Junior Consultant
Base salary up to circa £35k depending on experience
Start date: asap
Location: Hybrid. You can work from wherever you prefer, though you must be able to travel to our Chancery Lane/Farringdon Central London office or client sites (London) as required – 1-2 days per week indicatively
This role is ideal for ambitious and curious fresh graduates of bachelors and postgraduate degrees, and graduates with some professional work experience
About Capacitas
Founded in 2002 and based in London, Capacitas is the only consulting firm specialising exclusively in reducing cost and performance risk in business-critical IT systems:
We are thought‐leaders and trusted advisors in IT Performance Assurance
We have a unique methodology that strikes the balance between service, risk and cost
We have extensive experience protecting high revenue, high availability clients
We invest in R&D - developing solutions to enable fast, efficient and scalable delivery
At Capacitas we know what great performance looks like for our clients and their customers. We enable our client’s IT systems to be available, fast and cost efficient without slowing their rate of business change. Our clients include – JD Sports, easyJet, Domino’s Pizza, Skype, and many more
To hear more about us and what we do for our clients visit our website: https://www.capacitas.co.uk/
Role overview
As a Junior Consultant with Capacitas, you will work as part of a project team with experienced and talented colleagues, delivering work for our clients. The range of projects you work on will vary according to current demand and your professional development needs. Typical projects include:
Conducting systems risk management assessments
Designing performance test plans to address performance risk
Demand forecasting / planning
Development of capacity and performance models
Proactive system monitoring to identify performance risks
You will report to your line manager and your career development will be supported by the Talent department.
A day in the life of a Junior Consultant involves
Updating your project team and being updated in daily stand-up meetings
Working independently on technical work to support project delivery, such as running performance tests or scripting (among many other possibilities)
Liaising with contacts at client companies at all levels (from junior to senior), building relationships with customers
Making recommendations for clients and for your project team
Identifying new opportunities to work with clients and optimising solutions for our engagements
Participating in internal meetings with colleagues in the Development team
Participation in internal meetings with the innovation or talent team, working on our development and growth as a company
As you become more experienced, you will become responsible for developing others and start to lead parts of project delivery
About you
To thrive as a Junior Consultant with Capacitas, it’s important you...
Are motivated by:
An inherent desire to work in tech
An inherent desire to add value to and satisfy clients
An inherent desire to continuously learn and grow
Working in a collaborative environment in which you support and are supported by others
Show the following behaviours:
Manage time and priorities in order to meet deadlines
Engage with and confidently approach other people, demonstrating empathy and emotional intelligence in interpersonal interactions to build productive working relationships
Demonstrate proactivity, spotting opportunities for improvement and suggest/implement improvements of your own accord
Demonstrate flexibility and adaptability in response to changing conditions/priorities
Demonstrate resilience and persistence in the face of challenges and when learning new skills, seeing setbacks as a positive opportunity for growth
Confidence to challenge the status quo
Have the following abilities:
Able to use excel for data analysis to an advanced level, or aptitude and willingness to learn more advanced Excel skills readily
Able to understand IT infrastructure
Able to learn quickly
Able to communicate effectively, in particular the ability to convey the right amount of information in the appropriate style fitting to different audiences
Problem solving mentality and approach
Numerical and data analysis skills, including the ability to spot and interpret trends
Ability to understand customer requirements and business objectives
Able to work effectively as part of a team and independently
Qualifications and knowledge:
2.1 bachelors or advanced degree in computing, science, engineering or maths; OR
2.1 bachelors or advanced degree from any discipline + demonstrated desire and aptitude to work in tech
Knowledge of the Microsoft office suite, particularly Excel, is essential
Knowledge of any of the below would be beneficial though not essential
Windows or Unix/Linux operating systems (to basic level)
Understanding of the principles of ICT capacity and performance management
Understanding of Queuing Theory
Understanding of Regression Analysis
Principles of Risk Management
Performance testing skills
Experience with Jmeter or LoadRunner performance testing tool packages
Java, C#/.NET, or Python
SQL
Experience with RDMS systems e.g. MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle
Technical tools you may use as a Junior Consultant
AWS, Azure
Cost-explorer
Cloudwatch
APIs (further performance metrics)
Monitoring tools for CPU
PRTG
Zabex
MatLab
GitHub
J-Meter
Gatling
Scripting and coding software
The things our Junior Consultants most like about their job
Lots of responsibility
Working with people, as well as tech
Reward & deliverables
Plenty of responsibility, which increases as you are ready for it
Our supportive, collaborative and empowering culture
If this sounds like something you might be interested in then we want to hear from you!