So I’m a Senior Modern Workplace Engineer…

Many Job titles in IT are quite descriptive about what the person does that brandishes the title, for example Database administrator, Infrastructure engineer, IT Manager we are all familiar with and kind of get what they do.

Well Modern Workplace has kind of snuck up on us a bit like "Cloud" did I have found myself wondering, what does it really mean?

To me, being a Modern Workplace Engineer is more than a trendy job title… it is something to identify with, a way of thinking and looking at the world around me. It is to have a solid understanding of both technologies and business process, to be curious and question how, and why things are done they way they are. It is to challenge when you think you see another way, be at all times respectful of other opinions and always open to changing your own point of view.

I know that was less of what we do and more what type of person I think it is, but it sets a good tone.

Lets clear up Modern Workplace and Modern WorkSpace. Modern Workplace is the place and physical environment you work in and Modern Workspace it the logical environment or tools you use to do your job. A Modern Workplace engineer bring these two things together to enable business to operate in the most dynamic and efficient way possible.

Modern Workplace engineering is the new generalist, the tech who has worked in networking, servers, client support, Cloud technologies, architecting solutions and not just configuring solutions but how to use them as well. You have to be able to grasp new concepts and technologies quickly and be able to research and apply them to real world business requirements, then be prepared to rebuild it again when something better presents itself.

Now I not saying every other IT professional in every other role don’t have to do the same or are not good it, I’m just saying in Modern Workplace it is fundamental to success as our job.

Modern Workplace engineering is to be disruptive to the norm by finding a better way if it exists, and hopefully learn a bunch of new stuff while doing it.