Job type: Temporary

Solutions/Enterprise Architect

Adkins & Cheurfi are searching for a Solutions/Enterprise Architect for a role-based in the Exeter.

About the Role

  • As part of the enterprise IT architecture team provide architectural leadership and direction in line with corporate strategy. Identify technology blueprint requirements for the evolution of our technology and influence planned programmes of change to facilitate the delivery of the change.
  • Support the delivery of architectural assurance and governance to technology change activity in accordance with an agreed engagement model. Activities may include: acting as design authority for the delivery; production of high level architecture artefacts; regular engagement with the solutions architect for the delivery supporting architectural decision making and peer review; attendance at delivery team meetings e.g. sprint demos, sprint planning etc; assessment and documentation of technical debt associated with the delivery; review of technical delivery to ensure best practice is being applied; ad-hoc architectural support
  • Participate in Enterprise IT Architecture team activity including team meetings, team communications and supporting fellow team members as required to ensure the smooth running and continuous improvement of our services
  • Play an active part as a member of the architecture community if practice sharing knowledge, skills and experience as appropriate

Essential Skills & Abilities

  • Domain expertise in one of the following: application development, technology infrastructure; data or information architecture; weather or climate science; cyber security.
  • Ability to create architecture, and change roadmaps and govern designs against them
  • Ability to communicate architectural descriptions to diverse audiences (developers, business colleagues, senior management) through different forms (written, diagrammatic, verbal)
  • Knowledge of current and legacy enterprise architectural approaches and the influence of technology disruption
  • Ability to influence senior stakeholders to deliver architectural or technological change
  • Understanding of the software development lifecycle, service management lifecycle and process maturity models
  • Ability to work in a cross-organisational, multi-disciplinary environment to deliver successful, lasting change.
  • Knowledge of the role of public cloud services and the implementation of such services in the transformation of business value deliver
  • Knowledge of Wardley Mapping
  • Knowledge of Cynefin

Programme Management Officer / Junior Project Manager

Adkins & Cheurfi are searching for a Programme Management Officer / Junior Project Manager for a role-based in the London, Haringey.

About The Role

The role will to provide:

  • Project Management Office (PMO) support to projects, programmes and other activity delivering the transformation needed to achieve the outcomes in the Council’s Borough Plan. PMO support will include facilitating the practical aspects of our governance arrangements; carrying out initial assurance for board papers and other documents as required; the development and maintenance of the Council’s project management framework; supporting the monitoring of where and how resources are deployed
  • Business and administrative support to the Council’s Transformation Teams including supporting the budget management processes; supporting and facilitating recruitment and on-boarding of staff; leading on the purchasing of equipment and supplies and maintaining the teams intranet pages
  • Ad-Hoc support to Programme & Transformation managers and wider team, for example, undertaking research and supporting the facilitation of workshops

About You

Project Management Officer:

  • You will be a well organised, self-starter, who is able to be flexible in how they approach their duties. Is a team player willing to contribute to finding solutions and to “chip in” to get the job done
  • The post will be ideal for someone who is eager to learn and looking to build a career in the project and programme management and has experience in administration and business support in a large organisation
  • Being inquisitive is welcome asset
  • Basic understanding of project management principles
  • Excellent customer service skills
  • Ability to work with employees from different departments
  • General knowledge of project management software
  • Excellent math skills

Junior Project Manger:

  • Working with BAs and programme manager and providing assistance whenever needed
  • Using project management principles to oversee productivity
  • Forward planning and timeline management
  • Coordinating timelines and adjust objectives according to new directives
  • Meeting with internal clients and ask questions to clarify goals
  • Preparing progress reports for project
  • Attending status meetings and updating team members about potential project delays
  • Directing employees as needed and answering questions about their expectations
  • Managing project risks and alerting project of impending issues

Brokerage Officer

Adkins & Cheurfi are searching for a Brokerage Officer for a role-based in the Cambridge.

Adkins & Cheurfi, on behalf of Cambridgeshire County Council, are looking for a Brokerage Officer to contribute to the effective running of the team and office. As a Brokerage Officer you will be responsible for providing office administration, financial, management and supervision support services, ensuring that services are delivered to a high standard and enabling the Council to deliver a customer focussed service more effectively and efficiently.

