Our prestige engineering client is currently recruiting for the following role:

Service Architect Manager - Remote working and Warwickshire - £325/day (Outside IR35) - 6 Months contract (potential to roll)

Role:
The Service Architect Manager is accountable and responsible for working with IT Projects, Service Introduction and other key stakeholders to assess the need for and, where required, produce Service Designs aligned to Service Delivery Strategy and Roadmaps. This role is also responsible for assisting the Senior Service Architect in engaging with IT Strategy and Planning and IT Domains to ensure that key decisions on the future direction of IT Services are sustainable and effective.

Function:
- Responsible for ensuring that new IT Services comply with IT Service Architecture standards, policies and principles (evidenced by artefacts and review cycles);
- Demonstrate strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders through all interactions, evidence of ownership to see outcomes addressing complex or new issues across the service lifecycle e.g. Service Assurance, sourcing, commercial decisions, service improvements;
- Production of appropriate Service Design artefacts for new or changed IT Services e.g. Service Design Pack, Service Acceptance Testing templates, Service Acceptance Criteria templates, Service Maps etc. (evidenced by artefacts and review cycles);
- Ensure that IT Service Designs are delivering the expected Services outcomes and meeting the Service needs of the business (Demonstrate adoption/delivery of Service, Service efficiency, performance and availability).

Responsibility:
Area of Responsibility
- Responsible for assisting in the development and maintenance of IT Service Delivery Architecture Strategy, Policies and Standards. Identify and drive IT Service Delivery alignment to appropriate industry best practice and benchmarking;
- Responsible for contributing to the maintenance and communication of the IT Service Delivery Strategy and Roadmap;
- Responsible for the development of Service Design packages that are appropriate for specific projects that derive new or changed IT Services. These solutions take into consideration the scope of IT Services, delivery model, support requirements, people, Processes, Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and supporting Operational Level Agreements (OLAs);
- Accountable and responsible for defining Service Acceptance Testing (SAT) Policies and Standards;
- Accountable and responsible for ensuring that Service Delivery SAT requirements are integrated into end to end customers IT delivery and change lifecycles;
- Supports and guides Service Providers and projects in their design of new or changed IT Services to ensure alignment with customers Service Architecture standards;
- Accountable for ensuring that a complete set of Service Acceptance Criteria for IT Service Delivery is created and maintained;
- Builds and maintains strong relationships with technical architects to ensure that technology standards and designs align with the Service landscape;
- Engages with IT Strategy and Planning and other senior stakeholders to influence direction for key strategic initiatives and input into early decision making, ensuring that service implications are accounted for;
- Maintains a deep understanding of how all IT Services operate and how the supporting IT Service Delivery elements work together and interact;
- Requires an understanding of the risks and issues associated with the current IT landscape in order to assess and manage the impact of new or changed services being introduced into that landscape;
- Responsible for ensuring that all risks and issues identified through Service Architecture are specified and escalated per the Risk Management process;
- Undertake any other work as directed by their line manager in connection with their job as may be requested.

Experience / Skills Required:
Essential:
- An individual who has significant experience of IT Service Management (ITSM) in a large scale/global context gained at a management level;
- Significant experience working in a Service Architect or Service Design role;
- Significant knowledge of IT Service Design and Architecture across a range of technology types
- Significant technical authoring experience;
- Good understanding of service supply chains and support models
- Operational experience gained in a multi service provider ecosystem;
- Significant breadth of knowledge and experience in IT technology;
- ITIL Foundation qualification.
Desirable:
- Relevant degree or equivalent experience preferred;
- ITIL Expert certification;
- SIAM Foundation qualification;
- Working knowledge of industry trends (Agile, PaaS, SaaS) would be advantageous.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment business.

Our prestige engineering client is currently recruiting for the following role:

Business Systems Analyst - Remote Working / Warwickshire - Up to £300 /Day (Outside IR35) - 6 Months contract (rolling)

Role:
Business Systems Analyst required to engage with cross-functional teams to develop understanding of SW System current states, elicit requirements and information needs, and design desired states and governance framework

Requirements:
Provide business users & stakeholders with an aligned understanding of current & desired state:
- Facilitate mapping & design of current & desired state landscapes with cross-functional teams, and capturing of current state problems and desired state business needs
- Lead workshops with cross-functional teams to develop shared understanding of their business processes & systems; elicit stakeholder information needs (e.g. for visibility & decision making)
- Analyse and develop confirmed understanding of business needs with stakeholders
Ensure desired state needs are decomposed into improvement requirements and allocated to appropriate solution spaces:
- Collaborate with business stakeholders and solution architects to elicit client improvement stories & requirements, derived from business needs
- Collaborate with solution space leads to agree appropriate allocation of requirements to solution spaces
- Establish and maintain traceability of business needs to client improvement stories & requirements and through to solution spaces
- Confirm shared understanding of allocated client improvement stories & requirements with solution space leads
Ensure that business requirements have been met:
- Provide support to User Acceptance Test teams to review acceptance and ensure appropriate coverage of business requirements
Ensure stakeholder information needs are defined, understood and able to be met by Governance solutions:
- Engage with senior leaders to develop understanding and elicit information needs to inform definition of governance & decision making
- Facilitate and guide definition of Goals related to information needs, Derivation of Questions, and Definition of Measures (GQM framework)
- Facilitate and design reporting views to visualise Goal attainment based on Goal-Question-Measure model

