and digital solutions, delivering world-class broadband, mobile and network services. Our customer solutions design team lead the way in implementing complex Voice, Network, Wireless and Security Solutions across a wide array of vendors such as Cisco, Fortinet, Juniper, Aruba and Microsoft using technologies such as SD-WAN, SD-A, ISE, ACI, Webex, MS Teams & NextGen FWs.We are inviting you to join our success story based in Manchester, Liverpool or Newcastle in a hybrid role 3 days a week in the office and 2 days remotely.Taking High Level Designs into the Low-Level detail at the Post-Sale stage, implementing the solution followed by thorough testing before handing over to the relevant support or managed service teams. You will be responsible for: -

Capturing detailed customer technical requirements and translating them into technical solutions design

Management and delivery of the technical direction of the solutions design

Managing the review and validation processes for both new and in-life products and services

Managing customer solutions design engagement, statement of work creation and 3rd party deliverables

Facilitating strong customer relationships at a senior level

Customer migration planning and implementation

Resolving complex solution and service issues, leading root cause analysis and escalation

Identification of potential risks, implementing controls and mitigations

Ensuring delivery of thought leadership in complex bids and agreeing a strategic approach

If you possess a combination of the following skills, then LET’S TALK!

Experience in low level and high level design of complex network solutions

Strong stakeholder management and leadership skills

Expertise working with

Cisco Catalyst

Cisco DNA Center (DNAC)

Cisco ISE

Firewall design, implementation and configuration is advantageous but not essential.

WiFi deployments using Ekahau to complete both predicative and APOS assessments

Ability to deploy configurations from designs

In return, you will be rewarded with ongoing training and career development, a 10% on target bonus, enviable pension scheme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, discounted broadband, mobile and TV packages and much more.What you need to do nowIf you’re interested in this role, click ‘apply now’ to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn’t quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C’s, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk

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Solutions Architect - Senior Consultant (Contract)

Check out this brand new role!Ready for a new challenge?Are you looking for work that makes a difference? Do you want to work with people who learn and grow together?If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government and business.The roleYou’ll take end-to-end ownership of solutions for our clients, and align them to business outcomes, technology strategy, commercial/financial constraints, and architecture governance.You’ll create solutions blueprints with views that express business, data, application, and technology, to address stakeholder needs.You’ll effectively communicate the solution through governance boards, stakeholder groups, and delivery teams to bring the solution to life and assure effective delivery.Ensure that work is carried out in accordance with Opencast’s quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures, as well as applicable customer policies, standards, and procedures while working on client.Experience in delivering digital services for the UK government is highly valuable for many of our projects. Therefore, familiarity with the GDS toolkit will be essential.Applicants must either currently hold active Security Clearance (SC) or meet the eligibility criteria to obtain it.Eligibility requires UK citizenship, continuous residence in the UK for the past five years, and no single absence from the UK exceeding 28 consecutive days.Essential experienceWe’ll want you to demonstrate experience of solutions architecture. You don’t need to have had the job title of solutions architect before.In your CV and interview, please show how you have:• built strong relationships with senior stakeholders to understand their views.• a strong foundation in software development, design, and delivery roles.• enabled and assured a delivery team’s implementation of your solutions architectures effectively.• worked with development life-cycle methodologies such as Agile software development, Scrum, and DevOps.• a good working knowledge of architecture frameworks and modelling languages.As well as solution architecture skills, there are essential core skills you’ll need to be a great consultant.In the interview, please show how you:• demonstrated the significant, tangible business benefits of the proposals you initiate for clients• take a methodical and considered approach to solving problems• take a collaborative and consultative approach to leading and guiding teams• keep up to date with new and emerging technology trends and their practical applicationIn the interview, we’ll ask you to describe how you approach architecture, deliver business outcomes, and engage stakeholders. If you’re successful in the first interview, we’ll ask you back to present a proposal from a case study and problem statement.Desirable experienceSome areas of experience are not essential but relevant to the role:• Experienced with Architecture Frameworks (e.g. TOGAF, Zachman, Open Agile Architecture)If you have this experience, please show it on your CV and we can talk about it in the interview.If you don’t have this experience please do still apply, as we can coach you in these areas if you join us.Salary£500-£600 per day (working inside IR35)Where you’ll workYour working time at Opencast will be split between multiple locations, including from our HQ and hub locations, client site or home. Travel is part of life at Opencast, and takes in account requirements of your work, our clients and your team.We include youWe welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.InterviewJob interviews are on Microsoft Teams. We’ll make any adjustments to help you.Want to know more?Visit our website or email careers@opencastsoftware.com.

