Application Consultant

**Applications Consultant**
**Glasgow HQ**
**Salary range from £49,120 - £61,400, plus 10% Bonus**
**Hybrid Working**

**Closing date: 7th September**
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**Help us create a better future, quicker**

The Application Consultant contributes to the development of the IT Strategy and is responsible for its implementation. Working as a senior member of multiple project teams on UK IT projects, the Application Consultant will make Application design decisions that satisfy both local and Global requirements, ensuring that the Applications Analysts are familiar with the design decisions.

**_ What you’ll be doing_**:

- Provide clear direction to Delivery teams. Improve Application Analyst knowledge through mentoring, workshops and other skill transfer methods
- Contributing to the IT Strategy implementation through formal approval processes. Responsible at a project level for alignment of projects with core IT strategy via the Architecture and Technology group
- Early engagement on large IT projects and IT programmes; Taking strategic direction from Solutions Architect and defining detailed Application Solutions for the business. Assisting business in early scope definition, feasibility analysis and business case development
- Develop testing strategy for larger IT projects where long end-to-end business threads need to be tested spanning multiple underlying integrated systems
- Development of IT Disaster Recovery plans as defined in the IT Strategy
- Responsible for the tools and design models - business processes, information systems, interfaces and technical infrastructure - that are used for requirements capture, impact assessment and high level design
- Provides technical assessment and prioritisation on projects to the Demand Management submission
- Create project dossiers and Project Manage and drive small size projects

**_What you’ll bring_**:

- Excellent utility deregulation experience and working knowledge of industry processes
- Experience in collaborating with various external providers, to complete proof of concept exercises and run innovation projects
- Experience of design modelling and document management tools

**_What’s in it for you_**:
As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we’ll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.

At ScottishPower, we believe it’s the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family’s wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action - our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world - today and tomorrow. That’s why our benefits include:

- 36 days annual leave
- Holiday purchase - perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
- Share Incentive Plan and Sharesave Scheme
- Payroll giving and charity matched funding
- Technology Vouchers - save more and spread the cost of your technology purposes
- Count us in - pledge to reduce carbon emissions and help fight climate change
- Electric Vehicle Schemes - to help you transition to green/clean driving
- Cycle to Work scheme and public transport season ticket loans
- Options to purchase dental insurance, private medical insurance, health cash plan and annual health assessments
- Life Assurance (4x salary)
- Access to ‘nudge’ financial wellbeing support
- Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

**_ Why ScottishPower_**:
ScottishPower is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. With a commitment to generate all of our energy from renewable resources and a drive to create the energy infrastructure of the future, we’re at the forefront of the journey to Net Zero and investing over £6m every working day to make this happen. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.

Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you’ll fit right in.

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