Experience / Skills Required:
- Lean Business Analysis and Problem Solving techniques
- Collaborative approaches for understanding current state and designing desired state
- Elicitation & analysis of business needs, improvement definition and business requirements in an Agile environment
- Engaging cross functional stakeholders, and facilitation of workshops
Technical Knowledge:
- Understanding of SW & System development processes (within industry best practice)
Soft Skills:
- Critical thinking;
- Networking and Communication;
- Attention to detail;
- Technical collaboration;
- Stakeholder engagement & alignment
Able to Coach others in:
- Developing an understanding of current state problems & business requirements
- Holistic solution design as part of big-picture desired state, rather than a reliance on localised sub-optimisation

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment business.

Our client who is a Midlands based engineering Tier 1 consultancy is looking for an experienced Lead Design Engineer to support ongoing Automotive development projects.

Position Description:
Working within the Product Development department on projects and programmes for our end client. The Lead Design Engineer will take ownership of Body-in-White design development for a team of design engineers through the full product development lifecycle, being responsible for the delivery of CAD engineering designs to predetermined targets and ensuring appropriate cross functional representation and input from all relevant areas.

Role Responsibility:
- Overall CAD design of automotive body structures.
- Ensuring the engineering design team delivers its objectives and targets (CAE performance, weight etc.)
- Ensuring that programme timing objectives are met
- Communicating team progress to management
- Establishing the team work plan
- Ensuring progress is made by following up actions with their owners.
- Publishing minutes from meetings
- Ensuring design issues are addressed and closed off
- Identifying all risks to the design.

Experience/Skills Required:
- Automotive OEM or engineering consulting background; ideally for both low and high volume vehicle production
- Proven experience in managing a team of CAD engineers to deliver BiW structures
- Understanding and appreciation of a variety of manufacturing processes – aluminium castings, forgings, extrusions, pressings etc.
- Engineering knowledge of defined component(s) / system(s) design, function, performance, production & manufacturing requirements
- Experience in the development of cross platform, carry-over modular solutions would be beneficial
- Successful history of delivery within the automotive product development sector
- CAD Literacy: ability to manipulate and interrogate CAD data and use associated visualisation tools
- Ability to generate CAD data in Catia v5
- Committed, flexible and able to work under pressure as part of a team
- Excellent communication skills for vehicle cross-functional discussions and CAE delivery
- Experience in working with overseas clients/teams would be beneficial
- Experience in developing structural designs for Electric Vehicle considerations would be beneficial
- Willingness to travel to Italy in the support of programme delivery
- PC Literacy: Microsoft Project, Power Point, Excel, Word etc.

Education Required:
- Degree Educated demonstrating significant automotive design experience/training.

Additional Information:
Location will include initial remote working and Warwickshire based office support. As the programme develops it in envisaged that support will also include travel to and from Italy as restrictions ease.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment business.

Our prestige engineering client is currently recruiting for the following role:

Solutions Architect PLM - Remote working and Warwickshire - £450/day (Outside IR35) - 6 Months contract (potential to roll)

Role:
The role of Solutions Architect is essentially to create, guide and influence the technical design, configuration and planning implementation of the automotive client's PLM projects. Where necessary integrating relatively simple and ‘clean’ concepts for each (sub) system or layer to constitute the whole. Create the structure and description of a system. To enable the implementation, understanding, support and further development of a system. The solution architect will specify the architecture, which essentially consists of a set of integrated designs.

Requirements:
The Solutions Architect is responsible for the high-level and low-level design of the system to be implemented. Establish the basic structure of the system, define the essential core design features and elements that provide the framework for all that follows. The Solution architect will provide an IT view of the business vision for what the system needs to be and do, and the paths along which it must be able to evolve, and strives to maintain the integrity of that vision as it evolves during detailed design and implementation.

The successful candidate will offer a proven track record in Solution Architecture (or technical lead) on significant programmes and bids, used to working with internal stakeholders and external clients/suppliers in a technical or business design function. We’re looking for demonstrable expertise developing conceptual, logical and physical architectures and applying architectural principles

Any Enovia, Catia, 3DExperience, TOGAF, depth/breadth of solution areas (applications, business analysis, data, integration and infrastructure), Enterprise Architecture methodologies, cloud-based solutions, Digital Evolution, API Management and Intelligent Automation viewed as advantageous

