JOB SUMMARY / KEY PURPOSE Responsible for providing support in ensuring that objectives of the projects and engagements for ITA practice...
JOB SUMMARY / KEY PURPOSE
Responsible for providing support in ensuring that objectives of the projects and engagements for ITA practice is met. A Senior Associate is expected to provide guidance to his/her staff during the engagement; and take on some roles of a Manager when needed.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Duties and Responsibilities
- Responsible for effectively translating the high-level design, and adhering to architectural and design standards
- Provide support in the design, development, documentation, testing and debugging new and existing software systems and/or applications
- Review security configurations, and its compliance to existing information security policy
- Provide technical consultancy for new initiatives, to assist in the definition of business solutions or technical strategies
- Conduct research and collection of relevant information and knowledge from internal resources to provide value-adding recommendations to clients
- Supervise and guide staff in the preparation of management reports
- Support Managers in proposal development
- Attend meetings with clients to understand their needs, and offer relevant insights and solutions
- Attend and participate in internal trainings
- Complete the required and assigned web-based learnings
- Prepare time reports in a timely manner
- Develop positive relationship with peers, supervisors and mentors/counselors who can provide advice and support.
COMPETENCY REQUIREMENTS
Education
· Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Engineering, IT, Computer Science
Relevant Experience
· At least five (5) years of work experience in consulting services, and in technology and implementation-related roles (e.g., developer, solution design roles) in major technology transformation programs.
Certificates, Licenses, Registration
· As applicable, in relation to Bachelor’s Degree completed, IT-related certifications (preferred)
Core Competencies
- Able to work effectively and efficiently in a team
- Capable of producing quality outputs with minimal supervision
- Able to meet tight deadlines and project timeline, and is open to working beyond office hours
- Able to lead and coach his/her teammates
- Capable of reviewing output of staff
- Flexible and is willing to work in client sites within or beyond Metro Manila, and is open for secondment in other EY offices
- Has good attitude towards work and has a strong desire to learn
- Interested in pursuing a long-term career in ITA practice.
Functional
- Project management skills
- Able to organize project activities and schedules in line with the approach and methodology
- Able to monitor the accomplishment of action items
- Able to prioritize project activities and workload accordingly when deadlines are tight
- Able to understand and plan for the client’s expectations
- Experience in working on projects utilizing Waterfall and Agile project methodologies
- Experience in IT operations, software development and application and infrastructure support
- Able to respond promptly to all client requests while adhering to review procedures
- Analytical skills
- Experience in performing fit-gap assessments on business requirements and solution functionalities
- Able to analyze business and technical requirements enabling the design and build of scalable enterprise application architectures
- Able to formulate alternatives that contributes to improvements in the systems and processes
- Experience in conducting risk analysis and management
- Accurately identify client issues and communicate clear explanations and suggested actions to the project team
- Understands, and is capable of performing data-driven analysis and synthesis in order to draw insights
- Technology skills
- Have detailed functional and technical knowledge of relevant platforms and/or system capabilities
- Experience in C# programming and scripting languages such as Java, Perl, Python, VB, etc.
- Experience in one or more technology stacks that are open source, cloud solutions (e.g. PaaS, SaaS), Java, or other scalable enterprise foundations
- Knowledgeable
in application development practices, and architecture frameworks,
patterns and business practices
- Communication skills
- Able to communicate effectively with client counterparts through structured questioning, careful listening and delivery of fact-based findings
- Able to present project outputs in a synthesized format and customized based on client audience.
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