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Working in Tech, Product or Data at Sky is about building the next and the new. From broadband to broadcast, streaming to mobile, SkyQ to Sky Glass, we never stand still. We optimise and innovate.

We turn big ideas into the products, content and services millions of people love.

And we do it all right here at Sky.

You'll be reporting to the Head of Origination and Distribution Engineering in Content, Technology & Innovation. You will be responsible for a number of key aspects related to lifecycle and reliability of broadcast services leveraging the capabilities in Origination and Distribution.

The Architecture and Design Manager plays a critical leadership role within our broadcast technology organization, steering the visionary Architecture and Design Team as they define the technological foundation and strategic development of our broadcast television solutions. This role involves overseeing the creation of system architectures and design principles that ensure scalability, resilience, and suitability for the complex demands of modern broadcasting.

What you'll do:

As the Architecture and Design Manager, you'll spearhead efforts in deep analysis and innovation in system design, advocating for the integration of cutting-edge technologies and best practices. Your leadership is crucial in crafting architectures that enhance orchestration, automation, and control across our software and hardware solutions, laying down a clear architectural roadmap to guide product development and ensure alignment with evolving industry trends and technological advancements.

In this pivotal position, you will foster robust collaboration between the various Engineering Teams, translating high-level architectural strategies into practical, actionable solutions. You will provide essential guidance and oversight, ensuring the software development lifecycle adheres to the established architectural standards.

A key part of the role will also involve risk management and technology selection, where they assess potential challenges and opportunities impacting system scalability, performance, and security. They are responsible for defining and tracking KPIs and OKRs that measure and drive the team's impact on product quality and innovation.

• You'll be responsible for the Business and Solution Architecture roadmaps owning the "what dimension" of the platforms delivery leading a team of Solution Architects and Solution designers joining the delivery squads to deploy the designed architectures and services
• Lead and manage a domain architectures teams ensuring we build a high-performing team of architects and designers to become a strong company-wide recognised practice of trusted technologists allowing the business to efficiently scale and innovate to be successful.
• Design an architecture strategy and roadmap to deliver scalable, flexible, simple to extend and resilient event-driven and API-bases architectures defining the integration patterns, services, data models and the business rules to implement solutions able to evolve and react to the new business needs or, better, being proactively an enabler for the business.
• Lead the choices of components/packages being part of the domain continuously reviewing the industry trends and working with key vendors to ensure to provide industry-leading solutions and platform features
• Be part of the O&D leadership team and representing the department across the Group architectural boards and authorities caring the relationships with the other architectural teams
• Collaborate with the Product Owners, the business and tech stakeholders to define the business and operational capabilities , processes and data-driven automated workflows allowing us to efficiently deliver our one Platform vision, an essential enabler for the current and future Sky needs, through a value stream approach

What you'll bring:

• Significant experience on Media/telco IT solution design including mission-critical 24/7 systems and integrations developments in complex/international environments.
• Preferred experiences on Broadcasting domain like TV Contribution, Origination and Content processing distribution solutions
• Knowledge on technologies, tools and methodologies for the SW solution design (API first event driven design, data driven automation, data streams, system integration patterns, microservices architectures, cloud solutions)
• Experience with public cloud platforms such as AWS and GCP to implement large-scale solutions based on microservices and serverless architectures of distributed services .
• Proven skills on DB modelling and technologies (RDBMS, NoSQL DBs, Cloud native DBs)
• Deep expertise of media codecs, video, and audio packaging technologies, encryption and DRM systems and supply chain processes and orchestration
• Business processes analysis, Agile and DevOps methodologies (Scrum, SAFE,…) experience
• Attitude to problem solving and a work style driven by objectives, market awareness, knowledge sharing, collaboration and accountability with a passion for technical excellence, business value and the customer satisfaction
• Strong collaborative leadership, communications and active listening skills to engage people on the transformation of our Platforms
• Very good level of English both spoken and written
• Available to travel in and outside Europe

Team overview:

CONTENT TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION

Our Content Technology and Innovation team delivers high-quality content to homes, customer devices, businesses and commercial partners across our European markets. With over 2500 colleagues from around the world, we combine our strategic insights, engineering know-how and operational excellence to use the most innovative technologies to create and distribute our award-winning content.

The rewards

There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to #LifeAtSky: the perks. Here's a taster:

• Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
• The magic of Sky Glass at an exclusive rate
• A generous pension package
• Private healthcare
• Discounted mobile and broadband
• A wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences

Inclusion & how you'll work:

Recognised by The Times and Stonewall, we take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion. Investing in society, fighting racial injustice and setting ambitious targets for representation at Sky.