Responsibility:
Area of Responsibility
- Provide the primary architectural focal point for the project
- Interface with the business sponsors and all other stakeholders.
- Ensure the solution meets project requirements and is aligned to the business direction.
- Provide ownership of technical solutions as well as options with documented impacts and benefits.
- Provide knowledge on modern Applications, Networks, Servers, Storage, and Desktop Infrastructures within complex and challenging environments.
- Define the infrastructure hardware and software requirements
- Prepare and submit detailed documentation on the solution to the IT Design and Service Authority for review and approval
- Collaborate with the project manager to develop detailed project plans.
- Define system requirements, based on the business needs balanced against other constraints such as cost and timing. Ensuring that this set of high level requirements is consistent, complete, correct and operationally defined.
- Actively engage with stakeholders involved in gathering requirements and responses.
- Assist in in converting requirements into a further level of detail for solution proposals and subsequent implementation
- Interpret and map business requirements to solution functionalities
- Assist project delivery teams to understand the detail around implementation and to become involved in that delivery when required

Experience / Skills Required:
- Excellent stakeholder and communication skills
- Experience of Enovia, Catia, 3DExperience
- Experience of multiple domains (Marketing & Sales, Manufacturing, Corporate) beneficial
- Experience in analysis and architecting solutions which includes designing entire solution for an enterprise and distributed applications on various platforms. - Technologies: Client Server / Distributed / Web Based / N-Tier Systems and Applications on following platforms - LINUX, WINTEL, Cloud based ( Google , Azure , Amazon)
- Have experience and Ability to deliver robust end to end solutions, to meet with third party software suppliers, Business Analysts, Project Managers, Application SME’s to discuss and identify architectural changes and propose new changes to existing software and hardware specifications.
- To provide current best practices and alternatives as required as part of the functional design documents.
- Excellent analytical, problem solving, communication and interpersonal skills, with ability to interact with individuals at all levels including stakeholders, business users and also can work as a part of a team as well as independently.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment business.

Our prestige engineering client is currently recruiting for the following role:

Solutions Architect - Remote working and Warwickshire - £450/day (Outside IR35) - 6 Months contract (potential to roll)

Role:
The role of Solutions Architect is essentially to create, guide and influence the technical design, configuration and planning implementation of the automotive client's projects. Where necessary integrating relatively simple and ‘clean’ concepts for each (sub) system or layer to constitute the whole. Create the structure and description of a system. To enable the implementation, understanding, support and further development of a system. The solution architect will specify the architecture, which essentially consists of a set of integrated designs.

Requirements:
The Solutions Architect is responsible for the high-level and low-level design of the system to be implemented. Establish the basic structure of the system, define the essential core design features and elements that provide the framework for all that follows. The Solution architect will provide an IT view of the business vision for what the system needs to be and do, and the paths along which it must be able to evolve, and strives to maintain the integrity of that vision as it evolves during detailed design and implementation.

The successful candidate will offer a proven track record in Solution Architecture (or technical lead) on significant programmes and bids, used to working with internal stakeholders and external clients/suppliers in a technical or business design function. We’re looking for demonstrable expertise developing conceptual, logical and physical architectures and applying architectural principles

Any TOGAF, depth/breadth of solution areas (applications, business analysis, data, integration and infrastructure), Enterprise Architecture methodologies, cloud-based solutions, Digital Evolution, API Management and Intelligent Automation viewed as advantageous

Responsibility:
Area of Responsibility
- Provide the primary architectural focal point for the project
- Interface with the business sponsors and all other stakeholders.
- Ensure the solution meets project requirements and is aligned to the business direction.
- Provide ownership of technical solutions as well as options with documented impacts and benefits.
- Provide knowledge on modern Applications, Networks, Servers, Storage, and Desktop Infrastructures within complex and challenging environments.
- Define the infrastructure hardware and software requirements
- Prepare and submit detailed documentation on the solution to the IT Design and Service Authority for review and approval
- Collaborate with the project manager to develop detailed project plans.
- Define system requirements, based on the business needs balanced against other constraints such as cost and timing. Ensuring that this set of high level requirements is consistent, complete, correct and operationally defined.
- Actively engage with stakeholders involved in gathering requirements and responses.
- Assist in in converting requirements into a further level of detail for solution proposals and subsequent implementation
- Interpret and map business requirements to solution functionalities
- Assist project delivery teams to understand the detail around implementation and to become involved in that delivery when required

Experience / Skills Required:
- Excellent stakeholder and communication skills
- Experience of multiple domains (Marketing & Sales, Manufacturing, Corporate) beneficial
- Experience in analysis and architecting solutions which includes designing entire solution for an enterprise and distributed applications on various platforms. - Technologies: Client Server / Distributed / Web Based / N-Tier Systems and Applications on following platforms - LINUX, WINTEL, Cloud based ( Google , Azure , Amazon)
- Have experience and Ability to deliver robust end to end solutions, to meet with third party software suppliers, Business Analysts, Project Managers, Application SME’s to discuss and identify architectural changes and propose new changes to existing software and hardware specifications.
- To provide current best practices and alternatives as required as part of the functional design documents.
- Excellent analytical, problem solving, communication and interpersonal skills, with ability to interact with individuals at all levels including stakeholders, business users and also can work as a part of a team as well as independently.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment business.