Senior consultant – Role Description
Location:
United Kingdom
Division:
Digital Transformation
Reports into:
Principal Consultant
Grade:
Senior Consultant
The way we work reflects the values at the heart of our business:
Partnership, we become one team and family with organisations, helping them to navigate change and stay agile.
Integrity, our people really care, going beyond the brief to make change happen for organisations and citizens.
Innovation, we bring together the right technologies and services to design solutions that work.
Passion, we are passionate about — and dedicated to — public services and improving people’s lives.
Role Description
The purpose of the IT Strategy Team is to create linkage between Client Strategic Objectives/Business Need, Service Design and Technology Solutions to create opportunities for Agilisys whilst building Client relationships and confidence in Agilisys capability.
The business analyst supports the consultancy team in research data capture and analysis task related to technology strategy development and delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Working in collaboration with clients to capture specific data related to applications, infrastructure, contracts, resources, and finance
- Managing relationships with a wide range of stakeholders including business, commercial, financial and technology professionals across all levels of Client organisations
- Preparation and analysis of surveys client surveys
- Conducting stakeholder interviews
- Data entry into analysis tools
- Analysis of captured data utilising MS Dataverse and Power BI
- Identification of good practice and areas for improvement within Client technology environments based on the results of the analysis
- Preparation of dashboards and reports for presentation to Clients
Role Objectives
The role holder will have ongoing objectives alongside other specific objectives that will be set from time to time.
We are seeking to strengthen our team with people who can successfully support delivery teams and add value to the performance of our business.
Our Senior/ Principal Consultants develop relationships with clients, partners, staff and associates, and are great at harnessing the best of Agilisys’ expertise to deliver solutions for clients.
Our Senior/ Principal Consultants also identify new opportunities to solve client’s future challenges and are responsible for contributing to profitability and strong governance on our projects.
What we are looking for
- Documentation and writing skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Analytical thinking and process orientated
- Able to build relationships with key stakeholders
- Able to assimilate information quickly and draw conclusions from it
- Able to consider short term versus long term approaches in decision making
- Objective and effective listening.
- Good digital transformation project experience within the public sector
- Experience regarding Business change, service, and organisational design.
Candidate Attributes
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Attribute
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Minimum requirement
(Senior Consultant)
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Very good looks like
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Management Experience
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Some example and experience in helping more junior consultants out within the team.
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Delivery experience
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Diagrams, and performing business process modelling, Using Agile boards to maintain a constant flow of work in play at any time
Assist the Scrum Master in daily tasks such as recording team metrics or removing blockers Walking them through possible solution designs, investigation of issues,
Ability to research information and analyse data to arrive at valid conclusions, recommendations, and courses of action
Proven experience in solutions analysis environment with specialisation in business analysis
Excellent level of analysis experience and knowledge of structured techniques and Group standards
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Skills, qualifications, certificates
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Knowledge of Blue Prism automation software, Experience building disciplined Agile working practices, Documenting requirements in the form of Agile User Stories and Acceptance Criteria, Where appropriate, using more formal analysis techniques such as UML, Use Case and Activity
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Emotional Intelligence
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Role model for company values, manage their emotions and respond rather than react.
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Passion, Ambition, Aspiration
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Self-starter, passionate about improvement of delivery and able to set direction for the team.
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Communication Style
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Good written skills, able to draft and refine technical written responses, documents, and reports (1,000 to 5,000 words).
Awareness of others communication styles and needs and adapts own style to suit, comfortable and confident in communicating with senior client and internal technical stakeholders.
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