IT Consultant Job Description
IT consultant
provides security recommendations for optimal security configuration of systems such as web application firewalls, IDS/IPS, bot management, fraud prevention, online payment security, cloud platforms, and email security.
IT Consultant Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Assess clients’ business operations and technical capabilities and advise them on proper design and planning approaches that will help them achieve their business objectives
Design, build, and deploy PureApplication platforms that support clients’ applications
Assist clients in managing their PureApplication platforms and applications
Perform hands-on Business Analyst role, in line with Senior Business Analyst responsibilities
Independently work with project management and senior management to facilitate the communication between IT and business units, including open issues, project prioritization, resolutions, project requests, and resource allocation
Identify implicit, unstated or unrecognized business needs and assist client in determining if building software, process reengineering or other technology options may (or may not) but the most desirable solution
Facilitate the prioritization or feasibility of solutions and make recommendations to the client and management that will not only provide short-term success but also support the accomplishment of long-term business goals
Provide guidance, task direction, and mentoring to other Business Analysts and assist with problem resolution across projects
Document and analyze requirements in User Stories that include relevant detailed data, functional design and document specifications, and assist with conversion, testing, training and other project needs throughout the development life cycle
Facilitate meetings in support of project teams and customers
IT Consultant Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for IT Consultant
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: ITIL, EPIC, CISA, CISSP, ISO, SA, CEO/CFO, SOC, SSL, CISM
Education for IT Consultant
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the IT consultant job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and University Degree in Computer Science, Business, Technical, Education, Information Technology, Business/Administration, Engineering, Information Science, Technology, Information Systems
Skills for IT Consultant
Desired skills for IT consultant include:
Security assessments
Security audits
Security controls testing
Configuration management
Generation systems
Patch management
System hardening
Fraud and computer forensics
Operation of electric power
Excel
Desired experience for IT consultant includes:
Systems Development - A fundamental understanding of IT Systems Development principles for Waterfall, Agile, Spiral, break and fix methods applied and used
Minimum 2 years of Technical Experience in IT
Provide analysis task time estimates as required
Responsible for content of weekly and monthly project status documentation to be reviewed byAMS leadership and Executive project stakeholders and sponsors
VMware, Window, Linux, Compute, Storage, Network, Disaster Recovery technologies
Reporting Software knowledge - Crystal Reports, Business Objects
IT Consultant Examples
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IT Consultant Job Description
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Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of IT consultant. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for IT consultant
- Owns and manages a capability landscape for lines of business and its product owners as the business and the industry evolves
- Creates and manages the Line of business capability blueprint
- Monthly review of IT Profit & Loss on a global scale, including a comprehensive understanding of variances vs prior month & budget
- Producing monthly reporting packs, including commentary on current month abd year to date Profit & Loss variances, project reporting, timecard analysis, headcount, capitalization, and depreciation
- Updating the projections for headcount, capitalized compensation, maintenance, depreciation, field services, data centers, projects, as the updated budget cycles come throughout the year
- Oversees delivery of asset management services from outsourcing provider
- Provide support to service management functions tied to Asset Management
- Uses the proper processes and practices for managing and administering a variety of contractual agreements, such as contract renewals
- Accountable for supporting internal and vendor license audits and managing the plan to address findings
- Analyzes complex software licensing and deployment data for software to determine license compliance
Qualifications for IT consultant
- Working knowledge of user experience, universal design, accessible design, and human interaction factors
- Working Knowledge of disability awareness, how users with disabilities access technology, and assistive technologies
- Skills working with advanced programing languages (WAI-ARIA, jQuery, PHP)
- FINRA Series 7, 24, 66 (or 63/65) registrations the ability to successfully complete on-going continuing education requirements
- Experience from an IT consulting, system integration or software house company with focus on risk or finance in banking industry
- Working knowledge of SQL / relational databases and/or commercial risk management solutions
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Our growing company is looking to fill the role of IT consultant. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for IT consultant
- Support problem resolution
- Supervise day-to day work/project activities of data, ETL and BI architects in combination
- Work closely with Analytics team to deliver Robust Business analytics solutions
- Lead the preparation and/or review of project proposals/business cases pertaining to Business Analytics and alternatives
- Collaborate with the Process Solutions teams to better understand requirements and improvement potential in identified opportunities
- Works with the Director – IT, Business Analytics to develop best practices relating to requirements definition, process/solution design, and BI solution implementation (delivery and support)