These are full-time roles. Office is based in Stanton House, Cambridge, however, the roles would be partially working from home.

Job Specific Accountabilities:

• Respond to service requests for permanent nursing and residential care placements across Cambridgeshire & Peterborough

• Respond to the need for managing block contacts with Providers and teams to ensure efficiency in care planning

• Negotiate and manage care placement prices with independent sector care homes

• Sourcing of Domiciliary Care packages across Cambridgeshire & Peterborough

• Respond to queries, liaising with Officers, Managers and departments to ensure all advice and communication (telephone, letters, emails, face-to-face) is delivered to County Council standards and regulatory guidelines

• Responsible for overseeing document & data management (paper and electronic), including filing and distributing documents

• Oversee the collection, collation & manipulation of a wide range of information using CCC information systems, to generate reports, prepare letters, memos and documents

• Arrange meetings, training events and collect and organise all supporting materials, distributing agendas and minutes as required

• Undertake general clerical & administrative tasks and support the team and service as required

• Assist with monitoring and/or management of budgets in accordance with County council financial processes, systems and instructions as necessary

• Ensure that County Council financial processes and systems are complied with

• Provide discharge/new referrals information for management reports

• Oversee that meetings and events are properly planned and arrangements co-ordinated

• Use and maintain the Council’s databases and information systems to produce reports, presentations, undertake analysis and provide recommendations for action

• Work flexibly with other secretarial staff within the team at all levels to ensure that workloads and key positions are covered in the event of absence or need

Essential Knowledge and Experience:

• Extensive office administrative experience

• Fully proficient at using IT systems, with a good working knowledge of Microsoft Windows and associated office packages

• Knowledge of health and safety legislation

• Knowledge of Data Protection and Equal Opportunities legislation and their requirements

• Understanding of financial management, procedures and processes

Essential Skills:

• Able to prioritise workload

• Able to consistently produce work of a high standard

• Good interpersonal skills – able to communicate in a friendly, open and constructive manner

• Able to work on own initiative with minimal supervision

• Commitment to continuous service development

• Confident to ongoing personal and role development

Systems Support Officer

Adkins & Cheurfi are working on behalf of Cambridgeshire County Council who are looking for a Systems Support Officer to contribute to the effective running of the business support team; to deliver a high quality, customer focussed service responding to queries; To help maintain the ERP systems we support, to ensure that these meet statutory requirements and customer needs.

This System Support Officer will be remote working from the start of the placement, and then a few days a week at the Council’s new site at Alconbury Weald. The position has the possibility of being extended/ becoming permanent after the initial 13 week period.

The Systems Support Officer team provides operational level, functional and technical support to users of the various LGSS ERP platforms, including but not limited to ERP systems. The team are responsible for maintaining system integrity, availability and robustness, support and enhancement of the existing ERP systems and development of new functionality.

 

A suitable candidate will:

  • Act as first point of contact for LGSS systems in order to help system users perform their tasks more effectively, referring difficult problems to Support Analysts as appropriate
  • Perform daily housekeeping activities which support the business processes
  • Assist with managing the call list including monitoring calls logged via Lets Go Direct and direct to the team inbox
  • Work as an effective team member assisting and supporting colleagues across the service as appropriate to ensure accurate and timely service delivery
  • Utilise effective communication and a proactive approach to ensure collaborative working with colleagues across Business Systems, and wider LGSS department e.g. User Admin, Helpdesk

Their key skills will include:

  • Experience of a customer focused support / technical environment
  • Be able to plan own workload, prioritise workloads and time with the minimum of supervision
  • Methodical worker and able to pay attention to detail
  • Be able to adapt, react and contribute positively to changing circumstances

What can we offer you:

  • Holiday entitlement accrued while working
  • Pension contribution from employer
  • Opportunity to apply for permanent positions as an ‘internal candidate’
  • Gain experience to support permanent applications

Procurement Commercial Business Partner

I’m looking for a Commercial business Partner to join one of local authority clients in the Suffolk area

Key skills

  • Good interpersonally skills
  • Knowledge and experience of public sector procurement
  • Experience of undertaking medium to high value procurements (end to end)
  • Preferably CIPS qualified but not essential

This will be working within children’s services within procurement so experience within this area would be very helpful within the role however not essential

We are looking for someone on 6-12 month basis

Senior Commercial Manager

Reporting to the Head of Commercial – Commissioning and Operational, the Senior Commercial Manager is responsible for deploying the Commercial vision and plans which encompass day-to-day spend with suppliers together with strategic plans developed by the Category Management team for all spend areas excluding  Grants, Science and International Development Communities within the Organisation.

