London, England, United Kingdom
At Aptitude, we’re on a mission to change the way the world’s leading enterprises understand and grow their businesses. Our industry-leading finance data platform, Fynapse, helps organizations streamline their operations, unlock trusted insights and accelerate growth.
We’re proud to be building a global team of passionate and ambitious people who love solving complex challenges and making an impact. We celebrate diverse perspectives and believe that our differences make us stronger, smarter and more creative.
With our headquarters in London and offices in seven locations worldwide, we’re proud to partner with clients across four continents. Wherever you join us, you’ll be part of a global community shaping the next generation of finance technology.
Senior Technical Consultant
You will be joining the team as a self-motivated technical consultant who has experience working on data integration projects, preferably within the Finance Accounting sector.
You will be working on a variety of software implementation projects within a team environment with visibility to the client. This will involve working alongside a client and/or partner delivery resources, providing technical oversight to ensure the successful integration of Aptitude products into the client environment. Ultimately, you will be working in a team that is responsible for data integration required to ingest or extract data from Aptitude applications and ensure that the software is configured correctly in accordance with the client requirements.
Aptitude applications primarily follow a SaaS delivery model although you may be required to support on-premise installations. With support from others, you will also identify, and report risks to senior colleagues to ensure the team is consistently striving to deliver value to all parties.
The role will require you to take ownership of complex technical challenges and make sound technical decisions. Good communication skills are essential, together with the oral and written ability to represent Aptitude Software, sometimes being the sole representative.
What We Offer:
We’ll provide you with the opportunity to grow your expertise in an environment that supports you, your life and your career.
We’ll also offer you a competitive salary and bonus as well as the following benefits:
ShareSave scheme – ability to purchase company shares on preferential terms
Private healthcare
Income protection and group life insurance
Pension Scheme
Company Funded Health Cashplan
Employee Assistance Programme
Access to Private Dental Benefits
Flexible / hybrid working options
Enhanced Family Friendly Leave for adoption, maternity and paternity
Bike 2 Work Scheme
Employee Referral Bonus
Where You Will Be:
This role is based from our London office and we support hybrid working
To us at Aptitude, hybrid working means that our employees come together for 2-days per week at their local office. It’s an opportunity for our teams to collaborate, solve problems together and to be engaged and involved in the wider community of our business.
We ask employees to come into the office every Wednesday and give you the flexibility to choose your other day
The ideal candidate will have the following skills & experience:
Education & Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in IT, business related discipline or similar with at least 5 -7 years’ experience.
Consultancy:
Can quickly gain a full understanding of the project streams that you are assigned to, with the capability to assess, report and recommend risk mitigation
Perform Aptitude Software product installation and upgrades.
Perform and guide colleagues according to best practice
Provide mentoring and knowledge transfer to technical development staff (both client or delivery partner) to whom the solution will be transitioned at project completion.
Provide documentation in the form of detail designs, configuration guides and operational runbooks
Technical:
Demonstrate an understanding RDBMS concepts and an evolving knowledge of the fundamentals of developing database-centric applications. Knowledge of SQL is essential, exposure to Oracle, Postgres, PL/SQL is beneficial.
Demonstrate practical experience in ETL/data integration and REST API development, with exposure to integration tools such as Boomi, MuleSoft, n8n, Informatica or similar. Exposure to Python would be advantageous.
Demonstrate a working knowledge of Azure and/or AWS cloud architecture, with practical experience of cloud infrastructure, storage, databases and networking services.
Demonstrate an awareness of data security and privacy principles, including PII, PHI and GDPR, with practical experience of applying appropriate security controls when designing and implementing data integrations and cloud-based solutions.
Can develop into a capable practitioner of the Aptitude products being used and build a broad knowledge of our complete product suite
Software Development Life Cycle:
Demonstrate a practical experience of following disciplines:
o Management of source code
o Performing automated build and testing
o Allocating development tasks in an agile setting
Demonstrate practical experience working within a software development lifecycle (SDLC), with exposure to associated tools such as Azure DevOps (ADO), Jira, Git, Jenkins, Octopus Deploy or similar technologies.
Testing and Defect Resolution:
Demonstrate an evidence-based approach to investigating & resolving defects
Ensures defect occurrences are minimized by developing effective unit-test strategies
Please click on the ‘Apply now’ button below, including your CV/resume and any other relevant information that will help us get to know you better.
If you’re interested in working at Aptitude, but don’t feel you meet every single requirement of the role, we’d still like to hear from you! A diverse workforce is an essential part of our culture, and we’re dedicated to ensuring that our staff can show up as their authentic self – safe in the knowledge that their differences will be embraced and respected by all. We’re strong advocates of supporting applicants from a wide variety of backgrounds which include different ages, genders, ethnicities, physical abilities and sexual orientation, and we work hard to build the confidence of our workforce through inclusivity, equity and ongoing training. So, if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement, we’d encourage you to apply anyway. You might be just the candidate we’ve been looking for, whether it’s for this role or another.