Ifs Technical Lead

EDF Energy is a core part of the EDF Group, one of the largest energy companies in Europe with key business operations in the UK, France, Italy and Belgium. We're the UK’s largest producer of low-carbon electricity, the biggest supplier of electricity by volume in Great Britain, the largest supplier to British businesses and we employ more than 13,000 people. We operate nuclear, coal and gas power stations, wind farms, and combined heat & power plants. We have a focus on safe, dependable energy generation and an ethos of service excellence. We are playing a leading role in new nuclear build in the UK to secure a bright future for the combined business and its employees.
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The Opportunity
An exciting new opportunity has become available for an IFS Technical Lead. The purpose of this role is to enable EDF Renewables to manage, deliver and support our own solutions across our products used included Enterprise Asset Manage System, IFS. Enabling future process improvements and digital change within our business.
You will manage, identify opportunities, deliver, and support solutions within IFS, in line with our existing delivery of the solution, existing products, future strategy and digital change. Collaborating with the Lead Product Owner, Business Improvement Team, business leads, executive team, and end users to meet the business needs to improve or automate our processes.
Location; Durham, Edinburgh or London. Hybrid working from home/office.
Pay, benefits and culture
At EDF Renewables we’re dedicated to doing good things and we take pride in tackling the world’s biggest challenge – climate change. We do this by embracing new ideas to create an innovative and open-minded culture, a culture where we trust the best versions of ourselves to make good things happen.
Alongside a competitive salary, bonus, and a market-leading pension scheme, we offer a range of flexible benefits, and employee discounts to help you thrive across all aspects of your life. You can spend your flexible fund on the benefits that matter to you, whether that’s an electric vehicle, private healthcare, or additional holiday.
We’ll offer you the flexibility, freedom and responsibility to make an impact in your role; whether that’s on-site, in the office or hybrid working from home.
We’re committed to championing diversity representation across gender, ethnicity, LGBT+, disability and more. This applies to all our roles, underpinned by our Everyone’s Welcome inclusion programme.We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need.
What you’ll be doing.
You’ll execute project and business as usual tasks and create deliverables, including;
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- Functional and technical specification documentation
- Design documentation
- Process and operating procedure documentation
- Internal control documentation
- Business requirements
- Gap analysis
- Business case
- Reporting Requirements
- Participates in the technical design of Configuration, Reports, Interface Modifications (CRIM) items, makes sure appropriate designs are used in each CRIM item, and the combination of all CRIM constitutes a robust solution.
- Manage and administer the IFS Application.
- Configure, test, and deploy IFS patches and upgrades.
- Perform Data Migration.
- Create new user profiles, assign access rights, modify existing user accounts, and deactivate any non-users.
- Management of ticketing system to diagnose and resolve system issues.
- Report Design in IFS Lobbies, Business Reporter, Quick Reports, Power BI (Business Intelligence)
- Appropriately transfer knowledge and train agreed users to enable them to maintain the implemented software solution.
- Share knowledge and experience by supporting, mentoring, and empowering business users to build their own solutions and other IT staff to become familiar with the benefits of IFS.
Closing date for applications: 10th April 2024
Why EDF Renewables?
At EDF Renewables UK & Ireland we’re committed to tackling climate change. Our rapidly growing team of 500 talented people share an ambition to create a net zero future where clean, green, energy powers all our lives.
It’s a huge ambition and time is of the essence if we are to play our full part in meeting the UK and Ireland’s challenging net zero targets. With our unique mix of technologies including onshore and offshore wind, solar PV, battery storage and green hydrogen we are the UK & Ireland’s most diverse generator of renewable energy.
To achieve our goal of generating a massive 10GW of renewable energy by 2035, we’re working with stakeholders and communities throughout the UK and Ireland to unlock the enormous potential of the low carbon energy sector.
If you’re passionate about tackling climate change to create the cleaner, greener future we all want, we would love you to come join us.
Join us, and let’s do good together.
What do you need to be great at this role?
You’ll hold a minimum of two years of IFS implementation experience as a consultant or on a client team is required.
- Technical experience in customizing/implementing a major ERP/FSM or similar enterprise system.
- It would be advantageous to have experience, exposure and understanding of IFS Cloud and Build place.
- Familiarity with system admin functions such as security and user profile setup and configuration management in an ERP.
- Aware of database administration and system troubleshooting/optimization-related activities
- Understanding of Agile development techniques and other project delivery methodologies.
- Experience of using DevOps tools, work processes and practices.
- Good understanding of how processes and data deliver business outcomes.
- Excellent communication and multi-tasking skills along with a service mindset.
- Strong team player and ability to work with global teams.
Technical Skills;
- Database experience such as SQL Query Tool, PL/SQL Developer (or similar), SQL Server Management Studio
- Understanding of SAAS (software as a service) Solutions
- Understanding of Power BI
- Understanding of BOOMI and API (Application Programming Interface) driven integration
Pay, benefits and culture
At EDF Renewables we’re dedicated to doing good things and we take pride in tackling the world’s biggest challenge – climate change. We do this by embracing new ideas to create an innovative and open-minded culture, a culture where we trust the best versions of ourselves to make good things happen.
Alongside a competitive salary, bonus, and a market-leading pension scheme, we offer a range of flexible benefits, and employee discounts to help you thrive across all aspects of your life. You can spend your flexible fund on the benefits that matter to you, whether that’s an electric vehicle, private healthcare, or additional holiday.
We’ll offer you the flexibility, freedom and responsibility to make an impact in your role; whether that’s on-site, in the office or hybrid working from home.
We’re committed to championing diversity representation across gender, ethnicity, LGBT+, disability and more. This applies to all our roles, underpinned by our Everyone’s Welcome inclusion programme.We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need.