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  1. Careers and development
  2. Position descriptions

Senior Consultant

Role Expectations

You’re an experienced developer, architect, problem solver and leader of people. You can confidently take on complex projects with little upfront information and limited supervision.

When complications arise, you’re able to rely on your skills and experience to right the ship. Always maintaining trust with our clients, you know when and how to escalate a potential issue before it eventuates.

You can lead a team of your peers in an organisational and technical capacity, while strengthening our standing with customers and the community.

Project Delivery

You’ve demonstrated the ability to take ownership of the delivery of a project from proposal to production with limited oversight. You can:

  • Proficiently set up and lead a software project using agile practices

  • Confidently build a product vision with a customer that will deliver the best value to their business

  • Comfortably define and manage project scope and provide estimates on the work that needs to be undertaken

  • Actively track the progress of a project and manage customer expectations of delivery times and costs, identifying and working to remove any possible roadblocks early

  • Recognise delivery or personnel issues early and define strategies to proactively remedy the issue

  • Keep the SixPivot account manager and associated Principal Consultant up to date with project delivery

Team, Clients and Peers

You've demonstrated the ability to lead a team and mentor peers. You can:

  • Effectively steer technical and non-technical conversations to positive outcomes over any medium

  • Confidently run project and team meetings, keeping participants focused and on topic

  • Communicate technical concepts to non-technical people

  • Proactively support team members and peers by explaining new concepts and coaching them when required

  • Confidently position the value of the SixPivot approach using agile processes and why it is an effective way to deliver software

  • Thrive through respectful feedback when giving and receiving constructive or positive comments

Technical

You have demonstrated the ability to craft software that delivers value to our clients. You can:

  • Confidently make architectural recommendations encompassing technical and non-technical concerns like:

  • infrastructure, identity management, security, scalability, concurrency and maintainability into consideration

  • Operational cost and support, business continuity, and disaster recovery

  • Confidently have a healthy debate with clients and peers around technical decisions while maintaining composure

Company and Culture

You have demonstrated the ability to lead our team values while growing the business within the community and clients. You:

  • Encompass company values and vision

  • Foster and uphold our commitments around mental health and an inclusive culture

  • Subscribe to the Ten Principles of the United Nations Global Compact that SixPivot is a signatory of

  • Subscribe to the SixPivot Consulting Manifesto

  • Actively participate in the SixPivot recruitment process and foster a culture of feedback

  • Proactively call out opportunities for SixPivot with clients

  • Are trusted to take ownership and encourage ownership in the team

  • Are open minded and have a learner mindset

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