Job Description

Provide authoritative expertise to enable advanced support, provide strategic guidance and create and apply technical standards for one of Network Rail\'s key strategic IT technology domains.

The Wales & Western region is shifting to a devolved model where products and solutions can be developed locally. The new Digital and Data team consists of a Business System Owner, Azure Technical Lead, Lead Visualisation Manager and Systems Data Analyst. This team sits within the wider Finance directorate along-side Commercial, Legal, Governance Risk & Assurance (GRA), Property, and Business Planning & Analysis (BPA) teams that serve the wider region.

Within the BPA team the Digital & Data team will work closely with long term planning, financial controls & efficiencies, change & improvement, analysis & insights teams to:

• Undertake the support, maintenance and development of digital and data products owned and supported by the Region.
• Work with suppliers to deliver Possession Optimisation, a key priority within the first 12 months that is revolutionising how Engineering Access is planned and delivered through digital and data driven tools.
• Coordinate and build coding components that support regional products ensuring that the safety, data protection requirements and security needs are clearly identified, maintained and assured.
• Develop and support regional upskilling in Digital and Data environments and tools.

This means that this role has wide exposure across the Region\'s teams building relationships with key internal customers, with the primary aim of enhancing performance Digital and Data Products across a range of measures. You will work with your customers and lead product owner to develop, maintain and support digital products and maintain data control to meet their needs within product roadmap and catalogue as well as within the safety requirements of the product. Products will initially be developed within Microsoft Azure and Power Platform, therefore technical expertise in these toolsets is required.

The role will deliver some coaching of Regional colleagues and support developing the Region\'s Digital and Data Strategy.

With a large geographic spread across Wales & Western, there is the opportunity to work with teams all over the Region and travel will be required to attend offices, delivery units and track side to really understand how our diverse teams work to deliver the needs of the railway and how this role will enhance their capability.

All four roles in this new team are being advertised and as such, whilst stated as Bristol, the job location is flexible for hybrid working within the Wales & Western geographic Region.

As part of the interview you will be asked to show and explain the coding and display of products you have created and how they enable business value.

Key Accountabilities: * Maintain a high level of expertise in the supported technology domain, keeping up to date with new developments in the field as well as maintaining a deep knowledge of the existing and Legacy applications of the technology in the NR environment. Ownership of technical-level relationship with the vendor.

• Provide expert-level consultancy and support services to delivery projects utilising the technology domain, ensuring that new solution deliveries successfully integrate and follow domain and NR best practice and standards.
• Influence and guide strategic direction to confirm that NR\'s strategy and policy for the technical specialism prioritises maintainability, supportability and best practice with relation to the technology domain
• Provide expert level technical support to assist Region colleagues who require assistance or solutions for complex business issues related to the supported technology area.
• Highlight, communicate and address future and current risks, opportunities and challenges for NR arising from developments or changes in the technology domain.
• Define, author and maintain Regional operational patterns, standards and best practice for the supported technology domain.

Job Skills, Experience & Qualifications:

Essential

• Extensive experience in an expert-level role supporting and delivering solutions in the supported technology (Microsoft Azure and Power Products)
• Industry recognised high level qualification in the supported technology
• Experience in design, development and support of bespoke solutions in the supported technology
• Demonstrable expertise in and knowledge of current, future and existing developments in the field of the supported technology

Desirable

• Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the supported technology deployments within Network Rail
• Recognised industry contributor to the development of the supported technology domain best practice
• Thorough understanding of consultancy approaches, tools and techniques

Experience of working as an expert authority in the supported technology domain within a large organisation

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How to apply:

Closing date 29th September (we may close the advert before the listed closing date if we receive enough applications), please note this is a 12-month fixed term contract opportunity, with potential to go permanent.

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