Senior Technical Consultant (UK)

Since 2011, we’ve made it our mission to make Source-to-Pay projects more efficient, valuable, and enjoyable for the high-growth through Fortune-level companies we serve. We help ambitious leaders across North America take Source-to-Pay projects from inception to accolades, using our proprietary Frame™ process. To date, Optis has deployed Source-to-Pay solutions with public and private sector organizations across Canada and the US with a team of functional and technical specialists. Optis is a consulting firm that is solely focused on Source to Pay and creates value by supporting the full investment lifecycle to include: strategy, implementation, and adoption.

Working at Optis, we pride ourselves on being different than big firms by providing meaningful opportunities to make an impact and rapidly advance your career. We provide competitive pay, a transparent and predictable bonus structure, great benefits, and a better than industry work-life balance. This results in >90% staff retention rate.

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Optis Consulting is actively seeking a Senior Technical Consultant to join their Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Montreal, NYC, Salt Lake City, or London team. Working closely with the Project Manager, the Senior Technical Consultant will serve as the first point of contact between technical clients integrating our partners’ solutions (SAP Ariba, Coupa, GEP, Celonis and/or Ivalua) with their ERP and/or other internal and 3rd party systems. The Technical Consultant will be responsible for developing technology solutions and mapping Optis customers’ business requirements to systems/technical requirements to ensure they are in line with the enterprise architectural plan.

As a Technical Consultant, you will provide input to the strategic direction of technology investments to assist Optis customers in the development of the enterprise architecture and maximise their return on technology investment. We need our Senior Technical Consultants to be confident, versatile and passionate, with an ability to tackle new problems as we continue to help our customers improve. They must be logical thinkers, have a strong ability to collaborate as part of a team and manage ambiguous or uncertain situations. They must have exceptional communication skills, be adaptable, proactive and willing to take ownership.

• Will be responsible to develop solutions for clients using service-oriented architecture patterns.
• Manage and implement an API-led strategy to connect data and applications with APIs.
• Define and gather requirements and conduct design sessions for technical solutions.
• Own complete lifecycle of delivery including architecture, design, development, test, and documentation of integration, custom development, and data migration solutions for business applications in the SaaS and other ERP systems.
• Responsible for defining and documenting Integration architecture, capturing, and documenting non-functional (architectural) requirements, preparing estimates, and defining technical solutions.
• Estimate the tasks and resources required to design, build, and test the code.
• Develop new code or existing code for solution development/enhancement.
• Maintain a sharp focus on system reliability and ensure overall solution architecture can gracefully handle upstream and downstream system failures.
• Provide in-depth expertise in the discipline of integration architecture, data sources, security, technical design, programming, testing, and deployment.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent preferred.
• Proficient in developing integrations with Web Services, XML, JSON, SQL and/or other integration technologies are mandatory.
• Experience facilitating application integration architecture discussions and workshops.
• Proven experience in developing integrations using REST API, SOAP Web Services and other integration architectures.
• Experience with SAP Ariba, Coupa, GEP, Celonis and/or Ivalua Procurement solutions is mandatory.
• Additional experience using other ETL tools is preferred.
• Should have 5+ years of experience as an Integration Architect or Lead Technical Architect capacity in an Agile/Hybrid development environment for transformational programs in the Source-to-Pay programs or equivalent.
• Proven skills as a team member, team lead or project manager on at least three full life cycle implementations.
• Functional knowledge of Procurement business processes.
• Technical aptitude and comfort in understanding web-based applications and the SaaS, PaaS and IaaS Cloud models, and Integration concepts as well as application of these technologies in the enterprise environment.
• Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience presenting a clear and concise technical narrative.
• ERP Knowledge – SAP / PeopleSoft / ORACLE or others is preferred.

• Ability to travel up to 35% of your time. Travel may include Canada and the USA.