Technical Design Manager

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 10 January 2026
LOCATION
Horsham
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
CATEGORY
Information Technology
This employer holds a UK Home Office sponsor license — sponsorship for this specific role is at the employer’s discretion

SKILLS

Solution Architecture Systems Engineering Stakeholder Management Technical Leadership Benefits Realisation Lifecycle Design

FULL DESCRIPTION

Technical Design Manager

We’re looking for a Technical Design Manager to lead and elevate our technical design capability. In this critical role, you’ll oversee a talented team of Solution Architects, Solution Engineers, and Solution Design Analysts, ensuring we translate complex business requirements into robust, scalable technology solutions.

In this critical role, you’ll oversee a talented team of Solution Architects, Solution Engineers, and Solution Design Analysts, ensuring we translate complex business requirements into robust, scalable technology solutions. You’ll work at the intersection of strategy, innovation, and delivery - collaborating closely with internal stakeholders, senior leaders, and external partners to design and deliver impactful, technology-driven outcomes that align with our business goals.

- Lead and manage the technical design team, ensuring high-quality output and professional growth. - Engage with business analysts, end-users, and senior stakeholders to understand challenges and gather technical requirements. - Research, evaluate, and propose end-to-end technology solutions that align with organisational needs and strategic objectives. - Develop and refine technical architectures and designs, ensuring they are scalable, secure, and aligned with enterprise standards. - Oversee the transition of proposed solutions into operational services, providing hands-on support and guidance throughout. - Drive benefits realisation planning, identify interdependencies, and support cost estimation and planning activities.

In return for your hard work we offer additional training and development, 26 days holiday (+ bank holidays), generous pension contribution, life assurance and much more.  We are committed to working towards a lower carbon society, focusing on sustainable and innovative methods to exceed our partners' goals and add value for all stakeholders – and we were named the top-ranked FM service provider in the Sustainable FM Index for 2020. We put our people first. Always working as a team and collaborating from start to finish. We are the trusted expert in the built environment because we listen to our team and create a workplace that maximises their potential. Fairness, Inclusion and Respect (FIR) at VCML is about recognising and celebrating each other’s differences and what they bring to the team. Harnessing this diversity and applying the experiences, abilities and unique qualities of individuals will enhance our business; therefore, we commit to equity of opportunity and fair treatment of all current and potential employees and encourage job applications from all. Should you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the application process please contact us directly. VCML recognises the importance of helping our employees balance their work and home life by offering flexible working arrangements across many of our roles which include working from home to enable employees to balance their working life with other priorities.

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