Senior Technical Consultant - Daily Rate TLNT_NI

Position: Senior Technical Consultant - Daily Rate Contract TLNT1_NI
Senior Technical Consultant - Daily Rate Contract Belfast | Hybrid - 3 days onsite / 2 days WFH 550-750 per day | Inside IR35 Initial 3-month contract | Potential extension | ASAP start We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Technical Consultant to provide technical assurance and advisory support across a varied portfolio of enterprise technology projects. This is an individual contributor role with no team management responsibility, and it is not a hands-on engineering, development or support position.

Instead, you'll work alongside Project Managers, PMO, technical teams and third-party suppliers, using your breadth of technology experience to challenge designs, identify risks, ask the right questions and ensure solutions are secure, supportable and technically sound. The role As Senior Technical Consultant, you'll act as a trusted technical adviser across a portfolio of technology projects, including upgrades, migrations, SaaS implementations, enterprise applications and wider technology change.

You'll bring the technical experience and judgement needed to help project teams avoid pitfalls, make informed decisions and address the right technical considerations throughout delivery. Your responsibilities will include:
Providing technical assurance and oversight throughout the project lifecycle. Acting as a trusted technical adviser to Project Managers and PMO. Reviewing and challenging technical designs and third-party proposals. Asking the right questions of technical teams, MSPs and external suppliers. Identifying technical risks, dependencies and potential delivery issues early. Ensuring solutions align with architecture, security and technical standards. Producing, reviewing and contributing to technical documentation, including high-level designs.

Ensuring appropriate documentation, governance and change processes are followed. Considering security, resilience, disaster recovery, integration, support and operational requirements. Ensuring solutions can be successfully transitioned into BAU/live operations. Providing pragmatic technical direction without becoming responsible for hands-on configuration. Helping projects maintain momentum without compromising technical quality. A particular focus of the role will be technical oversight, supplier engagement, architecture standards and the successful transition of solutions into live operations.

What we're looking for You'll be a seasoned technology professional with significant breadth of experience across enterprise IT. You may have started your career in infrastructure, applications, engineering or technical support before progressing into roles such as Technical Lead, Technical Architect, Solutions Architect, Technical SME or technical project delivery. We're not looking for a specialist in one particular technology. We're looking for someone who has worked across enough technologies, systems and projects to understand what good technical delivery looks like - and, importantly, to recognise when something doesn't look right.

You'll ideally have knowledge across several (not all) of the following:
Enterprise infrastructure and platforms Windows, Linux and/or Unix Cloud and SaaS Microsoft 365 Networking Identity and access management APIs and integrations SQL and database technologies Enterprise/business applications Disaster recovery and backup Cyber and information security Breadth is more important than deep specialism in any single technology. Your project experience You'll need strong experience delivering or supporting significant technology projects within complex organisations.

This could include:
Enterprise system implementations Migrations and major upgrades SaaS adoption Infrastructure transformation…