BMC Helix Discovery Engineer

Job Title: Discovery Engineer - Architecture & Flow Management

Industry: Banking / Financial Services (Corporate & Institutional Banking)

Location: London (50% onsite)

Contract: 6 months initial, with a view to extend

Rate: Competitive | Inside IR35

About the Role

Our client, a leading global investment bank, is looking for an experienced engineer to manage the architecture, network flows, and rationalisation of their global BMC Helix Discovery deployment.

Main Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and network flow management project activities, reporting progress to the Discovery team manager
• Perform recurring platform health checks and use results to shape new project work
• Collaborate with the wider team on architecture direction, enhancements, and fixes
• Build and maintain key stakeholder relationships to deliver project outcomes
• Understand external (non-BMC) tools and processes critical to project delivery
• Provide clear, weekly progress updates across multiple concurrent project streams
• Improve and redefine process activities where applicable
• Implement automation to improve efficiency and delivery time
• Research new technologies to enhance the discovery service
• Provide L2/L3 support for incidents, changes, and requests

Approx. 80% project-focused, 20% BAU.

Essential Experience

• Experience within a BMC Discovery environment (consultant, contractor, or permanent)
• Excellent understanding of BMC Discovery at architectural and configurational level
• Certifications desirable but not critical - strong field experience matters more

Role-Specific Technical Skills & Knowledge

• Expert knowledge of BMC Discovery (formerly ADDM) - deployment, architecture, configuration best practice, and rationalisation principles
• Communication & access protocols: SSH, HTTPS, DCOM, REST API
• BMC Discovery connection protocols: UNIX Shell, WMI, PowerShell
• Strong understanding of BMC Discovery pattern language (TPL)
• Strong understanding of the BMC Discovery data model & query language
• Administrative knowledge of Linux, Windows, virtualisation, databases, networking & directory services

Desirable Technical Skills & Knowledge

• Python
• DevOps - Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Ansible Tower
• Virtualisation - VMware
• OpenStack
• Generic SQL
• Containerisation solutions
• Access management tools - CyberArk

Personal Attributes

• Excellent communication and internal networking
• Determination, motivation, and fast learning
• Adaptability and multi-tasking
• Strong team player with attention to detail

Interested?

If you have hands-on BMC Discovery experience and are looking for your next contract opportunity, we'd love to hear from you.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.