Technical Consultant

The Opportunity

As a Technical Consultant you will play a crucial role in the discovery of Business requirements, Development of the Public Sector Technical solutions and in supporting the winning of opportunities.

Technical Consultants will be expected to possess a sound level of domain knowledge, or one or more technical specialisms with demonstrable ability to co-ordinate small teams.

Technical Consultants should be able to demonstrate recent knowledge of one or more of the following technical specialisms:

• Data Science or Data Engineering
• Cloud design/delivery experience
• Machine Learning/ AI
• Technical and systems solution architectures

The role will also include

As a Technical Consultant, you'll be comfortable working alongside Engineers but equally capable of clearly articulating complex technical concepts in an easily understood manner to non-technical colleagues

You'll work with stakeholders at multiple levels to determine the contribution that business and IT improvements can make to achieving business objectives and, or delivering strategic technical capability; agreeing and prioritising business requirements, conducting Technical Options Appraisals and assisting in the definition and implementation of holistic solutions

Key Responsibilities

• As a Technical Consultant, you will assist seniors throughout the systems lifecycle, ensuring that solutions are aligned with the strategy and enterprise architecture
• Aligning Technological Approaches with Business and Customer Goals, identifying Benefits and approaches to managing dependencies and mitigation of risk
• Provide technical assistance to development teams, from assisting with development, conducting code-reviews to promoting technical best practice where appropriate. Including participation in regular design sessions and other quality assurance activities
• Support the internal development of Roke Consulting's consulting capability by building a team of specialist technologists and business analysts through training, recruitment and capability development.
• Support account and project managers in winning new work and delivering quality and assured deliverables work to clients.

Person Specification
Knowledge, Skills & Experience

To qualify for the role you must have:

• Demonstrable experience in delivering business and technical consultancy projects ideally within the UK Government and Law Enforcement arena.
• Experience in delivering Technical input to all stages of the Systems Lifecycle
• Able to integrate and successfully work within multi-disciplinary teams both onsite and offsite in client facing engagement
• Experience of acting as the bridge between business, technical and non-technical teams
• Experience of defining and implementing technical aspects of client strategies