The cities and places of tomorrow are being designed today. At Buro Happold, our Digital Advisory team is at the forefront of this revolution. Ready to play a role in this vision?
We are looking for a Solution Architect with experience at the intersection of OT and IT to play a key role delivering bleeding-edge smart places projects in the UK and overseas.
Your next role
Buro Happold’s Digital Advisory team focuses on delivering technology and information transformation to clients to enhance their financial, environmental, and social performance (the triple-bottom-line, across people, planet and places).
Our projects vary considerably; from defining the smart city technologies that will transform the resident, worker, or visitor experience of a bleeding edge city in the middle east, to developing a sophisticated data-driven 3D twin of a university campus to determine the most effective route to net zero carbon, to outlining how technology can add significant revenue streams across football clubs in the UK, to defining the team, processes and policies required for our clients to manage data quickly and securely. However, all our projects have engineering or ‘real-world’ asset expertise at their core and it is that, with our relentless focus on the triple-bottom-line, that makes us unique.
The team works across a range of consulting areas covering digital strategy and transformation, digital systems and solutions and data and analytics. We are looking for consultants who want to collaborate with other offices, our experts in design, and technologists internally and externally to make a real-world difference.
Our market-leading capability has resulted in the UK Digital Advisory team more than doubling in size over the last year with a strong growth plan and pipeline to continue this trajectory.
Key Duties
- Lead day-to-day delivery of client engagements structuring and managing the workstreams and supervising delivery
- Manage (plan-do-review) workstreams across areas such as digital strategy or digital transformation for some of the world's most iconic projects and clients, owning the day-to-day client relationship as well as the team’s performance and wellbeing – a critical role within the team.
- Develop and manage workstreams to deliver the client brief and /or outcome agreed in proposal.
- Define end-to-end smart place architectures, integrating IoT, digital twins, data paltforms, building systems and cloud services.
- Translate client needs into robust technical designs, roadmaps and functional specifications.
- Develop solution concepts, reference architectures and integration patterns for smart buildings, districts and campuses.
- Lead technical discovery, requirements gathering and stakeholder workshops.
- Ensure solutions align with relevant standards, cybersecurity principles and data governance best practices.
- Oversee technical delivery, including vendor evaluation, design reviews, interface specifications and system integration.
- Support and manage project team and workstream team to achieve project and personal objectives.
- Support business development of digital strategy and transformation projects primarily by building upon existing engagements that you are leading delivery on.
- Proactively seek ways to review and improve our capability - methodology, tools, templates, and training.
- Provide support to wider team development through coaching and mentoring of team members where appropriate.
- Act as 1st line of defence / review / assurance for project deliverables.
Your skills & experience
Essential
- Digital architecture, design, strategy, transformation or system integration related to Smart Places (cities, buildings, campuses, et al).
- Experience with and passion for technology in the urban environment, specifically within sport stadia & venues and/or smart cities or districts is significantly desirable.
- Experience designing interoperable systems across IT/OT layers, including applications and middleware, either as a solution architect or a lead designer.
- Knowledge of IoT platforms, cloud services, sensor technologies, edge computing and data architecture.
- Experience leading consulting engagements with strong client management skills
- Ability to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Strong proficiency in Excel and Powerpoint with good presentation skills.
- Relevant digital or business (CA, ACA, MBA) professional qualification would be beneficial.
Desirable
- Familiarity with Digital Twins, real-time data platforms, analytics and automation
- Understanding of cybersecurity, networking and ICT infrastructure
What we offer:
- Attractive benefits package including, pension, private medical insurance (family), life assurance and income protection.
- Car allowance – 10% of basic salary.
- Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts.
- Enhanced parenthood leave policies.
- 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.
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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