Delivery Consultant

Company Description
**Who are Experian?**

We are the world’s leading global information services company. During life’s big moments - from buying a home or a car, to sending a child to college, to growing a business by connecting with new customers - we empower consumers and our clients to manage their data with confidence. We help individuals to take financial control and access financial services, businesses to make smarter decisions and thrive, lenders to lend more responsibly, and organisations to prevent identity fraud and crime.

We have 20,000 people operating across 44 countries and every day we’re investing in new technologies, talented people, and innovation to help all our clients maximise every opportunity. We are listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN) and are a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.

**Our approach to flexible working**

We care about work that works, whether that’s about where you work or adjusting your hours to fit better with your life. Our flexible working practices, including our hybrid working model where you can split your working time between the office and your home, support our belief that this balance brings long-lasting benefits for our business as well as ensuring that our people can balance successful careers with their commitments and interests outside of work. So that you can love where you work, please discuss what works for you with your recruiter during the hiring process.

**Accepting you, for you.**

We want you to feel accepted for who you are and to feel safe, valued and to help us build a culture of true belonging. Experian is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we take affirmative action to create a more inclusive and equitable world of work. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital status, race, ethnicity, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, Veteran status or whether you’re pregnant or on family leave.

**Job Description**:
A Delivery Consultant is a key role and is responsible for leading the design, delivery and quality assurance of the solution and is accountable for successful client solution implementations.

Our Delivery Consultants now work in a fast-paced cloud-based environment which embodies the principles of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). Our Experian One platform is at the forefront of our ambitions to build and delivery cloud-based solutions for our clients and this role will be leading the charge into this area.

The Delivery Consultant is the technical leader of the solution delivery, has a good knowledge of the other functions required within the team and works closely with the Project Manager to co-ordinate each delivery.

The right individual will help Experian deliver its cloud-based strategy whilst also reaping the rewards of personal development working on the latest cloud-based technologies.

**Experience**
- Required experience of all phases of software development including requirements analysis, design, coding, testing (integration, user, and performance), debugging, implementation, and support.
- Experienced of delivering cloud-based solutions in a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) environment and has a good knowledge of the underpinning technologies (Jenkins, Bit Bucket, Artifactory etc) and ways of working
- Successfully delivered complex solutions to clients
- Able to collaborate widely
- Knowledge of Experian solutions capabilities / limitations, design, functionality and benefits
- Good knowledge of project management methodologies, including Agile and Waterfall
- Experienced in leading delivery teams
- Possess a working knowledge of XML and SQL, relational databases and associated terminologies
- Working knowledge of Jira or similar tools
- Experienced in using Microsoft Office tool suite including latest versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio
- Possess an understanding of connectivity via interfaces including enrichment of data
- Advanced problem solving and analytical skills
- Advanced experience in writing detailed and accurate specifications
- Proven history in coaching and mentoring

**Accountable**
- Accepting delivery from Sales into delivery
- The quality of outputs by delivery team
- Overall solution implementation
- Delivery teams’ ways of working including move to cloud-based delivery
- The management of risks and issues
- Solution construction
- Delivery readiness
- Handover between Delivery and Service

**Responsible**
- Client workshops
- Presenting results, conclusions and recommendations to clients
- Dependency Management
- Release Planning
- Creation and maintenance of task boards including backlog items
- Production of handover documentation and fulfilling the service transition governance
- Undertake impact assessment for inflight change requests in relation to functional elements of solution
- Supporting the wider delivery network when