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Solutions Architect - Senior Consultant

Check out this brand new role!Ready for a new challenge?Are you looking for work that makes a difference? Do you want to work with people who learn and grow together?If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government and business.The roleYou’ll take end-to-end ownership of solutions for our clients, and align them to business outcomes, technology strategy, commercial/financial constraints, and architecture governance.You’ll create solutions blueprints with views that express business, data, application, and technology, to address stakeholder needs.You’ll effectively communicate the solution through governance boards, stakeholder groups, and delivery teams to bring the solution to life and assure effective delivery.Ensure that work is carried out in accordance with Opencast’s quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures, as well as applicable customer policies, standards, and procedures while working on client.Applicants must either currently hold active Security Clearance (SC) or meet the eligibility criteria to obtain it.Eligibility requires UK citizenship, continuous residence in the UK for the past five years, and no single absence from the UK exceeding 28 consecutive days.Essential experienceWe’ll want you to demonstrate experience of solutions architecture. You don’t need to have had the job title of solutions architect before.In your CV and interview, please show how you have:• built strong relationships with senior stakeholders to understand their views.• a strong foundation in software development, design, and delivery roles.• enabled and assured a delivery team’s implementation of your solutions architectures effectively.• worked with development life-cycle methodologies such as Agile software development, Scrum, and DevOps.• a good working knowledge of architecture frameworks and modelling languages.As well as solution architecture skills, there are essential core skills you’ll need to be a great consultant.In the interview, please show how you:• demonstrated the significant, tangible business benefits of the proposals you initiate for clients• take a methodical and considered approach to solving problems• take a collaborative and consultative approach to leading and guiding teams• keep up to date with new and emerging technology trends and their practical applicationIn the interview, we’ll ask you to describe how you approach architecture, deliver business outcomes, and engage stakeholders. If you’re successful in the first interview, we’ll ask you back to present a proposal from a case study and problem statement.Desirable experienceSome areas of experience are not essential but relevant to the role:• Experienced with Architecture Frameworks (e.g. TOGAF, Zachman, Open Agile Architecture)If you have this experience, please show it on your CV and we can talk about it in the interview.If you don’t have this experience please do still apply, as we can coach you in these areas if you join us.SalarySenior consultant salary range: £70,000 - £90,000What our offer includesA competitive pension, health cash plan, share options and discretionary bonus.Flexible hours and 25 days’ holiday.People to support you every step of the way.Where you’ll workYour working time at Opencast will be split between multiple locations, including from our HQ and hub locations, client site or home. Travel across the UK is part of life at Opencast. This varies in frequency, and takes into account requirements of your work, our clients and your team.We include youWe welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.InterviewJob interviews are on Microsoft Teams. We’ll make any adjustments to help you.Want to know more?Visit our website or email careers@opencastsoftware.com.We are not working with recruitment agencies on this vacancy. If you are interested in this position, please apply directly with Opencast.

Pre-Sales Solution Consultant

Pre-Sales Solution Consultant Talos 360 - £50,000-£60,000+Bonus Warrington/HybridTalos360 is not just growing, we re leading. As the fastest-growing HR technology vendor in the UK, we re transforming how organisations attract, hire, and retain talent. Our award-winning platform is trusted by hundreds of employers to deliver exceptional candidate and employee experiences.We re proud to be recognised as a UK Best Workplace and the Best Workplace in Europe (2024). Our culture is built on collaboration, innovation, and impact - and we re looking for someone exceptional to help us scale even further.We re now looking for a Pre-Sales Solution Consultant to help shape how we present our technology to the market and drive growth across both private and public sector customers (including through our G-Cloud framework). As our new Pre-Sales Solution Consultant you will work closely with the Sales team in providing Technical Solutions and Demonstrations for customers.The Pre-Sales Solution Consultant will be responsible for:

Deliver engaging, consultative demos that connect technology to business outcomes.

Partner with sales teams to design tailored solutions.

Lead the preparation of RFPs, tenders, and G-Cloud submissions.

Work closely with Product and Marketing to shape go-to-market strategy and messaging.

Provide technical and commercial insight to support key enterprise and partner deals.

What You ll Bring

Experience in pre-sales, solution consulting, or sales engineering (ideally SaaS or HR tech).

Excellent presentation and communication skills - you love telling the value story.

Experience managing tenders or public sector frameworks (G-Cloud experience a plus).

A collaborative mindset and passion for helping customers succeed.

Why Talos?

Work for a high-growth, award-winning UK tech company.

Shape how we go to market as we scale.

Hybrid working with a buzzing HQ in Warrington.

A culture built on trust, innovation, and development.

If you are an experienced Pre-Sales Solution Consultant looking to join an exciting high-growth business that has regularly been recognised as 1 of top places to work in the UK then this could be ideal for you. Please apply asap for an immediate interview.

Service Management Enterprise Architect

Job title: Service Management Enterprise Architect (Contract)Contract: 3 monthsLocation: SalfordDays in office: 3 days onsite (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) 2 days working remotelyTravel: Occasional between London/ManchesterScope of the roleOur Retail Client is accelerating delivery of a new Configuration Management Database (CMDB) built on BMC Helix, with integration requirements spanning Helix Discovery, Dynatrace, SCCM/Intune, SolarWinds, and other estate systems.An experienced contract Service Management Enterprise Architect is urgently required to stabilise the CMDB design, ensure alignment with Design Authority governance, and lead service management centric architecture decisions during the implementation.Job PurposeAs a Service Management Enterprise Architect, you will provide direct architecture leadership across the full lifecycle of our client’s new Helix based CMDB. You will ensure the CMDB design is enterprise grade, supportable, secure, reconciled, and aligned to operational, service, and business capability models.You will function as the architectural bridge between Service Management, Infrastructure, Networks, Observability, Product & Engineering tribes, and partner organisations such as KTSL.You will bring clarity to data models, discovery patterns, integration flows, ownership, reconciliation logic, and service taxonomy, enabling our client’s to launch the CMDB to production with confidence.Key ResponsibilitiesCMDB & Helix Architecture Ownership

Define and own the end to end CMDB architecture, including discovery, integrations, reconciliation, data mastering, lineage, and service models.

