Hamilton Barnes 🌳
Principal Consultant – ICT & Security
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About the Role
A leading consultancy within the built environment is seeking a Principal Consultant to join its Buildings & Infrastructure practice within a multidisciplinary Cities & Places environment. This role sits within a small specialist ICT & Security team and works horizontally across multiple sectors including water, transport, cities, defence, and critical infrastructure.
This position combines hands-on technical design leadership with client engagement and commercial responsibility, offering a strong opportunity for progression into more strategic and leadership-focused work.
What’s in it for you:
- Step up from a purely technical ICT/security role into a more client-facing, commercially engaged position.
- Opportunity to influence and deliver complex, secure infrastructure projects across major UK sectors.
- Clear pathway toward leadership, mentoring, and team development responsibilities within a growing specialist practice.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and deliver ICT and security design solutions across building and infrastructure projects from feasibility through to handover (RIBA stages).
- Act as a client-facing lead for ICT/security work, supporting relationship development and project delivery.
- Work across multidisciplinary teams spanning architecture, engineering, and infrastructure disciplines.
- Provide technical oversight for secure communications and building ICT systems.
- Coordinate and integrate security solutions across complex infrastructure environments.
- Mentor and support junior team members, maintaining technical quality and delivery standards.
- Prepare technical reports, specifications, and responses to client briefs and proposals.
- Support delivery across multiple sectors including defence, critical infrastructure, water, and transport (excluding rail preference where possible).
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Skills / Must Have:
- Experience in ICT systems for buildings and infrastructure environments.
- Strong background in telecommunications, building services, or infrastructure engineering design.
- Experience working within secure environments (e.g., defence or critical infrastructure).
- Eligibility for UK Security Clearance (or current/previous SC clearance).
- Strong understanding of integrated building ICT and security systems.
- Experience coordinating multidisciplinary design teams.
- Ability to produce technical documentation (reports, specifications, design outputs).
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Knowledge of systems such as:
- Data communications and networking systems.
- Secure/non-secure communications systems.
- Structured cabling and telecoms infrastructure.
- CCTV and video surveillance systems.
- Access control and intruder detection systems.
- Perimeter and physical security systems (including barriers, fencing, HVM considerations).
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Degree qualified (or equivalent experience) in a relevant discipline.
- Professional membership or working towards (e.g., engineering/security-related institution) desirable.
Benefits:
- Hybrid working model (typically 2–3 days office-based, flexible arrangements available).
- Locations available across London, Manchester, Birmingham, and Bristol.
- Strong emphasis on work-life balance and flexible working patterns.
- Opportunity to work on high-security, nationally significant infrastructure projects.
- Structured career progression into senior leadership and commercial roles.
- Support for professional development and memberships.
- Inclusive and collaborative multidisciplinary working environment.
Salary:
£80,000 – £100,000 per annum (depending on experience)
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