Data Integration and Automation Senior Consultant

**About the role**:
At Zellis, we have big ambitions and our Services division is at the heart of them. A key part of this ambition is the growth of its Data, Analytics and Automation Consulting practice, which has created an exciting opportunity for a dedicated and ambitious consultant who is passionate about developing solutions for customers.

You’ll be a key member of the wider team delivering customer funded consultancy and projects focussed on system integrations and automation for Payroll and HR solutions.

As a Senior Consultant you will lead client deliveries, partnering with customers throughout the full life cycle of a project from initial discovery sessions, scoping workshops, writing specifications, development, through to use acceptance testing and handover. You will be a passionate advocate for Data, Automation and Analytics, and regularly support Sales, Commercial and Customer Success Managers in pre-sales discussions to promote the capabilities of the practice.

Key success measures for the role include deliver quality work on time and on budget, excellent customer NPS feedback and achieving chargeability targets. You’ll be a strong communicator and able to engage audiences up to C-suite, using your industry experience to advise, consult and deliver solutions which provide value to the customer.

You will be passionate about learning and keep up to date on relevant skills, knowledge, tools and industry practices/solutions to ensure you are able to continuously develop your team and have the appropriate knowledge to engage stakeholders internally and externally.

**Responsibilities**:

- **Delivery**:

- Leads self, and oversees virtual team members, to deliver projects and solutions to time, cost and quality targets to customer requirements
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to define, scope and quote projects, advising on good practice and recommended solutions Be a point of escalation for complex technical issues, dealing with internal and external senior stakeholders as required- **Commercial**:

- Takes accountability for own performance and ensures work is delivered to the required standard and timescales to enable customer charging
- Deliver customer workshops and presentations to promote our capabilities, to both prospective and existing customers to drive sales pipeline
- Drive continuous improvement by proactively identifying opportunities to improve both internal processes and capabilities and customer solutions

**What you will be doing**:

- Develop, test and support integration and automation solutions, in line with our standards, good practices and design principles, ensuring they meet business needs.
- Interpret functional specification documentation and work with functional specialists to translate business requirements into effective technical solutions, contributing advice to overall solution designs and creating technical specification documentation.
- Work with the wider team to design and implement creative technical solutions to work around system constraints as / when required.
- Adhere to specifications and standards agreed in addition to the IT project lifecycle, including quality assurance and testing of solutions and approval before release.
- Investigate and resolve support incidents, suggesting improvements if possible. On call out of hours support might be required from time-to-time.
- Create and maintain documentation for integration solutions, processes, and data flows.
- Participate actively in improving our development standards, good practices, design principles to continuously improve the quality, effectiveness and efficiency of our solutions.

**Skills & experience**:

- Deep technical expertise in REST APIs, with 5+ years of experience in building and managing solutions.
- Significant hands-on experience of development automation solutions using Power Automate i.e. multiple deployed solutions.
- Be open minded and flexible - you're happy to respond to changing circumstances and priorities while remaining calm and focussed on getting the job done.
- Experience of designing and implementing highly available technical services.
- Experience of working with Azure APIM, Event Grid, Power Platform (and ideally with Microsoft certifications).
- Experience of working with external clients to deliver solutions e.g. consultancy.
- Experience in building Power BI solutions desirable, but not essential.

**Behaviours**:

- Self-motivated, proactive and takes overall ownership for delivering agreed outputs and outcomes, to time, cost and quality targets
- Outcome focussed and flexible, you're able to respond to changing circumstances and priorities while remaining calm and focussed on getting the job done.
- Organised with great attention to detail.
- Collaborates with peers and clients to deliver projects, with the confidence and the ability to appropriate challenge, to achieve the right business outcomes
- A natural interest to keep pace with ne