Principal Consultant

Bravura’s Commitment and Mission

At Bravura Solutions, collaboration, diversity and excellence matter. We value your ideas, giving you room to be curious and innovate in an exciting, fast-paced, and flexible environment. We look for many different skills and abilities, as well as how you can add value to Bravura and our culture.

At Bravura Solutions, collaboration, diversity and excellence matter. We value your ideas, giving you room to be curious and innovate in an exciting, fast-paced, and flexible environment. We look for many different skills and abilities, as well as how you can add value to Bravura and our culture. As a Global Fin Tech market leader and ASX listed company, Bravura is a trusted partner to over 350 leading financial services clients, delivering wealth management technology and products.

We invest significantly in our technology hubs and innovation labs, which inspire and drive our creative, future-focused mindset. We take pride in developing cutting-edge, digital first technology solutions that support our clients to achieve financial security and prosperity for their customers.

The Principal Consultant is a core member of a layered, multi-disciplinary team responsible for designing, developing, testing and implementing a business solution. As the Principal Consultant, you will be accountable for the delivery and quality of all consulting assignments throughout the implementation lifecycle. The Principal Consultant will support the client’s product proposition and operating model throughout the implementation of the Sonata software package.

Part of your role as a Principal Consultant will be to mentor Senior Consultants and Business Consultants as well as own objective setting and performance feedback.

• Define the scope of the project, understanding the client’s business operating model to fit with Sonata.
• Influencing our clients to shape their requirements to match 'out of the box' functionality provided by Sonata.
• Validate client requirements, challenging where necessary to ensure clarity of business drivers, plus appropriate balance of cost/benefit and adopt/adapt.
• Ensure that the proposed solution aligns to the objectives and success criteria for the project.
• All business consulting documentation to be reviewed and approved by the Principal Consultant, ensuring high quality documentation.
• Pioneer and ensure appropriate use of, and adherence to Bravura processes and templates for all Consultant activities within the applicable projects and initiatives.
• Where necessary, author documentation and support triage.
• Use agile methodologies where appropriate, and support use of UML (structured use case specs) as a methodology.
• Ensure adherence to Business Consulting quality gates and readiness of specifications for build.
• Where necessary, handover requirements to Design and Build phase of project.
• Ratify the project’s estimates of effort; ensuring the estimates are joined up, accurate and the work is delivered within the agreed commercials.
• Verify that the various project phases are well-aligned and that participants understand the goals and deliverables. Provide guidance to the project management team in determining and ratifying scope change.
• Will have accountability for the overall quality of the delivered solution, advising clients on Sonata best practice.
• Ensuring project retrospective improvements highlighted for the consulting team are implemented.
• Ownership and proactive management of the quality and performance of all consultants under your remit.
• Setting of objectives and ownership of performance feedback for business consultants assigned to you.
• Assist in allocation of consultants to consultancy tasks including managing Consultant day-to-day activities, providing guidance on requirement elaboration, solution design and triage.
• Proactively promote, facilitate, and lead training and knowledge transfer across the Consulting team.
• Work with the project manager and solution architect to support overall delivery of the project.

• Build and maintain in-depth understanding of the products and propositions operated by current and prospective clients including knowledge of applicable industry regulations.
• Support engagement with both current and prospective clients through providing clear and effective presentation of system capabilities within SME scope, and their applicability to client propositions and requirements.