Technical Consultant

About GBST

At GBST, we’re inspiring wealth innovation for wealth management and advice organisations globally, delivering excellence and building strong partnerships with leading financial services organisations.

Role Summary

We are looking for a Technical Consultant to provide technical leadership across key client engagements – either one major project or a portfolio of smaller projects – ensuring high‑quality, fit‑for‑purpose solutions. The role involves leading, mentoring junior consultants and promoting best‑practice solution design, while ensuring alignment with client needs, delivery standards, and organisational objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Solution
  • Provide technical leadership across multiple client projects, ensuring coherence, quality, and consistency of solution design throughout all engagements.
  • Define and drive the overall solution architecture for client projects, including integration with the client’s existing IT ecosystem, and align with the broader enterprise architecture.
  • Secure agreement and endorsement of the solution and integration architecture from all internal and external stakeholders; assess, validate, and present alternative options where appropriate.
  • Promote a broader understanding of enterprise architecture, technology strategy, and proposed solutions within the client‑facing team, enhancing architectural awareness and capability.
  • Deliver expert technical consultancy to clients on GBST products, ensuring they fully understand how platform components can support their business and technical objectives.
  • Provide technical guidance and support to internal product development teams, contributing insights from client implementations to improve product design, quality, and usability.
• Support Services
  • Collaborate with clients and Business Analysts to analyse application performance trends, proactively identifying optimisation opportunities and implementing system tuning.
  • Provide mentorship and guidance to the team in resolving complex, cross‑functional issues spanning multiple subsystems, ensuring timely and robust problem resolution.
• Pre‑Sales Support
  • Lead the technical workstream in preparing responses for the technical components of RFIs and RFPs, guiding solution design using existing product capabilities or required enhancements, including integration with existing client environments.
  • Collaborate with the pre‑sales team to deliver technical workshops and demonstrations for prospective clients, articulating potential solution approaches and showcasing how GBST’s technology can address their business and technical needs.
• Team Success
  • Actively participate in team meetings, raising issues proactively, sharing knowledge and achievements, and providing guidance, training, and direction to support team development.
  • Build and maintain strong, collaborative working relationships across the team and wider organisation to enhance communication, alignment, and delivery effectiveness.
  • Communicate information, insights, and decisions clearly and effectively, ensuring the team is informed, aligned, and able to act efficiently.
  • Foster successful collaboration across all areas of the business, promoting transparency, partnership, and cohesive execution of cross‑functional initiatives.
  • Lead the technology team in identifying, prioritising, and implementing continuous improvement initiatives across project methodologies, processes, and supporting tools to enhance delivery efficiency and quality.
  • Mentor and encourage team members to pursue continuous improvement in solution design and technical architecture, reinforcing best practices and driving technical excellence where applicable.
• Compliance & Governance
  • Ensure compliance with GBST policies and standards, statutory requirements and local legislation.
  • Adhere to all company policies, procedures and the corporate Code of Conduct, demonstrating professionalism, integrity and alignment with organisational values.
  • Maintain up‑to‑date knowledge of applicable legislation and industry standards, and engage with relevant professional or industry bodies where appropriate.
  • Ensure personal compliance with workplace health and safety requirements and proactively address or escalates observed breaches.
  • Act ethically and responsibly when handling company assets and interacting with colleagues, clients and partners, supporting a culture of trust and accountability.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience across the full software development lifecycle, with strong familiarity with Agile methodologies and iterative delivery practices.
• Proven experience architecting multi‑tier, complex web applications and leading end‑to‑end technical solution design across multiple cross‑functional teams.
• Demonstrated capability in designing resilient, high‑performance single‑page applications using HTML5 and modern JavaScript frameworks such as AngularJS, EmberJS or ReactJS.
• Significant hands‑on experience delivering mission‑critical, highly resilient systems, focusing on robustness, scalability and operational stability.
• Deep technical expertise in designing and implementing systems using OOAD, SOA, Java, J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, SOAP/RESTful web services (XML/JSON), Spring Security, Spring Boot, AMQP/RabbitMQ, AWS Lambda, Amazon SQS/SNS.
• Recent experience of AI usage in application development.
• Strong understanding of SaaS solution design, operational considerations within an AWS environment, scalability, security, multi‑tenancy, observability and integration with cloud‑native services.
• Working knowledge of application servers such as JBoss and WebSphere.
• Broad understanding of enterprise systems and integration patterns, with exposure to large‑scale, distributed solution environments.
• Proficiency in ANSI SQL, including design and optimisation of stored procedures using SQL Server.
• Experience with modern development and DevOps toolchains, including Maven, Git, Bitbucket, Docker, Kubernetes and other CI/CD platforms.
• Aware of web application security principles and best practices, with the ability to apply them in solution design and implementation.
• Strong awareness of emerging industry trends, technologies and architectural practices, with the ability to incorporate relevant innovations into solution thinking.
• Excellent logical reasoning and analytical problem‑solving skills, with the ability to diagnose complex technical issues effectively.

Benefits

• Private health insurance including dental and optical cover
• Non‑contributory pension scheme
• Salary sacrifice – car scheme, cycle‑to‑work scheme and additional pension
• Flexible working arrangements
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• LinkedIn Learning
• GBST U‑Day – an extra day of leave per year
• Discounted private health insurance