Technical Consultant

Job Description

As a Technical Consultant you will have a wide range of responsibilities focused on providing technical solutions to meet the needs of our clients. You will be a part of a team of professionals that play a key role in implementing solutions and delivering results. Technical Consultants also participate in the full lifecycle of a client’s implementation while interacting closely with the client to meet specific needs throughout the process.

Responsibilities:

Implementation Skills:

• Participate in the full lifecycle of a client implementation such as Requirements Gathering, Business Analysis, System Configuration, Design, Testing, and Support, ensuring compliance with FT’s implementation methodology.
• Interact directly with the client to interpret and analyze business requirements to identify risks and design appropriate solutions.
• Collaborate with the others Consultants to write the design specifications.
• Develop solutions that extend the core FT application to implement client-specific interfaces, workflows, scheduling rules and reports.
• Develop an understanding of the capabilities and limitations of the FT application, architecture, database schema, and development tools to properly and creatively use features to meet client needs.
• Provide guidance for business decisions from a technical perspective on issues such as performance, scalability, reliability, and security.

Consulting Skills:

• Build and maintain a reference-able customer relationship. Exhibits a sense of urgency in providing quality service to both internal and external customers.
• Earn trust and credibility throughout FT and the customer organization. Seek to understand customer issues and deliver appropriate solutions.
• Adhere to FT’s implementation methodology when executing deliverables.
• Complete tasks in a timely manner within the timeframe established.
• Holds self accountable for work products and ensures quality of end results.
• Anticipate problems in advance and provides solutions to minimize risks.
• Communicate the capabilities and design of FT’s software.
• Assist the customer in making decisions to properly and creatively utilize features to meet the customer’s needs.

Professional Development:

• Learn and continually develop FT consulting technical skills.
• Work collaboratively and build relationships with other consultants, customer staff, and third party consultants.
• Keep abreast of (new) product functionality – strive to become a product expert across multiple modules.

Essential Knowledge and Skills

Education & Experience:

• Minimum 3 years IT consulting experience and exposure to all phases of software development including: Analysis and Design, Implementation, Testing, and Deployment.
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering and/or Mathematics.
• 2 years of experience with Java-based technologies: J2SE, J2EE, JSP, JDBC.
• 2 years of experience with database technologies: Oracle, SQL Server, DB2.
• 2 years of experience with application servers: BEA Weblogic, Oracle 9iAS, IBM WebSphere, SAP WAS
• Experience with client-based enterprise implementations and n-tier web application architecture.
• Understanding of basic database concepts
• Ability to grasp concepts quickly and learn predefined methods for extending the FT application functions and customizing the environment to meet specific client’s needs.
• Ability to analyze problems and provide innovative solutions.
• Knowledge of Human Capital Management solutions.
• Proven background in writing requirements and design specifications.
• Consulting experience is an asset.

Technical Knowledge & Skills:

• Write documentation in a clear and concise manner.
• Adjust to changes in priorities and manage time effectively.
• Take initiative to achieve value-added results, within scope of responsibility.
• Develop solutions that consider the impact on other aspects of the project.

If you are interested to join our team, please send your cover letter and resume, indicating the position you wish to apply for to: hr@friartuck.net. We look forward to meeting you.