- Provide the sales team with support by responding to questions from prospects and clients throughout the sales process, from employees via a request system within the established service level agreement timeframe
- Create and maintain up-to-date solution sales resources for the sales and relationship managers
- To continually measure, monitor and work to drive down incident levels by identify issues before they occur and resolving them as planned work
- Expects to exercise good judgment and make risk based decisions
Qualifications for IT consultant
- Minimum of 5 years in very good companies
- Knowledge of acquisition, inventory, information technology, Financial Data Structure
- Experience engaging an interacting with C-level executives to define Enterprise cloud strategies and solutions
- Experience working with teams across organizational and geographic boundaries and at multiple levels in the organization
- Electrical Engineering, IT education background preferred
- Understanding IT Technology trend and usability is must, Cloud, Big data, IOT, Mobility, Internet+
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Our growing company is looking to fill the role of IT consultant. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for IT consultant
- Participate in strategic company meetings
- Leverage skills and experience to drive technology guidance that ensures maximum return on investment in Asset Lifecycle Management, Cash & Treasury Management, Credit-to-Cash, Financial Control & Reporting, Financial Analytics, Governance, Risk & Compliance, Lease & Finance Management and Procure-to-Pay
- Conduct in-depth discovery to define need, document courses of action, and conduct business case and process analyses within financial functional areas to identify, communicate, and implement solutions that drive value for the company
- Shape and influence strategic business direction by framing strategic business options and recommending courses of action to drive change
- Ensure potential business solutions that are linked to strategic and financial business drivers
- Gather and document thorough & well defined business requirements
- Serve as project manager for IT based Finance solutions
- Participate in post-implementation review to capture formal business feedback and promote continuous improvement
- Research, analyze and understand changing technology
- Design, develop and implement product solutions across “Configure Price Quote” CPQ and Order Management systems domain, in particular CPQ, Fusion Order Management, Fusion Contracts and other internal custom tools
Qualifications for IT consultant
- University degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related
- Certification in Microsoft technologies is advantage
- Customer experience is advantage
- Fluent in Bulgarian and English, both written and verbal
- Candidates who will graduate from a 4-year institution by August 2018
- Broad knowledge of IT infrastructure and application technologies
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Our company is looking for an IT consultant. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for IT consultant
- Proactively determine interdependencies with other capability workstreams, and manage them
- Develop expertise in processes and data used by business functions within the US Affiliate for content-related decision making
- Ensure solutions adhere to quality and compliance requirements
- Lead customer acceptance, defect resolution, business issue resolution
- Manage projects and ensure alignment with overall roadmap and strategy
- Responsible for tracking and managing multi-vendor delivery (time, cost and quality) against contractual documents
- Works with Senior/Executive leaders to plan, organize, and manage both strategic and tactical programs using the PMO framework
- Identifies logical milestones, risks, issues, and dependencies
- Conducts data gathering, validation and analysis,B2
- Works with Senior Consultant and internal customers/partners to define, prioritize and propose business priorities impacting T&O work
Qualifications for IT consultant
- Advanced level knowledge of HTML and JavaScript such as HTML layout, HTML fonts, HTML styles, HTML scripts, HTML URLs, HTML attributes, HTML events, HTML URL-encode, HTML Webserver, variables, if-then branching, link events, image swaps, windows, frames, the DOM, Loops, arrays, functions and forms
- Advanced level knowledge with Transact-SQL such as Logical Query Processing
- Advanced level understanding of relational database concepts such as object-oriented data modeling, advanced relational features, XML and databases, object-oriented databases, and object-relational databases
- Knowledge of design patterns and object oriented methodologies - GoF patterns
- Familiarity with re-factoring techniques
- Familiarity with Object/Relational Mapping (ORM)
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for an IT consultant. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for IT consultant
- Performs other responsibilities associated with this position as may be appropriate and may manage multiple projects concurrently
- Represents, advises, and consults with the clients on their systems projects
- Presents and explains design of project to client and other team representatives
- Conduct meetings with stakeholders and the departments at the airport, vendors, and contractors to manage IT scope elements affecting the parties involved in the project
- Coordinate with stakeholders and contractors to maintain a clear line of communication for scope, costs and schedules
- Ability to understand client’s IT systems and their operations at the airport
- Enthusiasm and willingness to participate and work well in a team environment
- Process oriented to follow methodology of IT system design, delivery and operations
- E-commerce project implementation
- Mutation on Platform Migration
Qualifications for IT consultant
- Knowledgeable with XML
- Complete understanding of the optimization process in SQL Server
- Experience with SQL Profiler
- Understands SQL Server lock mechanism and lock hints
- Extensive experience in several of the technologies that we use
- Level and IPT meetings