Your mission
The Role
Building on our success in delivering high-impact agile and DevOps projects, we aim to deepen our strategic engagement with customers. The company is therefore looking for senior IT consulting expertise, with a strong commercial focus. You will have the track record and commercial skill to originate and execute complex IT projects for our larger customers, typically large enterprises or similarly-sized public sector entities. You will be comfortable interacting with the CIOs of these organisations and have the management skills to deliver these projects successfully.
For the commercial aspect of the work, you will have the support of the company’s strong sales and marketing teams. You will be able to draft and disseminate marketing messages that fit with your perception of the market opportunities, and you will be able to draw on the sales team as required to make contact with appropriate prospective customers.
For project execution, you will be supported by a team of able consultants with strong technical and organisational skills.
As a Principal Consultant, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our strategic engagements with enterprise and public sector clients. You will have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the direction of the company and to interact with senior management.
Your profile
Responsibilities and Duties
* Originate IT consultancy assignments within or adjacent to the company’s main areas of expertise
* Oversee the execution and delivery of these projects, ensuring they meet customers 'objectives and deliver measurable return on their investment
* Interact with our customers at all levels, up to and including strategic, CIO level
* Work with the sales and marketing teams to refine the company’s commercial strategy
* Interact with the company’s partners, such as Atlassian, AWS and monday.com.
Qualifications and Skills
Essential
* A proven ability to originate complex IT consultancy projects
* The ability to project-manage complex IT consultancy projects from inception to a successful conclusion
* Strong commercial awareness and ability to interact with customers at a senior level
* Leadership skills with experience in managing and motivating high performing teams
Nice to have
* Experience of consultancy projects in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning
* Experience of Atlassian software including familiarity with Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket.
Why us?
Salary and Bebefits:
We know that at Automation Consultants, our team members are the best in the industry, so we do everything we can to take care of them. We offer ongoing training and professional development, tailored to the individual’s ambitions, as well as creating a team whose members learn from one another. We offer challenging projects within a supportive environment and believe that your skills should always be growing.
£competitive commensurate with your experience and the value you bring to our team.
Benefits include:
* 25 days’ holiday (excluding bank holidays which are taken in addition)
* Private Healthcare
* Dental insurance
* Enhanced Maternity & Paternity plans
* Dedicated ongoing training plan and budget
* Flexible working hours and environment
* Access to the Electric Car Scheme
* Cycle to Work Scheme• Pension Scheme
* High spec. machine and access to virtual test lab
* Onsite gym, showers, yoga lessons and more.
* Regular company-wide events, team social events, including Hackathons and competitions
About us
Automation Consultants is a leading agile and DevOps consultancy with a complementary software arm. Our consultancy services dedicated to improving our customers’ business performance through digital and agile transformation and automation of software development processes. Our software, which is sold under the AppFox name, complements these services. We are specialists in Atlassian and AWS, delivering industry-recognised automation solutions, software and managed services. Our customers range from start-ups to global organisations.