ID 2981
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• Deliver an effective intelligent client role that challenges and supports the outsourced network services, including strategy, design and performance.
• Have an understanding of all network technology, particularly WAN (wide area network), but also including LAN (local area network), wifi, data centre LAN, SD (software-defined) networks, telephony, mobile solutions infrastructure, unified comms, network management solutions, and network specific security and remote access technologies and approaches.
• Be a point of escalation for network/technical issues arising.
• Be a strategic thinker who can communicate network/technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Actively input into governance forums that determine network/technical strategy.
• Cascade messages, standards and best practice from other supplier architecture teams and design authorities to the network/technical architecture team.
• Act as a subject matter expert for network architecture
• Champion new technologies and solutions
• Coach and mentor Solution Architect line report and associate network/technical teams across wider public sector as appropriate
• Lead a small expert network architect team to provide an intelligent function role on behalf of the Welsh Government and over 100 public sector organisations.
• Challenge and influence the approach to network management, reporting to the Head of Public Sector Connectivity.
• Lead the Welsh Government’s engagement with the supplier’s network, technical and engineering teams.
• Monitor supplier performance against contracted requirements.
• Conduct regular network management meetings with the supplier to review performance.
• Instigate improvement plans where required.
• Assure that network services consumed by public sector organisations under the outsourced network services contract match the operational and business expectations of those organisations.
• Lead responsibility for the technical workstream of the post-2028 project.
• Responsibility for communicating progress through highlight reporting and project dashboards etc. for all technical meetings.
• Review and analyse user feedback to inform future evolution of the services