Job Description
As a Lead Technical Architect you will lead and be responsible for the design, documentation, configuration and installation of Intune managed Windows devices to an estate of >50,000 endpoints.
Rate: up to £750 per day
Inside IR35
Location: London, one day a week, four remote
Length: 12 months +
Must have active SC Clearance
As a Lead Technical Architect you w ill:
Lead and been responsible for the design, documentation, configuration and installation of EUCS solutions based on Microsoft 365 to best practice.
Experience in all aspects of Microsoft 365 services, with a focus on Identity and Authentication (AzureAD), Endpoint Manager, SCCM, Co-management, Microsoft Managed Desktop, Windows 10/11, Microsoft Defender, Exchange Online, Teams, OneDrive and Sharepoint
A good understanding of the varying technologies, platforms and operational models
Owned the structure and delivery of technical design workshops ensuring the required outcome is delivered and the results captured
Determined where gaps exist in current architectures, people and processes and been proactive in bridging those gaps
Managed the discovery and documentation of existing and future user, business, security and technical requirements
Experience in driving requirements workshops to understand the customer business and operational outcomes.
Delivered using Agile best practices and tooling
Steered new solutions to a successful outcome where multiple 3rd parties or technical stake holders are involved
Managed internal resources and 3rd parties and their deliverables to ensure timely and quality delivery of solutions
Identified and engaged the right areas of the business to maximise support for automation initiatives
Created and managed Statements of Work for mid-contract changes
Helped drive the policies and procedures that contribute to the maintenance of ISO, Data Protection and ITIL based standards/processes (Incident, Problem, Change, Asset and Release Management).
As a Lead Technical Architect the required Experience & Responsibilities are:
Manage technical work related to the extension of a new large scale EUC desktop deployment workstream to multi site/'000's of users
Responsible for architecture, design, documentation, configuration and implementation of the EUCS solution to best practice.
Manage the analysis of the as-is desktop environment - user settings, configuration, deployment, applications, environmental settings, infrastructure services.
Understand the existing desktop environment and its dependencies to provide informed feedback to the project/stakeholders
Technical assurance of configuration for desktop deployment - technical planning, change, design, documentation.
Define and implement security management for desktop services to meet organisational security requirements
Oversee and plan automation of desktop deployment, application delivery and service change (patching updates etc)
Provide leadership in support of architects and engineers for project deployment and delivery activities
Organise technical output from varying sources, internal/external into actionable plans to progress the workstream
Manage estimation for resourcing for technical roles relating to desktop design, configuration or deployment.
Manage output of engineering and technical staff in terms of timeliness, accuracy and being fit for purpose standards and requirements
Raise requests with existing support teams to progress testing or rollout
Work with and manage outputs from vendors and partners who are participating in the workstream
Lead the creation of Agile Issues and management of the technical backlog and sprint tasks for the engineering function
If you would like to know more regarding this Lead Technical Architect contract, please apply here and we'll be in touch.
Lead Technical Architect - SC Cleared