Application consultant

The Application Consultant contributes to the development of the strategic OT Asset Information Management solution and is responsible for its implementation. Working as a senior member of the programme delivery team, the Application Consultant will make application design decisions that satisfy both local and global requirements.

Expectations

• Responsibility for defining effective application designs on capital IT projects up to £5m.
• Leads teams of internal resources (up to 5), supplemented by external contractors as required, with responsibility for the management and execution of application solutions on behalf of SPEN.
• Provides expert advice on a number of specific application platforms to transformation teams and projects.
• Provides expert input to global/local definition of strategy, standards and procedures relating to specific application areas.
• Able to develop into detailed designs solutions identified by the Architecture & Strategy team.
• Responsible for the oversight and management of 2L and 3L support partners ensuring quality of service and continuous service improvement.
• Significant experience of application development in an organisation of similar scope and scale to ScottishPower, with previous solutions application design experience in a global organisation preferred.
• Significant ServiceNow experience.

Requirements

• 4+ years related work experience.
• 4 years of progressive experience in software engineering/enterprise architecture/technology leadership across multiple products, systems and/or platforms.
• 4 years working in application solutions design delivering IT solutions.
• 4 years of experience in enterprise applications database, distributed computing, virtualization and/or application technology.
• Experience delivering industrial platforms or horizontal software middleware.
• Knowledge of technologies and common packaged platform/systems PRINCE2, PMP, Agile are beneficial.