 

The position holder will manage the pipeline of commercial activities, allocating work on a day-to-day basis across the operational commercial team.  The prime responsibility is to oversee and manage a range of procurements and market approaches, ensuring effective solutions are achieved, value for money achieved alongside compliance with Government Commercial standards and the Organisation’s internal procedures.

 

This role presents an excellent opportunity to influence and shape how they procure it’s goods and services making substantial impacts to overall outcomes.

 

The post holder is expected to be an expert in all aspects of commercial and procurement with a high degree of competence and skill in negotiating and advising on often complex legal contracts. This role will be responsible for reporting all activities relating to commercial activities within the Operational team and ensuring that this reporting meets the overall objectives of the business.   This role will ensure that all work is delivered in alignment with the Government Commercial  Standards.

 

 

 

 

  1. Main Responsibilities

 

3.1. Developing and using knowledge and experience of supplier markets and based on best practice, create, implement and review market approach procedures covering the commercial lifecycle in compliance with business requirements and Public Sector Contract Regulations 2006 for defined areas of responsibility as directed by the Head of Commercial. This must align with Government Commercial Function – Commercial Functional Standards and BEIS requirements (where captured by external Assurance process like Cabinet Office Spending Controls and Outsourcing Playbook). It should also align to internal procedures including Procurement lifecycle; risk register and other internal processes.
3.2 Ensure operation and timely updating of the commercial pipeline to provide a clear view across the operations team of resourcing needs and distribution of workload to assure timely delivery of commercial initiatives to meet the organisation’s needs. Forecast and highlight to Head of Commercial resource issues arising
3.3 Oversee tools and ensure appropriate use by the team. Overall responsibility for generation of Dashboard reports

 

 

Key Dimensions

 

3.6 To manage, make decisions and provide professional commercial advice to ensure contracts and partnerships are legally compliant to minimise risk in terms of challenge and impact on the business. This role must be strategic thinking and be aware of external influences and barriers.
3.7 Provide support, expert advice and representation where required for high value, novel or contentious procurements. As defined by the Government Commercial Function
3.8 Responsible for signing commercial contracts for a specific value where the requirement meets specific criteria outlined within the Delegated Authorities Policies for the in-scope areas
3.9 Principal interface with key stakeholders for the in-scope commercial areas and when deputising for the Head. Typically advising stakeholders on process, supply markets, timescales, supplier performance management and issues and procurement procedures.
3.10 Promote collaboration and sharing of best practices across the Operations team, the wider commercial team and the wider organisation. Specifically close collaboration with the Head of Commercial -Strategic & Partnerships and their team is vital

 

Person Specification

 

 

  1. Certificated Qualifications

 

Essential Criteria

 

4.1 MCIPS qualified or studying towards qualification;

 

Desirable Criteria

 

4.3. PRINCE II Project Management, MSP
4.4. Management qualification
4.5 IACCM – Contract Management or Supplier Relationship Management

 

 

 

  1. Knowledge, Skills, Experience & Behaviours

 

Essential Criteria

 

5.1. The ability to provide strategic advice and guidance, understanding risk appetites and application of the relevant laws.
5.2 Good experience of Public sector procurement
5.3 Experience of technology procurement would be advantageous
5.2 Adaptable to change in line with new emerging business drivers and government requirements.
5.3 Ability to think laterally, challenge traditional patterns of service delivery and develop new approaches.
5.4 The ability to demonstrate drive and personal effectiveness, with excellent planning and decision skills.
5.5 Excellent interpersonal skills, demonstrating proven ability to build trust and influence across the organisation and with suppliers.
5.6 The ability to develop relationships with key stakeholders across the business and government together with the ability to both negotiate and manage expectations around delivery.
5.7 Able to evaluate, assess and record risks and provide advice on suitable mitigations
5.8 Capability to prepare and deliver presentations to large groups of staff, stakeholders and senior executives

