Digital Platforms Manager – Functional Consultant

Digital Platforms Manager – Functional Consultant

The role

This is a consulting role with an equal emphasis on technical delivery and strong client management. You will be the client’s main point of contact for the scope, requirements and solution, taking overall accountability as the Functional Consultant for individual projects, delivering client solutions using the relevant technology set. You will be hands on both in terms of client engagement and technology implementation. You will operate across the project lifecycle from presales & discovery through to development, test and training.

The Essentials:

• Ideally educated to Degree level or equivalent, we are open to strong candidates from all relevant educational backgrounds but you must have excellent written and verbal communication skills
• 7+ years of experience, gained with a leading professional services or systems integration firm
• Expert knowledge and understanding of digital trends and challenges across industries, gained through project experience, contribution to thought leadership, articles, client recommendation, etc
• Proven experience in providing leadership on complex, digital transformation initiatives, working with and/or running mixed technical teams to deliver the work
• Demonstrable track record of helping to shape successful business development of digital and other transformation initiatives
• Discovery and design workshops to identify and meet client requirements through relevant solutions
• Build of solutions using configuration
• Data migration and integration using data transfer tools
• End User Training and other user adoption activity
• Supporting Pre-sales during development of new business with new or existing clients
• Producing proposals & working with technology vendors to present proposals
• Review of proposals during the Pre-sales process to ensure proposal accuracy
• Working with the commercial team to ensure a smooth handover in to Delivery processes
• Participate in recruitment activities where necessary
• Demonstrable hands-on cloud based cutting edge technology experience
• Relevant certifications
• Ability to travel throughout the UK and overseas

The nice to have:

• Coding experience, server side (e.g. Apex, .Net, Java) and clientside (e.g. Javascript, CSS)
• Majority of related experience gained in one of the following sectors:
• Financial Services – Retail and Commercial Banking
• Financial Services – Insurance and Investment Management
• Financial Services – Capital Markets