Design Consultant

Summary

Join Target Group as a Design Consultant and make a real impact in the Financial Services and Technology sectors. This primarily remote role focuses on designing high-quality, scalable, and secure solutions for Target's clients, aligning with the company's technical roadmap. You will collaborate with internal teams and senior leadership, research new technologies, and support the Solution Architect. The position requires strong technical skills, experience in financial services, and excellent communication abilities. You will also contribute to the bid process and work closely with sales and commercial teams. Target offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• Subject matter expert within Financial Servicing (Lending and/or Investments)
• Client facing experience
• Presentation experience
• Security by Design
• Experience of designing to standards and utilising industry patterns
• AS400 / iSeries experience
• Resilient
• Methodical; can focus on providing accurate, clear solution designs
• A team player – collaborates with colleagues to drive common approaches
• Able to present like a Consultant assured behaviour

Responsibilities

• Design high quality, scalable, secure and resilient solutions for Target and the requirements of its existing or future clients
• Utilise effective design capability that can be articulated to clients and internal teams for the development of proposed solutions
• Sit on the internal Design Authority Board (DAB) and review proposed designs to ensure compliance with the agreed terms of reference for Targets technical strategy
• Play a key role in Targets modernisation by utilising your skills and knowledge of the IT industry to shape solutions
• Communicate design decisions, plans, goals and strategies to project teams and senior leadership
• Research, investigate, propose and introduce new technologies/third party applications to ensure Target remains relevant within the market
• Utilise Product, Industry & System knowledge to support the Solution Architect by designing components of the High Level Solution
• Articulate solution designs to software engineering teams to facilitate low level design
• Act as the technical design authority in project delivery, working with technical leads to ensure that the requirements of the solution are implemented in full
• Provide product, system and industry guidance to the project team
• Support the Change project governance process, Design Solution Owner Group and Change SDLC
• Working closely with Sales, Bid and Commercial teams, providing product and technical knowledge support to the bid process
• Support the Solution Architect for all Bid opportunities you are allocated
• Owning the process of engagement with all areas of the business and articulating the proposed solution design
• Providing design estimates for new functional components

Preferred Qualifications

• Cloud Deployment (AS/Azure)
• IBM Middleware e.g. IBMi
• API Integration e.g. Mulesoft
• Project Delivery Methodologies E.g. Waterfall, Agile
• Tooling e.g. JIRA & Confluence
• SQL Scripting or Programming

Benefits

• A competitive salary of up to £60,000 per annum, depending on experience
• 30 days holiday PLUS bank holidays (That's right! 30 days from Day 1)
• At least two days per year to give back to our community through our volunteering initiative
• Defined Pension Contribution Scheme (Employer matched up to 6%) with the option to contribute via Salary Exchange (Salary Sacrifice)
• Employee Discount Scheme, access to discounts and offers across 100s of leading retailers
• Company Paid Private Medical Insurance (benefit in kind)
• Group Life Assurance (4x Annual Salary)
• Group Income Protection
• Annual Pay Review
• Discretionary Annual Bonus Scheme
• Help@Hand – Confidential access to health and wellbeing support to include Employee Assistance Program
• Free Flu Vaccinations, Eye Tests and employer contribution towards glasses
• Recognition Scheme
• Free Mortgage Advice and Support
• Funeral Concierge and Bereavement Services
• 24/7 access to a GP
• Discounted health club memberships
• Salary Sacrifice Technology Buying Scheme
• Access to Wisdom, total wellbeing solution