IT Applications Consultant

The IT Application Consultant will play a pivotal role in supporting the Corporate Digital Transformation area, which provides services to 17 corporate functions. As part of the Corporate division, the Application Consultant contributes to the development and implementation of the IT Strategy for UK Corporate Solutions, ensuring alignment with both local and global requirements.

What you’ll be doing

• Operating as a senior member across multiple project teams, responsible for making application design decisions, managing and delivering effective application solutions, and collaborating with global technology teams and external vendors.
• Providing expert advice and UK input to the global definition of strategy, standards, and procedures for specific application areas.
• Developing detailed design solutions in line with the Solution Architect’s direction, and creating and maintaining models, templates, and frameworks to support the implementation of business requirements.
• Working closely with stakeholders at all levels to gather requirements for new functionalities, lead workshops, and ensure solutions are aligned with business objectives.
• Managing project responsibilities, including planning, scheduling, resource allocation, risk management, and ensuring timely delivery of project milestones.
• Managing demand from various business areas, acting as Product Expert, and ensuring the effective design, configuration, and implementation of a range of corporate applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, configuration, and deployment of corporate application solutions that meet business requirements across multiple functions.
• Act as the primary point of contact for managing and gathering business demand, defining product vision and roadmaps, and prioritising initiatives to deliver value.
• Engage with senior stakeholders to elicit and validate requirements, facilitate workshops, and maintain strong communication channels to ensure transparency and alignment.
• Manage end-to-end delivery of application projects, including scope definition, progress tracking, and risk management.
• Oversee and coordinate testing strategies, ensuring thorough validation and quality assurance.
• Provide guidance and technical expertise to junior team members and facilitate knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of the Corporate Digital Transformation strategy, ensuring alignment with both local and global models.
• Investigate new application solutions and work with external vendors to identify technologies that meet business goals.
• Validate financial cost assumptions and ensure alignment of projects with core IT strategy.
• Support the transition of new solutions into production and ensure operational readiness.
• Identify opportunities for improvement and optimisation within application processes and workflows.

What you'll bring

• Demonstrable experience in application configuration, development, and workflow optimisation across a range of platforms.
• Experience managing demand and acting as Product Owner for enterprise applications, ideally within a corporate or digital transformation context.
• Proven ability to lead meetings and workshops with very senior stakeholders, gathering and translating business requirements into actionable solutions.
• Strong project management skills, with experience overseeing complex projects and coordinating implementation teams.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills, with experience working across multiple corporate functions.
• Knowledge of ITIL processes and frameworks is highly desirable.
• Adaptability to evolving business needs and technologies, and the ability to build effective relationships with key stakeholders locally and globally.
• Experience working with global IT teams and vendors is advantageous.

Minimum Criteria

• Bachelor’s degree or relevant industry experience.
• 4 years’ of progressive experience in software engineering/enterprise architecture/technology leadership across multiple products, systems and/or platforms.
• Credible experience working in application solutions design delivering IT solutions.
• Experience in delivering industrial platforms or horizontal software middleware.
• Interest in developing skills in emerging technologies.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with proven ability to communicate effectively at all organisational levels.

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, including:

• 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 purchases.
• 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.

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.

ScottishPower is committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to careers@scottishpower.com.

Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country.