SYP - IT Technical Architect – December 2020

Role: IT Technical Architect – December 2020

Department: Information Services

Location: Nunnery Square, Sheffield and Melton, Humberside

Salary: £36,369 - £40,662

Hours: 37

Contract Type: Temporary for 12 months

As an IT Technical Architect, you will be the subject matter expert for South Yorkshire Police and Humberside Police and be responsible for evolving and designing technical infrastructure architect produces and solutions with new and current technologies in differing locations. These will range from network, server, telephony, storage and database specialisms.

You will be responsible for supporting the Asset and Configuration Management, facilitating rapid and efficient planning, approval and implementation of Asset and Configuration changes and for providing specialist technical skills and experience surrounding the set up and use of Asset, Configuration.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Responsible for being the subject matter expert with a strong knowledge and understanding of Solution Design within and ITIL based Infrastructure environment.
• Responsibility for evolving and designing technical infrastructure architect products and solutions with new and current technologies in differing locations, ranging from network, server, technology, storage and database specialism.
• Responsible for supporting the Infrastructure Manager in transition planning from the regional and national roadmap, gathering information, liaising with senior officers and key internal and external stakeholders.
• To be the point of contact on customer configuration management issues within designs.
• To oversee the technical aspects of force programmes in alignment with organisational goals.

Skills and experience:

• Strong knowledge of ITIL within an Infrastructure environment.
• An understanding of project management, including Prince 2 and the ability to manage stakeholders.
• A good understanding of network hardware technologies, CISCO preferred (Firewalls, Proxy Servers, Routers, Switches, WIFI, WAN Acceleration).
• Knowledge of licence and asset management.

For further information relating to the role and tasks of this position, please refer to the attached role profile.

Benefits:

We offer generous entitlements and supportive policies to enable a better work-life balance, some of which are listed below:

• Generous annual leave allowance
• Flexible and agile working
• Generous ‘family’ leave
• Voluntary CPD Events for all staff to allow continuous development
• Mentoring & Coaching Scheme
• Paid Professional Subscriptions when relevant to role
• Access to a range of occupational health facilities
• Generous pension scheme
• Employee assistance service ( accessible 24/7)
• Additional benefits for Westfield Health members
• Cycle to work scheme
• Sports and Social Club

Eligibility:

Applicants must meet the minimum requirement checkable history criteria, which must be taken into account for individuals applying to work with South Yorkshire Police in any capacity. A minimum checkable history of 3 years / 5 years is required for this role and successfully undergoing recruitment vetting procedure is a pre-requisite of employment with South Yorkshire Police.

Appearance & Standards:

All tattoos and piercings must be in line with South Yorkshire Police’s Appearance and Standards policy. Tattoos visible on your face, neck, hands or head are not permitted. Any tattoos which could be deemed inappropriate or cause offence will also not be accepted. If you have tattoos, you will need to make a declaration at the time of application.

Closing Date: Tuesday 15 December 2020 at 23:55

Closing dates are not normally extended, other than in exceptional circumstances and agreement is made with the Talent Acquisition Manager, Recruitment and the Line Manager for the role.

Contact point for applicants:

For further information about the role, please contact Alan Maltby on 01482 630080. Please do not contact this number for an application form.

Further Information:

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Diversity & Inclusion:

South Yorkshire Police welcome applications from under-represented communities. For further information on diversity and inclusion within South Yorkshire Police, please visit the diversity and inclusion page:

https://www.southyorkshire.police.uk/sign-up/join-team-syp/diversity-in-the-force/

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Internal Secondments:

To apply for this post as a secondment, you must have the support of your current Line Manager. This should be sent via email to the Hiring Line Manager. Please ensure that the role title and the closing date are stated in the subject of your email.

Without support, your application will not be considered any further.