Evaluate and recommend the approach for CMDB requirements for services that are delivered through PaaS, SaaS and outsourced services (e.g. Network)

Review and redesign integration patterns involving Helix Discovery, Dynatrace, SCCM/Intune, SolarWinds, and other asset pipelines.

Ensure designs comply with ITSM practices (Incident, Change, Problem, Request) and support operational processes.

Align CMDB data structures to our client’s Metamodel, EA standards, and post cyber incident requirements.

Design Authority & Governance

Prepare Design Authority submissions to the Networks & Enabling Tech Design Authority and Cross Tribe DA, ensuring holistic architectural assessment rather than piecemeal approvals.

Drive fast cycle architectural decision making, ensuring traceability to principles, standards, and risk management.

Service Management Architecture Leadership

Support the activities to map the CMDB against the Business Capability Model and identifying gaps and documenting assumptions where appropriate.

Define target architectures, transitional states, and roadmaps for service management capabilities, leveraging best practice technology frameworks (e.g. ITIL)

Support teams in developing service taxonomies, support models, SLAs/OLAs, and service centric dependency maps.

Cross Functional Stakeholder Engagement

Lead or participate in workshops with:

oPoS, Networks, Datacentre, Observability, Cloud, EA, Finance, and Security.

Drive alignment on asset onboarding, missing asset classes, and service relationship modelling.

Technical Delivery Support

Translate architecture designs into actionable guidance for engineering teams and suppliers.

Support troubleshooting, gap analysis, and mitigation activities impacting CMDB launch targets.

Ensure integration patterns support resiliency, failover, and end to end reconciliation.

Required Experience & SkillsArchitecture & Technical Skills

Proven experience architecting ITSM platforms (Helix preferred, ServiceNow or similar acceptable).

Deep understanding of CMDB design, data modelling, discovery, reconciliation, and multi source CI ingestion.

Familiarity with our client’s tools and estate patterns, including Helix, Dynatrace, SCCM/Intune, and network monitoring tools.

Experience with enterprise integration mechanisms (APIs, ETL, middleware, event pipelines).

Service Management Expertise

Strong grounding in ITIL v4, operational process design, and Service Management maturity uplift.

Experience designing support models (L1-L3), workflow integrations, and operational handoffs.

Enterprise Architecture

Skilled in creating transitional architectures, roadmaps, principles, blueprints, and governance.

Able to rationalise complex environments across infrastructure, cloud, applications, and platforms.

Soft Skills

Exceptional communication, cross team collaboration, and senior stakeholder influencing.

Ability to simplify complexity into practical architectural decisions under time pressure.

Comfortable working in rapid response, ambiguous, and high stakes transformation environments.

Deliverables (First 8-12 Weeks)1.End to end CMDB Architecture Pack for DA approval (incl. discovery, integrations, reconciliation flows).2.Updated CMDB Metamodel & Service Taxonomy, aligned to the clients Enterprise Metamodel.3.Integration redesign and gap plan addressing missing assets and data quality concerns.4.Interim CMDB roadmap including go live readiness, risk mitigation, and dependency mapping.5.Knowledge transfer plan to support permanent hires arriving Feb-April.

Senior Technical Consultant - Storage & Compute

Randstad Technologies Recruitment

Location: London & Hybrid Client Facing Role Salary: circa 70,000 to 85,000 package depending on experienceA global technology consultancy based in London, is urgently looking for a new Senior Technical Consultant with strong experience of Storage & Compute solutions to join their Professional Services team. You will specialise in Storage & Compute consulting, solution design and implementation of complex technical projects.Key Responsibilities:

Consult, design, plan and implement complex technical solutions

Be client facing - Design and deliver Cisco implementation services across a wide range of clients

Act as a Storage & Compute SME - internally with project teams and externally with clients

Lead project design workshops on implementations

Low Level Designs (LLD), Statement of Works (SoW) and other technical documentation

What You’ll Need:

Strong experience of a variety of Storage technical solutions (Dell EMC / HPE / Netapp)

Strong experinece with VMware and virtualisation

Previous clent facing experience in a Professional Services / Consultancy role.

Professional certifications (e.g. VCP).

Excellent communication skills

The ability to provide technical leadership as an SME in Storage & Compute.

Eligibility for Security Clearance

This is an urgent vacancy where the hiring manager will be shortlisting for interview immediately. Please send your CV to me ASAP to be considered.Randstad Technologies Ltd is a leading specialist recruitment business for the IT & Engineering industries. Please note that due to a high level of applications, we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.

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