Your mission
The Role
Our Technical Consultants are experts in optimising the creation, testing, deployment and operation of software and delivering technical and consulting excellence.
Responsibilities and Duties:
Consulting Delivery
- Leads the delivery of client projects to deliver billable consulting services around our partner products.
- Participates in the full project life cycle, taking ideas from concept through full deployment.
- Applies project management methodology effectively in a wide variety of situations and adapts methodology to new situations.
- Uses technical competence and implementation experience to develop functional and technical solution skills.
- Passion to learn new skills and an ability to work with limited supervision.
(These responsibilities account for on average 90% of a Technical Consultant’s working week.)
Pre-sales
- Assists in the creation of detailed sales proposals.
- Conducts technical demos and participates in customer calls when necessary.
(These responsibilities account for on average 5% of a Technical Consultant’s working week.)
Leadership
- Acting as the accountable consultant for client engagements.
- Ability to motivate others and always be available to lend a helping hand.
- May be given responsibility as a team coach, leading and mentoring small teams of up to 8 members.
(These responsibilities account for on average 5% of a Technical Consultant’s working week.)
Your profile
Qualifications and Skills:
Essential | Nice to have |
A relevant and strong degree within a STEM subject and to a 2:1 minimum | Experience with Atlassian products and services, either administrating or as a user, including Jira and Confluence (accreditations preferred) |
2+ years working in IT consultancy or a technical customer facing role | Experience with Cloud Platforms, for example AWS, Azure or GCP |
Experience working on technical implementation projects, such as digital transformations, migrations, complex setup and configuration of tooling | Experience with modern technical frameworks and concepts, such as DevOps, Agile or Scaled Agile |
Experience using a range of programming languages and operating systems, such as Java, Python, C#, JavaScript or similar | Experience working with a sales team to respond to RFP’s |
Why us?
Salary and Benefits: £40,000 - £55,000 per annum
- 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
- Private Healthcare
- Dental insurance
- Enhanced Maternity & Paternity plans.
- Pension Scheme
- Dedicated ongoing training plan and budget.
- Flexible working hours and environment
- Access to the Electric Car Scheme
- Automation Consultant’s Cycle to Work Scheme
- Top Spec Machine and access to virtual test lab
- Onsite gym, showers, yoga lessons and more.
- Regular company-wide events, team social events, including Hackathons and competitions.
We know that here at Automation Consultants, our team members are the best in the industry. So, we do
everything we can to take care of them. We offer ongoing training and professional development, tailored to the individual’s ambitions, as well as creating a team that learn from one another. We offer challenging
projects within a supportive team and believe that your skills should always be growing.
About us
Automation Consultants is a leading Agile and DevOps consultancy, dedicated to improving business performance through digital transformation and software automation, as well as selling our own software under our AppFox brand. We are specialists in Atlassian and AWS, delivering industry recognised automation solutions, software development and technical support. Our customers range from start-ups to global organisations.