We've embraced hybrid working and split our time between unique office spaces and the convenience of working from home. You'll find out more about what hybrid working looks like for your role later on in the recruitment process.

Your office space:

Osterley

Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There are also plenty of bike shelters and showers.

On campus, you'll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed, and even get pampered at our beauty salon.

We'd love to hear from you

Inventive, forward-thinking minds come together to work in Tech, Product and Data at Sky. It's a place where you can explore what if, how far, and what next.

But better doesn't stop at what we do, it's how we do it, too. We embrace each other's differences. We support our community and contribute to a sustainable future for our business and the planet.

If you believe in better, we'll back you all the way.

Just so you know: if your application is successful, we'll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.

• Serves as the senior engineer in the Engineering Division and as the technical advisor to Directorate of Public Works (DPW).
• Responsible for performing technical, administrative, managerial, and professional work related to contract administration, quality assurance, facility repairs, energy conservation management and oversight, and facility operations and maintenance.
• Provides engineering support for a wide range of garrison projects, including design and review, construction field representation, project development and management, and contracting support.
• Administers, manages, directs, and supports the Contracting Officers Representative (COR) for the multimillion-dollar Base Operations (BASOPS) Maintenance Contract of the Division.
• Represents the requirements and priorities of the operations and maintenance functional area in overall Public Works planning and programming.

JOB TITLE: Data Solution Architect

SALARY: £86,964 - £102,310

LOCATION(S): Halifax

HOURS: [Full-time]

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our Halifax Office.

About this opportunity…

Lloyds Banking Group is the largest provider of mortgages in the UK, with over 2 million active mortgages. We have placed mortgages at the heart of our strategy to become the best bank for customers. Our team in the Homes Platform is passionate about creating new services for our customers that transform the customer and colleague experience. Our culture brings together smart, hardworking people from diverse backgrounds who enjoy a collaborative and innovative environment that supports flexible and agile working.

We are creating a new strategic data capability to unlock significant business opportunities, supporting our objectives to create personalised data driven customer experience and insight driven business decisioning. As a Data Solution Architect, you'll contribute across key aspects of delivery from initiation through design and into delivery and beyond. You'll be a design authority for a lab or group of products and possess expert knowledge of multiple applications, technologies, and business processes across several platform domains.

About us…

Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We're growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too…

What you'll do…

• Working as part of an Agile team of architects and engineers, you will cultivate collaboration through your extensive expertise and influence.

• Using data technology expertise, you will be able to identity opportunities to unlock its value to the business

• Deliver the best technical solutions for complex or significant business needs, where no precedent may exist.

• Ensure compliance with the Bank's IT architecture design and all regulatory, mandatory, and statutory requirements, protecting the Bank at all times.

• Run and chair technical design meetings to achieve purposeful outcomes, active involvement in architecture and design governance.

• Contribute to the financial investment process to obtain funding for key solution opportunities.

• Participate in risk management, using it to influence change planning and delivery.

Here's Where You'll Make a Difference…

Your contribution will influence our strategy to enable data to be a core part of our business capability This is a key role at the financial heart of the Group, underpinning the long-term sustainability and integrity of the organization.

What We Need from You…

We need a Data Solution Architect who understands the challenges of modern software development and exploiting data in a complex enterprise. You will build a compelling and powerful image of where we're heading from a data architecture and design perspective. You will understand technology implications for people and processes and will bring this to your holistic view of design. Ideally, you will have previous career experience in software engineering or solution architecture and will be well-placed to define and sell your vision to engineers, architects, and product owners alike.

What you'll bring…

• Excellent knowledge of the data technology of complex enterprise systems, modern cloud-hosted data solutions, integration patterns, DevOps, and data and event stream technologies and broad experience with in-house and vendor-written applications.

• Ability to support negotiations to gain agreement from senior stakeholders, seeing the big picture and translating business priorities into technical solutions

• Experience working on multiple products simultaneously and understanding the relationships between them.

• Understanding of risk management concepts and how to factor this into work prioritization models.

• Strong understanding of and experience with enterprise architecture principles and data strategy.

• Experience with risk, infrastructure, resilience, and security architecture practices and concerns.

• Able to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences, from end-users to senior stakeholders.

About working for us…

Our focus is to ensure we are inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity, or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it is why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We are disability confident. So, if you would like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares.

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.

• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow, and thrive? Apply today and find out more.

Join our journey.