 

 

Senior Project Manager

Job Responsibilities

  • Agree the project scope, identify the outputs and plan the activities needed to deliver the required business change whilst ensuring that resources are available and timescales realistic.
  • Direct and motivate the project team to ensure tasks are completed in line with the project plan and required standards.
  • Monitor, verify, forecast, and report project progress and finances against the plan to identify any issues affecting the project delivery or achievement of the business case, initiating corrective action where necessary.
  • Build relationships and communicate with all stakeholders (including some external stakeholders) of the project to ensure all decisions are focused on achievement of the business case.
  • Work with colleagues from across the delivery team in support of wider Portfolio aims.
  • Identify, analyse, evaluate and prioritise risks to ensure appropriate actions are in place to minimise their potential impacts on the business.

Qualifications, Skills & Abilities

Essential Criteria

  • Current Prince 2 Practitioner and/or APM (Association for Project Management) Certificate or equivalent, or be willing to gain these qualifications. Practitioner in MoP, MSP or MoR would also be an advantage
  • A proven track record of delivering on time and to customers’ requirements, ideally through experience of managing several high-risk business critical projects from start to finish.
  • A proven ability to escalate issues and recommend solutions through formal and informal channels, securing effective outcomes
  • The ability to handle multiple demands and shifting priorities together with an ability to identify the important issues.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills that engage and influence internal and external people at all levels and backgrounds
  • Be able to demonstrate some knowledge of Met Office customers, the products and services delivered to them, and the IT capability within the Met Office.

Desirable Criteria

  • Experience of working in any or all of these areas i) the Defence Sector ii) delivery of complex IT projects iii) delivery of services through a Cloud technology environment.
  • Experience of delivering projects using both agile and waterfall techniques.
  • Experience of collaboration and project tools

Contract length: 6 months

Business Support Assistant

Business Support role but working for the Corporate Leadership Team.  We’re looking for a proactive person who is able to take on the administration/secretariat for the weekly CLT meeting – lots of agenda setting, forward planning, talking to senior people to obtain the papers in a timely manner, puling them together, sense checking and minuting the meeting on an adhoc basis (to cover for me).  Alongside this, they’d also have a couple of boards that would be in their control in terms of secretariat, and particularly pulling together and chasing actions.  The other part of the role would be assisting the team of Senior Exec Assistants during busy periods doing adhoc tasks such as diary management, pulling docs together and a bit of phone cover.  It is a site based role at Civic centre as we’d like them to collect visitors, ensure rooms are ready, set up Smartboards – logistical things like that.

 

It would be an ideal role for someone who wants to get an overall picture of working for a local  Council and who may be aspiring to an SEA role in the future.

VMware Horizon View Administrator

Work Location          –  Toulouse, France

Start Date                  –  Immediate

Job Type                    –  Contract

Contract duration    –  6 months

Language                   –  English

 

Note – We need candidates to be working in Toulouse from day 1. We can consider EU nationals and France WP holders.

 

VMware Horizon View Administrator

Job Description: – L2 Level

 

