Platform Architect - Digital Design Intelligence
DDI Platform Architect
Platforms: Digital Engineering
Our deliver 2025 mission is to become the recognised leader for innovation and excellence in the construction industry, to achieve this will require exceptional Information, technology, and data capabilities to enable all parts of the Laing O'Rourke business.
Are you a platform engineering professional who understands how to build a roadmap for digital applications? Then our Digital Engineering team has the role for you. Working closely with the Platforms integration team to support the Digital Design Intelligence platform for a scalable Azure-based cloud platform. This design data management system sims to improve the quality of construction design / modelling and exploit the value of well-organised data.
Responsibilities include:
Architecture
- Architecture and framework design. Deployment of core components on Azure including; virtual machines, databases and networking.
- Develop guide rails, templates and reuseable frameworks.
- Use infrastructure as Code (Iac) tools for automated provisioning.
Automation & Development
- Implement and automate pre-configured environments.
- Integrate DDI platform automation with CI / CD pipelines with tools like GitHub.
- Create onboarding documents, workflows and user guides.
Security & Compliance
- Promote security best practice within the DDI platform.
- Establish and maintain automated compliance checks.
- Perform security assessments and audits.
Optimisation and Cost Management
- Implement cost management procedures.
- Use performance metrics for user feedback for continuous improvement.
Collaboration and knowledge sharing
- Serve as the DDI platform technical expert.
- Train technical support and developer teams on DDI tools.
- Provide tutorials, workshops and platform documentation.
The position will see you collaborate with several stakeholders which does mean time in the office is a priority. You will need to be able to get into the head office which is based in Dartford, Kent.
About us:
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.
Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.
As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.
We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com
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