Job Description
This is a leading consultancy role, dealing with
constantly developing, leading edge technology within a high
profile, business-critical customer environment. The role spans
pre-sales, consultancy and project activities. Our consultants are
the key to successful implementations and to be effective in this
role our consultants need to be true experts in their
field.
The HP delivery strategy for IT Governance systems is to
provide a high degree of out-of-the-box functionality, complemented
by powerful customisation capability. This is backed by a strong
project methodology developed specifically to take advantage of
these aspects of the products. Customers implementing ITG require
advice on how to model their business and processes within these
applications and to understand customisation is required to provide
an exact match to their needs. This requires an ability to
understand customer requirements quickly and to be able to
translate them into system usage, as well as the ability to
understand how the customisation capabilities can be used to fill
any gaps. Another component of the consultancy role is to advise
and assist with systems integration with other products from the HP
BTO solution set, and external applications such as Remedy, SAP,
Oracle Applications and in-house developed
applications.
HP’s ITG product set is built on an Oracle data base and
can be implemented on a variety of technical environments including
Microsoft Windows, Sun Solaris, HP, IBM AIX and Red Hat Linux.
Solution Architects must be comfortable working in any of these
environments. The product customisation functionality is
implemented through a custom user interface, which provides
additional customisation options through the use of SQL and PL/SQL.
The ability to work with these languages is essential.
The key goal of a solution architect is to successfully
scope and lead the delivery of client proof of concepts, proof of
values and implementations in a way that delivers value to the
client’s business and enables ongoing sales of licenses and
services.
Working predominately on customer site, European travel
is a requirement of this role and consultants must be willing to
travel to customer sites located throughout Europe. While many
projects are UK based, or require shorter duration travel,
applications should be prepared to travel away from home for
periods of up to 5 months coming back only at
weekends.
As well as being a partly billable role, the Solutions
Architect works closely with R&D to provide feedback on product
direction, and is a significant contributor to best practice and
internal and partner enablement.
Your Profile
A confident, assertive individual with excellent
interpersonal and communications skills, who enjoys working with
customers to solve their business problems. You must possess
the credibility and experience necessary for customer exposure at
senior management levels, including an understanding of multiple
business and technical environments. You will need to be
self-motivated with a “do whatever it takes” attitude. You must be
comfortable working with external partners, engagement and project
managers, and be capable of directing and mentoring more junior
team members. The position would appeal to someone who has a
strong customer focus, with an emphasis on delivery and a broad
range of technical and business consulting skills. HP is a growing
organisation and there is the potential for career progression
within one of the world’s top software
companies.
- BSc Hons, preferably Computer Science or degree with computing
element
- At least 10 years experience in the IT industry including at
least 5 years at an enterprise software supplier or systems
integrator.
- Major enterprise application software implementation
experience
- Technical skills in Oracle and SQL
- Experience of working to formal Project Management
methodologies such as PRINCE, PMI.
- Commercial experience, including price/scope negotiation and
P&L responsibility at the project level
- Experience of multiple complete project lifecycles, including
process design.
- Excellent presentation and communication skills. Demonstrable
customer facing skills, such as training or facilitation
- Experience of managing 3rd party suppliers - at least at
project level
- Understands IT management and drivers. Can show that they
understand the typical drivers, processes and organisational
structures of a large IT organisation
- Very good written and verbal English (candidates that do not
have English as their mother tongue)
Highly desirable
- Experience in the IT Governance area – either with HP’s ITG
tool or it’s competitors (CA Clarity/Niku, Planview, Artemis,
Primavera)
- Experience in any other of HP’s lines of business e.g.
Application Quality and Testing, Application Monitoring and Service
Level Management
- Experience in a Quality Management role on development or IT
projects
- 2nd European language
- Experience of working in similar Software Company environment
to HP
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