Senior Electrical Designer

We are seeking an experienced and passionate Senior Electrical Designer to join our engineering team. As a Senior Electrical Designer, you will play a critical role in designing, developing, and implementing electrical systems and components for our industry-leading products.

This role requires you to demonstrate an ongoing commitment to improving your communication and leadership capabilities, while also honing your skills and expertise to enhance your technical development. You will identify areas for improvement with regard to processes and operations, and the utilisation of resources to help streamline these.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and implement electrical systems and components for our products, adhering to EN60204-33, EN13849, UL, and CSA standards and experience in CE marking.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration with mechanical, software, and firmware components.
• Produce detailed electrical drawings, schematics, and layouts using industry-standard CAD software.
• Manage the planning of engineering tasks and allocation of resources with the management team and other Lead Engineers. 
• Ensure the delivery of engineering work to deadlines.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to engineering team members, helping to ensure their professional growth and development, including onboarding new staff.
• Ensure the output of the team is in a standard format, and complies with company quality, as well as other regulatory and compliance standards.
• Support other departments by answering queries and requests for information relating to your function.
• Work closely and support the other team members to ensure that a consistent engineering service is provided by the team.
• Lead and drive forward the continuous improvement of your engineering function and the team – maintain the “one team” culture at PT by helping other departments where possible.
• Chair meetings relating to your engineering function and attend cross-functional meetings with other department leads to communicate the progress of the team and set business priorities.

Education / Qualifications:

• Relevant Engineering Degree.
• Chartered Engineer desired but not essential.

Professional Skills/ Abilities:

• Design of precision mechanical/electrical systems and mechanisms. Broad knowledge of manufacturing techniques and materials with an eye for new ways of applying emerging technologies.
• Technical excellence in an engineering discipline (Mechanical/Electrical/Manufacturing/Software) and CAD software, (Solid Edge/AutoCAD preferred)
• Strong organisational and communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and tasks simultaneously.
• Demonstrated solving and making decisions skills
• Professional engineering drawing/design best practice
• Ability to identify opportunities to improve systems and procedures and minimise or eliminate wastage.
• Knowledge of regulatory and standards compliance requirements

At Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology, we provide tools for the engineering of micro- and nano-structures, with customers using our process solutions to research and produce materials and semiconductors vital for everything from medical devices and diagnostics to electric cars and quantum computers.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Architect – Enterprise Identity

Details

• Business area: Identity
• Job level: Subject matter expert
• Location: Home-based
• Reporting to: Practice Lead
• Direct reports (if applicable): N/A

Job Purpose

The key purpose of this role is to contribute towards the success of the Identity Practice & Kocho. Successfully designing and delivering client facing solutions, workshops and services. A key influencer inputting into service improvements and new service offerings. Specifically, responsible for defining, planning and designing architecture of defined client projects, service improvements and any other Kocho offerings. Must take ownership in managing own workload, daily tasks and acting alongside the Project Lead and Consultants as the technical expert to clients. May take on additional responsibilities including Practice development, mentoring, recruitment and designing new service offerings.