  • Proficient in VMware Horizon View versions.
  • Install/Configure/Manage enterprise-level virtual environment based on VMware & Citrix platform
  • Install/Configure/Manage enterprise-level virtual environment using VMware ESXi 6.x
  • Implementation and Administration of Horizon View & Citrix components like Connection Servers, Security Servers, DDC Servers, Storefront Servers etc
  • Hands on experience on graphics VDI environment (vGPU with dedicated, shared)
  • User & GPU profile assignment & Re-assignment
  • Experience on Implementing policies within VDI environment using GPO
  • Hands on experience on provisioning of various types of desktop pools (Dynamic, Static, Floating etc)
  • Hands on experience on building VDIs and templates in accordance with standard OS images & mandatory tools/agents
  • Hands on experience on any HCI solution (e.g VXrail, Nutanix, HyperFlex, Simplivity etc). VXrail is preferred
  • Hands on experience on Virtualization, Cluster and Storage concepts
  • Hands on experience on VMware vSwitches & policy configurations (standard, distributed)
  • Hands on experience on configuring vLANs, vSwitches, Portgroups within vSphere environment
  • Good Understanding of enterprise level storage-SAN/NAS & storage protocols like NFS, iSCSI , FC etc
  • Good understanding of application virtualization and testing and publishing the applications
  • Should have good knowledge on VMware VSAN
  • Should have detailed understanding of all components of HCI (N/W, Storage, Sever, Hypervisor etc)
  • Experience in diagnostics performance related issues from all aspect of virtual infrastructure (VDI, VDI Core components, Slowness, GPU etc)
  • Perform daily health check of servers, VDIs & VDI core components
  • Remediation of reported vulnerabilities as per the guidelines
  • Good Understanding of Infrastructure components like Server Hardware, Network & Storage etc
  • Should be able to plan & execute various major activities like server & OS upgrades independently with minimum support
  • Should have experience in working with vendors to raise support tickets, follow up & ensure closure of tickets

 

Desired Candidate Profile:

 

  • 8-10 Years of proven experience with VMware Enterprise Products.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Technology or a related discipline
  • Open with 24/7 shift and good communication skills.
  • Coming from a Strong Troubleshooting background.

Solutions Architect (Security Cleared) – Fully Remote

Job Purpose

 

1.      Support the project team in the selection, implementation (and assurance) of an ECommerce capability.

 

Responsibilities

 

  1. Designing the Ecommerce solution: In collaboration with key internal and external stakeholders you will create appropriate architectural design documentation for the Met Office’s future Ecommerce capability (which is driven by user need and customer experience). You will maintain and communicate a coherent architectural design (inc. TCO and integrations) to enable successful delivery of the new capability.
  2. Assuring the design: As part of a wider peer group you will provide ongoing design assurance throughout the life of the project. This will include: ongoing focus on articulation of user needs; creating, maintaining and communicating architectural artefacts; acting as the technical design authority for the project; maintaining regular engagement with the enterprise IT architect team; making and recording architectural decisions; participating in architectural peer reviews; consider and calculate technical debt.
  3. Supporting the community: As a member of an enterprise wide community of practice you will actively share knowledge and good practice and support the continuous improvement of the architecture function

 

 

Essential Qualifications, Skills & Abilities

 

 

  1. An excellent technical understanding of the solutions underpinning the delivery of the Ecommerce capability
  2. Good working knowledge of enterprise ECommerce platforms including implementation experience of one of more well-known platforms
  3. Integration patterns and API specification methods and standards
  4. An excellent technical understanding of the process requirements underpinning the governance of an Ecommerce capability.
  5. An excellent understanding of development methods (DevOps, CI/CD) which support the delivery of technical solutions
  6. Proven ability to architect and deliver technology solutions that meet user needs and improve customer experience
  7. Proven ability to provide technical coordination and negotiation for projects, including managing suppliers, architectural design assurance, setting goals and timelines with clear priorities, overseeing delivery.
  8. Ability to communicate architectural descriptions and development plans to diverse business and technical audiences through different forms (including written, diagrammatic and verbal).

 

Desirable Qualifications, Skills & Abilities

 

 

  1. Ability to work as part of a product selection team through formalised procurement activity
  2. Experience of architectural modelling notations, and/or specifically C4 architecture model

 

Outcomes

 

 

  1. Design documentation and supporting artefacts which describe the technical response to stated project requirements, encompassing Context and Container diagrams
  2. Documented interfaces between the Ecommerce platform and the integration with existing Met Office services including IAM, API Management (WS02), CMS (Bloomreach), Card Payment system (Stripe), CRM (D365), Service Catalogue (SN), Analytics (CLAS), Account billing (D365)
  3. Support the Product Owner in shaping and prioritising user journeys, driving out the detail in functional and non-functional requirements.
  4. Roadmap and lifecycle plans for the Ecommerce platform and ongoing Business as Usual platform management.