Principal Consultant

Role:
Water Domain and Solutions Lead

Location:

Anywhere in the UK (The candidate must be willing to travel to client sites in Exeter, Devon (EX2 7HR
) & North of England or the Midlands—particularly Leeds, Manchester, or Birmingham) – Travel expenses will be reimbursed

Contract Role : (6 months initially)

Work Mode :
Hybrid

Start Date:

Only Immediate Joiners or candidates with max 2 weeks’ notice.

• Ten or more years in an IT services or systems integration company with the majority of that time delivering to UK water companies or UK utilities with substantial water exposure.
• Hands-on delivery accountability as a programme manager, delivery lead, engagement manager, solution architect or domain consultant on at least two of: data platform and analytics; enterprise asset management (Maximo, SAP or Ellipse); customer, billing and CRM; GIS and mobile workforce; cloud migration and IT operations; integration and application modernisation.
• Water sector fluency. Working knowledge of the price review and AMP cycle, performance commitments and outcome delivery incentives, C-MeX, the roles of Ofwat, the Environment Agency and the DWI, and the move to a single integrated regulator, and what these mean for a water company's technology priorities and investment timing.
• Knows the audience. Has worked directly with water company CIOs, Heads of Enterprise Architecture, Heads of Data, IT Operations leaders and IT procurement, and understands how they evaluate and govern suppliers.
• Bid experience from the supplier side. Has authored, reviewed or led responses to water or utilities technology tenders and can point to outcomes.
• Clear writing and confident challenge. Writes crisply in UK English and is willing to challenge a solution design or a client assumption, constructively.
• Willing to travel to client sites across England, and occasionally Scotland and Wales.

• Time spent inside a water company IT or digital function as an embedded architect, programme lead or secondee.
• Experience on major water transformation programmes such as billing replacement, EAM consolidation, smart metering or data platform build.
• Exposure to energy networks (RIIO), the non-household water retail market (MOSL)
• TOGAF, SAFe, MSP or equivalent delivery and architecture credentials.