Key responsibilities of the role

• Leadership
  • Coordinate with relevant vendors and partners-Product owner of key supplier technology
  • Nurture and enhance Microsoft partnership. -Intended for this position to be key focal point.
  • Provide technical leadership through depth and breadth of knowledge.
  • Provide professional leadership through attention to quality and client satisfaction.
  • Ability to take guidance from Practice Heads and leaders to deliver successful solutions to clients.
  • Ability to work collaboratively with Consultants, Project Managers and Account Managers to enhance Kocho reputation and drive improvements.
  • Support the Practice Head acting as an advisor from a technical perspective.
  • Mentoring or service development may be required as additional responsibilities.
• Technical specialism
  • Expert in Identity and Access Lifecycle and Governance
  • Entra ID, Azure, PIM, PAM, IGA, MIM
  • Keep up to date with technical developments in the industry and advise on business impact.
  • Participate in early adopter engagements with Microsoft and provide constructive feedback.- Microsoft Focal point
  • Self-directive learner of technologies and methodologies to support best practice.
  • Proactive driver of knowledge share across the business.
  • Ability to adapt technical communications to excite and delight the client.
• Business operations
  • Ability to work effectively with internal systems.
  • Effective resource and time management with a commercial approach to work.
  • Take ownership of project deliverables and impact, providing a critical view.
  • Working remotely, on client site or other; applying an agile approach to business and client needs.
• Delivery and KPIs
  • Manage the definition, planning and design of client solutions performing code and design reviews with Consultants.
  • Work closely with clients to define and develop requirements.
  • Work closely with Sales team and Consultants to provide technical components to proposals.
  • Active lead in design, strategy and approach of defined projects and service offerings.
  • Taking ownership in delivering workshops, requirements gathering and presenting solutions.
  • Ability to listen, absorb and act on information
  • Communicate technical solutions in a clear, and concise approach for a variety of audiences from both a technical and business background.
  • Communicate status reports to Project Managers and key stakeholders.
  • Produce well written and professional documentation.
  • Knowledge sharing champion – responding to queries, mentoring, delivering internal & external workshops, briefing papers and actively engage in new developments.
  • Active involvement in the development of new service offerings, procedures, techniques and policies.
  • Always ensuring high quality is evident across all aspects of work.

Skills and experience

1. 1. 1. 1. Essential

• Identity, Access and Governance Management capability
• Highly competent commercial experience in design, planning, defining & delivering Identity Management Solutions.
• Client facing experience
• Strong knowledge & experience of:
  • Entra ID
  • Microsoft365
  • Complex joiners, movers and leavers processes with an impact on identity and access

1. 1. 1. 1. Desirable

• Microsoft Identity Manager
• Microsoft certifications
• Agile project delivery

Personal attributes

Software Developer

Enterprise Migration Platform

Position Overview

Team:       Migration Group

Location:    Remote or Office-based.

UK >> Cardiff

Employment Type:    Full-time, Permanent

Experience Level:    Mid-level to Senior (3+ years)

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and enhance legacy migration platform codebase
• Implement customer-specific customizations and connector modifications
• Develop and maintain connectors for enterprise systems (Exchange, PST, NSF, SourceOne, Enterprise Vault)
• Participate in code reviews and collaborate through GitLab merge requests
• Document code changes and maintain technical documentation
• Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines using TeamCity
• Write unit tests and support QA testing
• Contribute to next-generation platform architecture and development

Requirements

Must-Have

• 3+ years professional experience with C# and .NET Framework. Comfortable with OOP, LINQ, async/await, dependency injection.
• Experience with .NET testing frameworks (xUnit, NUnit, or MSTest). Understanding of unit testing principles, test-driven development, mocking, and writing maintainable test code.
• Basic understanding of web services and communication technologies, including APIs, HTTP, and sockets 
• Demonstrated ability to debug complex issues, read and understand existing codebases, implement solutions independently.
• Proficiency with Git workflows (branching, merging, pull requests, conflict resolution). Experience with GitLab or GitHub.
• Working knowledge of SQL for querying and data manipulation. Experience with SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or similar relational databases.
• Experience with ORMs such as Entity Framework, ORMLite, or Dapper for data access.
• Experience developing on Windows platform using Visual Studio or similar IDEs.
• Strong written and verbal communication. Ability to explain technical concepts clearly and document work effectively.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, manage own time effectively.
• Proven ability to work effectively in small team environments and participate constructively in code reviews.

Nice-to-Have

• Email/Archive Systems: Exchange Server, Office 365, PST files, Enterprise Vault, Commvault, SourceOne, IBM Tivoli
• Data Migration: ETL, data warehousing, replication software, batch processing, data transformation, legacy data extraction, binary/structured file parsing
• Additional Languages: C++, VB.NET, Python, PowerShell
• Testing/Quality Tools: SonarQube, SonarCloud, dotCover, Cucumber, Selenium, SpecFlow, NSubstitute
• DevOps: TeamCity, Docker
• UI Frameworks: Avalonia, Blazor, Angular, WPF, WinForms
• Logging/Profiling: NLog, Serilog, dotTrace, dotMemory
• Other: REST/SOAP API integration, Agile/Scrum experience