Anticipated Contract End Date/Length: December 31, 2026
Work set up: Hybrid, 2–3 days on site per week
Our client in the Information Technology and Services industry is looking for a Technical SME (Google and Slack) to support a large-scale, multi-year transformation programme focused on modernising collaboration tools, ensuring platform resilience, and enabling strategic carve out scenarios across the organisation. This role sits at the intersection of technology architecture, collaboration tooling strategy, and programme delivery, ensuring the organisation maintains a secure, compliant, and scalable posture while transitioning or integrating collaboration platforms. The SME will play a critical role in shaping, evaluating, and governing technical solutions related to Google Workspace, Slack, and associated integration ecosystems.
What you will do:
- Serve as the primary SME for all matters related to Google Workspace, Slack, and cross-platform integrations including identity, security, messaging, and workflow automation.
- Provide technical direction on platform assessments, migrations, coexistence architectures, and operational design.
- Define future-state collaboration architecture aligned to transformation programme objectives and enterprise standards.
- Lead discovery workshops with business stakeholders, engineering teams, security, and risk partners.
- Analyse existing end-user collaboration landscapes, identify gaps, and assess platform readiness for transformation or separation scenarios.
- Translate business needs into clear, actionable technical requirements and architectural artefacts.
- Define integration patterns between Slack, Google Workspace, and core systems such as IAM, DLP, monitoring, and workflow tools.
- Guide the design of Slack Enterprise Grid configurations, Google Workspace sharing controls and governance, identity and access management integrations, and API-based automation or workflow integration.
- Support data residency, compliance, and retention requirements during migration or carve out activities.
- Ensure all solutions meet security, regulatory, and audit requirements.
- Provide design assurance through governance forums and architectural review boards.
- Identify platform risks early and propose mitigation strategies aligned to programme timelines.
- Act as a bridge between enterprise architecture, delivery teams, business stakeholders, and third-party vendors.
- Support delivery leads in sequencing platform activities as part of the broader transformation roadmap.
- Contribute to programme-level documentation, dependency tracking, and risk and issue management relating to collaboration platforms.