Principal Technical Consultant

We immerse ourselves in the intricacies of finance digitization, subscription management, compliance, and revenue management which gives us the power to make a real impact. Once we understand how an organization works, we can implement software solutions that provide the clarity, confidence, and control they need to drive growth and achieve their ambitions.

Aptitude has served the offices of finance for over 20 years, delivering financial control and insights to empower our clients to achieve their strategies and ambitions. We are currently serving over 75 CFOs whose organisations generate a combined revenue of over $1 Trillion.

We are proud of our growing team of smart, motivated and passionate people, and believe diverse experiences and perspectives build stronger teams and better solutions.

Headquartered in London, we have seven office locations around the world with clients across four continents.

What you'll do and what we offer

As a Principal Technical Consultant, you may be asked to support either Delivery or Assure services for clients. You may have project responsibilities for configuring Aptitude Software's ('Aptitude') products or you may be responsible for providing high-quality support of clients' configured production solutions.

You will possess excellent domain knowledge and will assume project responsibility for the technical configuration of Aptitude Software ('Aptitude') products and take ownership of components in the solution design. Critical to the success of your role will be your excellent client communication and management skills. As and when required you will be willing and able to deputise for the Senior Principal on a client project.

The role requires that your decision-making process considers risk and the commercial relationships between Aptitude and its clients, consistently striving to deliver value to all parties. You may be required to run workshops in the Scope & Analysis phases to help develop a shared vision of the end-state solution with clients.

You will liaise with Aptitude's product development teams to inform them when clients' requirements cannot be met by the product and work to close those gaps.

As a Principal Consultant you will help to establish best practices to be followed by your team to ensure that our delivery is fit for purpose. You will actively engage with the Product Innovation team and other project teams to share knowledge, best practices and lessons learned.

You will be expected to further your own professional development (keeping yourself updated with relevant knowledge and skills) and mentor other consultants. You will contribute to the evolving company culture and always ensure that you are motivating the teams, celebrating milestones, and ensuring that you contribute towards internal communications, taking your stories and successes out to the wider Aptitude community.

The role may be performed on client premises and travel (in-country and/or overseas) may be required of you.

What we're looking for

Consultancy

• Communicate in a concise and timely manner with stakeholder groups to ensure that critical information is conveyed at an appropriate level of detail.
• Take responsibility for streams of work within the project, liaising with clients and leading other consultants.
• Instigate development activities that implement best practice and prescribed design patterns.
• Provide mentoring and knowledge transfer to client technical development and/or production support staff to facilitate handover.

Technical

• Demonstrate a detailed understanding of ETL and RDBMS concepts and a deep knowledge of the fundamentals of developing database-centric applications.
• Be capable of leading the database design activity.
• Implement CI/CT processes to help ensure high-quality deliverables.
• Be knowledgeable about performance related matters and factor these into the solution design.
• Manage and coach the implementation team to deliver to the required quality and time frames.
• In the context of managed services, you will design, develop, implement, and operate controls including policies and procedures for Aptitude's Cloud Services system. You will reassess the suitability of design and implementation of control activities based on the operation and monitoring of those activities and update the controls as necessary.
• Conduct detailed technical, (design and/or development) reviews as and when required.

How to apply

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Diversity and Inclusion

If you're interested in working at Aptitude, but don't feel you meet every single requirement of the role, we'd still like to hear from you! A diverse workforce is an essential part of our culture, and we're dedicated to ensuring that our staff can show up as their authentic self - safe in the knowledge that their differences will be embraced and respected by all. We're strong advocates of supporting applicants from a wide variety of backgrounds which include different ages, genders, ethnicities, physical abilities and sexual orientation, and we work hard to build the confidence of our workforce through inclusivity, equity and ongoing training. So, if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement, we'd encourage you to apply anyway. You might be just the candidate we've been looking for, whether it's for this role or another.