Job Description
Technical Project Coordinator
Location: Knutsford Onsite
Salary: £35,000 - 40,000 + excellent benefits package
Contract: Permanent
A large, highly successful organisation is seeking a Technical Project Coordinator to join its Infrastructure team.
This role is ideal for someone with a strong IT technical background who enjoys coordinating supplier-led technology projects across IT infrastructure, cloud, and security environments.
You will act as the technical representative during project delivery, working closely with third-party suppliers and internal stakeholders to ensure solutions are well designed, aligned to standards, and delivered successfully through to operational handover.
About The Role:
As Technical Project Coordinator, you will be responsible for planning and coordinating the delivery of IT technical solutions primarily delivered by external suppliers.
You will actively participate in solution design discussions, review and challenge technical documentation, and ensure projects are delivered to agreed timelines, quality standards, and architectural principles.
This role requires sufficient technical depth to confidently engage in design conversations, while suppliers are responsible for build and configuration activities.
Key Responsibilities:
- Coordinate end-to-end project plans, schedules, and dependencies
- Act as the technical point of contact for supplier-led delivery
- Collaborate with suppliers and internal stakeholders on solution design
- Review and challenge supplier designs and technical documentation
- Ensure solutions align with internal architecture, security, and operational standards
- Facilitate design workshops, project meetings, and technical discussions
- Manage project risks, issues, and changes (RAID)
- Maintain accurate project documentation and reporting
- Coordinate transition from project delivery into operational support
- Keep dashboards, task boards, and project reporting up to date
Essential Skills and Experience:
- Background in IT infrastructure, cloud, or technical project coordination
- Experience contributing to solution design alongside third-party suppliers
- Ability to participate confidently in technical discussions
- Working knowledge of hybrid infrastructure and cloud platforms
- Strong communication, coordination, and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to work autonomously in a complex, multi-supplier environment
Desirable Skills and Experience:
- Experience with Microsoft technologies such as Microsoft 365, Entra ID, and Azure (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, hybrid architectures)
- Understanding of infrastructure concepts including identity, networking, storage, backup, and resilience
- Awareness of IT security principles and secure-by-design practices
- Experience working within architectural governance or design approval frameworks
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