Thrive on openness, respect and collaboration? Good. Us too. Join as a Senior Technology Engineer and create transformative outcomes for people, planet and places.
This role will suit a candidate with technology infrastructure design experience (e.g., Smart Building Technology, Passive ICT infrastructure, Structured Cabling, Wireless Networks, IoT, etc). from brief through to specification and tender support.
What is Technology Consulting?
Digital technology is advancing at pace and continuing to shape the built environment. Buro Happold provide the technology expertise clients require to determine and implement their digital vision.
Our clients can benefit from bespoke strategies, followed by robust engineering solutions that holistically consider risk, operational requirements, the business case for technology investment and the wider architectural vision. By engaging in leading research and development, we navigate and influence industry and the regulatory and statutory landscape.
Our experience and position across digital technology and the construction industry uniquely qualifies us to offer services uncommon to traditional engineering practices. We work directly with clients to uncover benefits that can be realised through the successful deployment of a broad range of technologies. Alongside this, we work with architects, technical specialists, utilities providers, technology providers, contractors, engineers and other stakeholders across all project phases to ensure the building design scheme is capable of meeting the current and future digital needs of its users.
Your next role
This role will see you working on both single and multidisciplinary consultancy projects across a range of sectors, including cities, stadia, culture, workplace, transport, education, residential and more. You'll be supporting the management and delivery of complex projects, contributing to the running of the team, and supporting the development of our discipline and product lines.
Within Buro Happold. you will work closely with our technology experts from across the practice involving specialisms such as digital strategy, experience analysts, smart buildings, smart cities, digital twins, digital infrastructure and data analytics. We are looking for candidates that can work collaboratively and exploit the diverse skills and knowledge which exist in our business. Above all, you'll be passionate about the application of technology in the built environment and have a genuine desire to leverage digital solutions to improve the performance of buildings, cities and organisations to the benefit of their people.
Key Duties
- Assisting job leaders with project delivery on behalf of the technology discipline.
- Consulting with clients, collaborators and stakeholders to capture requirements and probe into the desired outcomes.
- Support development of briefs and strategies, and solution designs taking into account a variety of factors.
- Communicating with clients to support them in developing their aspirations and ideas to help tailor solutions bespoke to each project, that consider up to date technology and harness the benefits of integration with other services and disciplines.
- Understanding and advocating other digital teams within the organisation to develop strategies that support the business aspirations of the client’s development.
- Monitoring yours and others use of project resources; assisting in managing time and resource within your team.
- Mentorship of more junior staff.
- Take an active role in helping to promote the discipline and engage with senior management in supporting the development of corporate strategy.
Your skills & experience
You will be an expert in helping clients embrace and leverage technology in the built environment, adept at applying your skills at city masterplanning through to building fit-outs, working with clients and collaborators at the beginning of their digital transformations through to supervising contractors in delivery of solutions.
Further requirements include:
- Experience in a Technology role focussed on the built environment.
- Experience in development technology infrastructures (e.g., Smart Building Technology, Passive ICT infrastructure, Structured Cabling, Wireless Networks, IoT, etc). from brief through to specification and tender support.
- Previous evidence of end-client interaction.
- Relevant industrial qualifications and a desire to pursue professional registration with a relevant body.
- Expertise in a specific field of information technology is valuable, ideally accompanied by design experience.
What we offer
- Hybrid working arrangements.
- Attractive salary and benefits package including life assurance, private medical cover, and income protection.
- Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements.
- Generous company pension scheme.
- Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts.
- Enhanced parenthood leave policies.
- 3pm finish on the last Friday of the month.
- A strong commitment to your continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you.
- Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions
- A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities.
- A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring.
- An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won’t be far from the exceptional.
A place for everyone
Buro Happold values an individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of how you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.
Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds, and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.
We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment. We are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing differences allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.
Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact recruitment@burohappold.com so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.
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