Solutions Engineer

• This role is customer-facing and focuses on client delivery, playing a crucial part in aiding customers to integrate AI into their organisations.
• As an AI Solutions Consultant, you will have the opportunity to develop innovative AI solutions tailored to the specific needs of clients, ensuring that they derive maximum value from Microsoft's cutting-edge technologies.
• Key responsibilities include:

AI Solutions Consultant

Consultant

• Contract Role - (Hybrid) will be required to travel to client site and must hold valid UK Security Clearance.
• Role – 3-6 Month Contract
• Reports to: Head of Modern Work & Security
• The consultant will be responsible for the design, setup, and initial build of a SharePoint Server Subscription Edition and Project Server Subscription Edition (PSSE) environments to support customer organisation’s migration away from Microsoft Project Online.
• The role will focus on:
• - Technical architecture design and environment implementation
• - Supporting customer conversations and potentially implementation for related infrastructure requirements, such as Power BI Gateway, Power Automate Data Gateway.
• - Core Project Server and PWA configuration aligned to agreed business requirements
• The consultant will work closely with internal IT, security, and PMO stakeholders and will be expected to produce robust technical documentation to support long-term operational ownership.
• Architecture Design:
• · Design a PSSE target architecture, aligned to:
• · Organisational security and compliance standards
• · Performance and availability requirements
• · Expected user volumes and workload
• Define:
• · SharePoint Server Subscription Edition farm topology
• · Project Server service architecture
• · SQL Server architecture (including HA/DR considerations)
• · Produce a documented architecture design for approval.
• · Support conversations around virtualisation of infrastructure within the customer environment, including virtual servers and Azure SQL
• Support or lead installation and configuration of:
• · SharePoint Server Subscription Edition
• · Project Server Subscription Edition
• · Required service applications
• · Environment rollover post-migrations
• Configure:
• · Authentication (Active Directory / hybrid identity as applicable)
• · Service accounts and permissions
• · SSL and certificate management
• Validate environment readiness for PWA deployment.
• Define:
• · Backup and restore strategy
• · Patch and update approach
• · Monitoring and operational considerations
• Produce:
• · Environment build documentation
• · Admin and operational handover artefacts
• Provide technical assurance and recommendations ahead of Build/Config phase.
• At a minimum, the consultant will provide:
• - Approved PSSE architecture design document
• - Fully deployed and operational PSSE environment
• - Technical build and configuration documentation
• · Operational and support handover pack
• Create and configure one or more PWA instances
• Rebuild core Project Server configuration including:
• Advising on functional differences between Project Online and PSSE and propose pragmatic alternatives where required.
• Configure reporting endpoints (OData, SQL, Excel/Power BI connectivity)

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AI Solutions Consultant

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