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Are you eager to land a brand new role? Our client, a busy local authority in Harrow. Are looking for a Platform Specialist to join their organisation.

Job Role: Platform Specialist
Temporary or Permanent: Temp
Possible End Date: Until December 2025 (possible extension)
Number of Positions: 1 position
Location: Harrow
Office Based/Hybrid: Hybrid
Rate of Pay: £32 p/h umbrella inside IR35
Pay Negotiable: Yes

Purpose:
The Platform Specialist role is to ensure the day to day running of the Council production servers, operating system, cloud environments, Office 365 collaboration applications, SAAS applications, Council’s network, backups and internet security infrastructure while ensuring high levels of systems availability.

The post holder will act as a subject matter expert in their expertise area and provide advice to other ICT team members, participate in technology strategic activities, help in formulating technology roadmaps and create a good governance structure to ensure Councils investment on technologies are fully utilised.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the Technical Support team on a day to day basis (including agency and contract staff), task allocation, resource planning and monitoring staff work by providing technical advice and mentoring. The post holder is also expected to ensure that the calls escalation from other ICT Support Teams are handled in a professional manner by ensuring end users are kept up to date on the progress of the call and the call is completed in a prompt and efficient manner.
• This postholder will have an influence over £4m on day to day operational contracts and another £4m over Capital projects. This sum may vary over time depending on the transformation agenda of the organisation.
• Assist in managing major multi-million-pound supplier contracts ensure suppliers obligations are fully met.
• Monitor and influence capital project budgets to a value of up to £4 million per annum.
• Monitor and influence revenue expenditure on Microsoft cloud platforms (excluding staff) of approximately £2 million per annum
• Monitor and influence revenue expenditure with outsourced partners (LAN/WAN, Applications Management, Azure platform support) of approximately £1.5 million per annum.

Job Requirements:

• Previous experience working within a local authority or a similar organisation.
• At least 2 years experience within a Platform Specialist role or equivalent.

Please be advised that only candidates that have the specific skills and experiences required for this role will be shortlisted and submitted to our client for review. 

How to Apply:

If you are interested in applying, please press the button below, send your CV to tareeq.smith@temptingrecruitment.co.uk or contact Tareeq on 020 3854 4911 to discuss further.

To explore other exciting opportunities or learn more about our recruitment process, please visit our website https://www.temptingrecruitment

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