Application Consultant

The Application Consultant contributes to the development of the strategic OT Asset Information Management solution and is responsible for its implementation. Working as a senior member of the programme delivery team, the Application Consultant will make Application design decisions that satisfy both local and Global requirements

Expectations

• Responsibility for defining effective application designs on capital IT projects up to £5m.
• Leads teams of internal resources (up to 5), supplemented by external contractors as required, with responsibility for the management and execution of Application solutions on behalf of SPEN.
• Provides expert advice on a number of specific Application platforms to Transformation teams and projects.
• Provides expert input to global/local definition of strategy, standards and procedures relating to specific Application areas.
• Able to develop into detailed designs solutions identified by the Architecture & Strategy team.
• Responsible for the oversight and management of 2L and 3L support partners ensuring quality of service and continuous service improvement.
• Significant experience of Application development in an organisation of similar scope and scale to ScottishPower, with previous Solutions Application Design experience in a global organisation preferred.
• Significant ServiceNow experience

• 4+ years' related work experience.
• 4 years' of progressive experience in software engineering/enterprise architecture/technology leadership across multiple products, systems and/or platforms.
• 4 years' working in Application solutions design delivering IT solutions.
• 4 years of experience in Enterprise applications database, distributed computing, virtualization and/or application technology.
• Experience in delivering industrial platforms or horizontal software middleware.
• Knowledge of technologies and common Packaged Platform/Systems PRINCE2, PMP, Agile) are beneficial.