Senior Principal Consultant; Water Domain and Solutions Lead Job Birmingham area,England UK,IT/Tech

Position: Senior Principal Consultant (Water Domain and Solutions Lead)
Summary

Role: Senior Principal Consultant (Water Domain and Solutions Lead)
Work Type: Hybrid (2 to 3 days/week)
Duration: 6+ Months contract with possibility of extension
Location: North of England or Midlands (Leeds, Manchester or Birmingham preferred) with UK travel to client sites

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

About the role

We are growing our UK utilities business, anchored in water. We deliver cloud, data, application, and IT operations programmes for water companies and are pursuing further opportunities in data platforms, AI, and IT operations across the sector. We are investing in a senior practitioner with a decade of experience delivering technology programmes to water companies from an IT services or systems integration background.
You will be the water and utilities domain authority across our bids, solutions and client conversations. You will read a tender response and know whether a water company's IT and procurement evaluators will believe it. You will work with our Data and AI, Digital and Software, Cloud and Infrastructure, Digital IT Operations and Enterprise Platform teams to shape their capability around the problems a water company CIO, Head of Enterprise Architecture, Head of Data or Head of IT Operations actually has.

And you will sit in front of those clients as someone who has delivered their kind of programme before.
This is a delivery practitioner role for someone from the IT services industry. It is not a water company operations role and not a management consulting role.

What you will do Solution contextualisation

Work with us service lines to shape offerings around water use cases: leakage and pressure analytics, pollution and storm overflow monitoring, asset health modelling, capital programme systems, customer contact and billing, regulatory reporting, and IT operations for a 24x7 operational estate.
Own the water application landscape view (EAM, work and field management, GIS, telemetry and SCADA, hydraulic modelling, billing and CRM, data platforms), how these integrate, and where the sector's data and integration pain points sit.
Act as the domain authority in solution reviews and translate regulatory change (PR24, the single integrated regulator, asset management maturity, AMP9) into technology implications.

Client engagement and delivery

Lead discovery workshops and executive conversations with water company technology leaders and programme directors.
Join delivery engagements as the water domain lead, providing sector assurance to solution architects, data engineers, programme managers and offshore teams.
Bring an insider's view of how water company IT functions buy, govern and measure suppliers, including framework procurement and the AMP investment cycle.

Practice building

Develop our water points of view, thought leadership and presence at sector events such as Digi Gov, Utility Week Live, Institute of Water and British Water.
Build reusable water assets (use-case library, landscape maps, regulatory calendar, win themes) and upskill UK account and offshore delivery teams on water sector fundamentals.

What we are looking for Essential

Ten or more years in an IT services or systems integration company with the majority of that time delivering to 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;…