AddressWe are a long established and highly respected Microsoft Gold Partner with an extensive portfolio of high-profile clients that is continuing to grow.
Due to our continued growth, we are looking for a Senior Consultant who is experienced in ensuring successful definition and delivery of Microsoft-based solutions ensuring time, cost and quality expectations are successfully achieved.
The focus of the role is to lead client engagements by providing technical thought leadership ensuring that the business challenges of the client are understood, and that the technology is applied appropriately to overcome the challenges.
It is our mission to continue growing our portfolio, providing support and guidance to ensure clients are delighted with our service. We deliver enterprise solutions, but also keep a keen eye on the future strategic needs of our clients to ensure our solutions our future proofed. Further to this CPS and Microsoft are driving sustainment within businesses we work with; therefore, adoption and change management is another key aspect of our delivery.
Requirements
The ideal candidate will be:
- An experienced technical expert with excellent consultative skills able to communicate with all levels and areas of an organisation.
- A self-starter, keen to further develop both their personal and the company’s knowledge and skillset, with a ‘make it happen’ attitude.
- Able to demonstrate a proven commercial awareness enabling them to grow the relationship with a client and identify new opportunities whilst they are working on client engagements.
- Able to manage their own time within the commercial aspects of engagements to ensure that all activities are delivered to high quality, on time and within budget.
- Able to demonstrate a proven ability to deliver projects based on a range of Microsoft based technologies to a broad client base, ensuring that the solutions take into consideration technical strategy, successful adoption, long-term sustainability and commercial awareness.
- Able to ensure that clients are delighted by their experience when engaging with CPS.
- Able to design solutions to the highest level and that meet the expectations of clients in every respect.
- Able to demonstrate a broad knowledge of solution delivery patterns and practices, application lifecycle management approaches, with experience gained through all phases from design, development, test and release cycle to delivery and maintenance.
CPS have clients across the UK and travel is required at times, with occasional overseas assignments. This is balanced by an ability to work from home for some of the time.
Key Responsibilities
The candidate will be responsible for:
Ability to translate business requirements into technical requirements and technical implementation into business benefit.
Experience in Microsoft programs such as Catalyst.
Undertaking the following requirements gathering activities:
- Facilitation of requirements gathering workshops with C-level stakeholders downwards
- Management of the expectations of clients involved in workshops
- Documenting the findings of workshops in the form of current state assessments, vision, and strategy recommendations
- Build high- and low- level solution design documentation that can be handed over to a delivery team to implement
Support the growth of knowledge and skills within CPS by:
- Evangelising the latest technologies
- Building demonstrations of the latest technology
- Sharing the knowledge internally within CPS
Delivering a professional, customer focused and high performing solution design service
Ensuring that all content provided to customers is on the highest quality and has been through the internal quality assurance checks before being published
Contributing to the internal processes and standards to ensure that the outcome of engagements is always improving
Passing exams required for CPS to achieve recognition from Microsoft.
Promoting CPS as an expert source of knowledge regarding the latest technologies through blogs, user groups, conferences, etc
Benefits
- £5000 annual car allowance
- 9 Day Fortnight
- Private Medical Insurance with Vitality Health
- Medical Cash Plan with Medicash
- Income Protection & Life Insurance with YuLife
- EV Car Scheme
- Workplace Pension with Nest
- Employee Assistance Programme via Health Assured
- 25 days holiday – increasing to 26 days after 1 year, to 27 days after 2 years and to 28 days after 5 years
- Holiday Exchange Scheme: buy up to 10 days per annum and sell/carry over up to 5 days
- Take your Birthday off
In addition we offer, among others, the following cultural benefits
- Landmark membership gives you access to dozens of co-working locations around the country
- Quarterly and annual star performer awards, voted for by your peers and colleagues
- Monthly spot awards where colleagues can nominate you for exceptional performance
- Annual professional training budget to support your Personal Development Plan
- Monthly 'Glint’ survey to assess colleagues’ engagement levels
- Quarterly company meetings with associated social/team building events
- Workplace pension scheme with Employer contributions beyond legislated minimum
- Regular, meaningful 1-2-1s and performance meetings, at least quarterly, to review and realign your objectives
- Free on-site parking, subject to availability
- Long service recognition at 5, 10, 15, 20 years and onwards
- Unlimited hot and cold refreshments throughout the day in the Reading office
- Regular social activities such as a summer event (Pub in the Park http://pubintheparkuk.com/ ), Christmas event, quiz nights, wine tasting, pub nights, family events, BBQs and so much more
- And an award winning culture!
