Job Title: Technical Consultant

Reporting to: Head of IT & Innovation

Job Type: Permanent, full time, with travel around the UK as required

Location: Home based

Methods Business and Digital Technology Limited

Methods is an established £85m professional services organisation, which over the last 30 years has provided a range of innovative business and digital technology services, primarily to organisations in the UK public sector. We have over 50 active clients many of which have been working with us for more than 10 years. Public sector clients represent 95% of turnover.

We focus on making a demonstrable positive difference to the Public Sector, generally through the experience of our people and the use of appropriate information technology and data. People, technology and data are at the heart of who we are and deploying these to public good is what we believe in. We work to enable the public sector to function better: for both those who work in it and citizens who interact with it, at all levels.

The Change & Innovation Portfolio combines the skills and capabilities for designing and delivering digital transformation, combining tangible innovation, and emerging technologies to deliver sustainable value to our public sector clients. It brings together the change and technology capabilities to design and deliver innovative solutions and services, that enable clients to understand and capture the practical benefits of emerging technology, with the project and programme management expertise to deliver them.

Role Purpose:

The Technical Consultant will have development background and experience of the public sector, with experience of how technology is used to digitally transform public services. The role will build deep expertise in the use of low code platforms, integration, workflow, and automation solutions and develop a broad knowledge of current and emerging technology solutions in the sector. The role will report to the Head of IT & Innovation, with specific accountability for technical delivery, including data analysis, migrations and system integrations.

Key Responsibilities

Note that the following are reflective of the work to be undertaken and not to be considered as exclusive or exhaustive.

Delivery

- Design and build solutions using low code platforms and related technologies.

- Design and deliver complex technical development and integration work. leveraging technical integrations with low code platforms and other applications and data sources.

- Provide direction and technical expertise on how low code platforms and associated technologies will be implemented, configured and used to build digital services for clients

- Provide direction, training and advice to customers and colleagues on how low code platforms can be used to deliver digital services.

- Ensure that technical standards for the design, development, testing and deployment of digital services are defined, documented and maintained.

- Support the development of technical libraries, ensuring digital and logical assets meet agreed standards.

- Design generic components and templates which can be reused by other Methods consultants when delivering solutions to customers.

Business Development

- Maintain and deepen relationships with client accounts extending our engagement where there is value for the client.

- Support the Head of Practice and Sales colleagues with technical presales, solutioning and contributing to proposal development.

Knowledge Leadership

- Provide technical capabilities for software development, data analysis, integration, migration and database design.

- Develop and maintain deep expertise on low code platforms, associated technologies, product roadmaps and library assets.

- Contribute to the development of new technical products and services and evolve existing products, services and IP in line with market knowledge and practice capability.

- Routinely contribute to practice knowledge base.

- Keep up to date with sector and technology developments.

- Attend and/or support conferences/seminars.

Professional Development

- Train and mentor staff on use of low code platforms and the development of technical skills.

- Identify areas of personal development and propose solutions.

- Develop awareness of structural and cultural issues associated with change and provide signposting to expert Methods resources where necessary to provide the best solution to the client.

NB: Please note that this list is non-exhaustive, and employees and workers may be required to perform such other roles as the Company considers appropriate including for any Associated Company, with prior consultation.

This role will require you to have or be willing to go through Security Clearance. As part of the onboarding process candidates will be asked to complete a Baseline Personnel Security Standard; details of the evidence required to apply may be found on the government website. If you are unable to meet this and any associated criteria, then your employment may be delayed, or rejected. Details of this will be discussed with you at interview

SC Roles

Have you lived in the UK for the last 5 years?

Have you travelled outside of the UK for more than 28 days in the last 12 months?

Have you had any extended periods of travel over 3 months in the last 5 years?

Dates, location, reason for travel

Do you have dual nationality or any former nationalities?

Are you willing to go through the vetting process for SC?

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

- Degree or equivalent professional experience in information technology or related field.

- Professional qualifications or equivalent professional experience relating to software and database development, project management and business analysis.

Experience

Essential

- Minimum of 3 years' experience of software development

- Experience of application development and data migration.

- Experience of technical solution architecture and design.

- Experience of business analysis, including requirements elicitation, process definition, data analysis and re-engineering.

- Working within project teams using agile and waterfall methodologies.

- Experience of supporting the facilitation of change within and across public sector organisations.

- Experience of client and stakeholder management.

- Commitment to improvement of the public service domain.

Desirable

- Experience of software development or data analysis in a local government organisation or similar public-sector body.

- Experience of delivering training on software applications.

- Understanding of the local government sector and technology market with knowledge of key products.

- Experience of leading, mentoring and supporting small and focussed professional teams.

Skills & Ability

Essential

- PHP, HTML5, VB and Java software development skills.

- SQL skills (Including MySQL, and SSIS).

- Data analysis, integration, migration and database optimisation.

- Client and stakeholder interaction and engagement and management.

- Good written and verbal communication skills.

- Strong interpersonal and influencing skills across a wide group of stakeholders.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Desirable

- Ability to clearly explain technical ideas and concepts to non-technical audiences.

- Training and coaching skills.

- Ability to work effectively under pressure and manage risks and issues.

Other requirements

- Self-motivated with a flexible approach to work.

- Ability to travel and stay away from home during the week.