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Principal Highways Design Engineer (Civil Engineering)

Birmingham - Hybrid

Up to £60K DOE + Bonus

GiPro is delighted to be working exclusively with one of the most recognised engineering consultancy in the UK who are experts within the Transport Planning and Highways Design space. Due to their rapid growth, they are now on the lookout for an experienced Principal Highways Design Engineer. This role is based at their new state-of-the-art Birmingham office and you'd have the opportunity to play a key part in the development of the office and building your dream team - the opportunities are endless.

Please note that this is a role within Civil Engineering.

The role:

• Ensure designs are delivered within programme and within the budget provided;
• Manage resource allocations to ensure team members are fully utilised on the highest priority tasks;
• Prepare and manage project budgets, ensuring cost control and financial accountability, and monitor and track project expenditures against said budget;
• Act as the primary point of contact for clients, stakeholders, and other project partners;
• Manage stakeholder expectations and ensure effective communication throughout the project lifecycle;
• Ensure that all designs are prepared in accordance with MCHW, DMRB and/or local design guidance, and that the requirements of all relevant Authorities and Statutory bodies are incorporated into designs, as appropriate;
• Undertake and check / authorise design information and reports providing effective feedback;
• Work with Milestone's Senior Management Team to assist with projects from other offices and disciplines;
• Encourage innovation and continuous improvement within the team and displaying sound independent judgement, and;
• Comply with relevant Health & Safety legislation, particularly the CDM Regulations and adopting a pro-active risk management / mitigation approach.

About you:

• Pro-active management skills with confidence to manage teams in accordance with a growing and varied workload
• Highways and drainage experience, using AutoCAD, Civil 3D, and Microdrainage.
• Ideally have a good understanding of Flood Risk Assessments and various section agreements including S278, S38, S104 and S106.
• Great resource management skills ensuring projects are resourced with the most effective staff
• Strong technical skills and experience in a range of highway design environments
• Proven project management of highway projects and delivery to programme and budget
• Display sound independent judgment
• Experience with developing, mentoring and supervision of Highway Design staff
• Robust working knowledge of Highways Technical documents within the DMRB

On Offer:

• Salary up to £60K DOE
• Company Pension
• Annual and on the spot bonuses
• Profit Share Bonus
• Healthcare Cash Plan
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme

For more information on this unique opportunity, please contact Martin Pavlov and he would be delighted to assist you with your application.

Should you require any support or assistance, please contact your local Gi Group office.

Gi Group Holdings Recruitment Limited are proud founding members of Menopause in business, pledge members for Neurodiversity in business, Disability committed members, Silver status pledge members for the Armed Forces Covenant, and Bronze trail blazers for Racial Equality matters.

Gi Group Holdings Recruitment Limited group of companies includes Gi Recruitment Limited, Draefern Limited, Gi Group Recruitment Ltd, INTOO (UK) Limited, Marks Sattin (UK) Limited, TACK TMI UK Limited, Grafton Professional Staffing Limited, Encore Personnel Services, Gi Group Ireland Limited and Kelly Services (UK) Ltd. Gi Group Ireland Limited are acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this role.

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Salary: MPR/UPR + well-being cash plan + pension scheme (TPS) + additional Lift Schools benefits

Hours: Full-time, part-time and flexible working opportunities will be considered.

Contract type: Permanent

Start date: January 2025 or earlier

How will you inspire creativity?

Are you a passionate and innovative Art Teacher ready to make a lasting impact? At Greenwood Academy, we are dedicated to providing exceptional education to every child-every classroom, every day. We invite you to be part of our artistic journey!

Together, we can achieve great things

Join our enthusiastic team of educators who share your commitment to shaping the creative minds of young artists. Here, you'll collaborate with inspiring colleagues who are equally dedicated to nurturing a love for art and expression.

In your school

At Greenwood Academy, you'll receive unwavering support and access to top-notch expertise in curriculum and assessment. We tailor our assistance to meet the unique needs of our school, always ready to provide guidance and resources when challenges arise. With our operational support, you can focus on what truly matters - your students and their growth.

In your career

We understand the importance of career development. With us, you can carve out your own leadership path and achieve success at every stage of your journey. Our wealth of experience in education ensures that you'll have exceptional advice and support to enhance your skills every day.

Across the country

As part of a vibrant network, our educators have the power to create meaningful change in every aspect of school life, on a national scale. Our Art Teachers don't just teach - they lead the way in redefining art education for future generations.

Let's make a difference together!

If you're an enthusiastic Art Teacher with a passion for inspiring creativity and a proven track record in teaching, we want to hear from you! Join us at Greenwood Academy and help us spark something incredible in the world of art!

Closing date: 30th November 2024

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application.

Lift Schools are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our people and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.

Lift Schools embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. Job share, part-time and flexible working opportunities will be considered.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and there is a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

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