Solution Consultant

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

The Solution Consultant role supports the development of strong technical, functional, user experience (UX) and consulting skills ensuring you become central to solution delivery. You will work closely with Solution Architects, Consultant Engineers, Product Owners and Software Engineers and work directly with customers to fully develop solution requirements

The role sits within our global business area Intelligence. We use digital intelligence and deep human knowledge to create products and solutions in a holistic way. We empower our clients with agile, data-driven insights and technologies that complement our sustainable design, engineering, and advisory expertise. We can confidently work in partnership to address global challenges from climate change and rapid urbanization, to increasing digitalization, socio-economic disruption, and societal expectations head-on, all with the common goal of improving quality of life.

Role accountabilities:

• Implementing software requirements, configuring and developing solutions involving desktop, mobile, integration and reporting components.
• Analysing and implementing the best user experience for our customers developing and aligning software role requirements to functional use of our product(s) UI (desktop and mobile), BI dashboards and reports.
• Developing strong relationships with our customers stakeholders to help identify and analyse requirements and produce user stories
• Ensure that our industry solutions incorporate EAM best practices whilst balancing design thinking and functionality
• Build demos, develop data sets, create digital learning content and help enrich the overall user experience for our customers

Qualifications & Experience:

Our ideal candidate will have worked previously with SaaS solutions, demonstrate great communication skills and have a strong desire to build amazing solutions to delight our customers.

Must-haves:

• Demonstrable experience configuring a SaaS solution
• Very strong communication and presentation skills
• Exposure to programming and familiarity with basic language constructs
• Expert understanding of how business processes, technology and people are integral to the perceived value of a software solution
• Previous experience using different types of application infrastructure types; cloud, on premise, PaaS (AWS, Azure)
• Good SQL understanding using of these RDBMS: DB2, Oracle and SQL Server
• Good understanding of the SDLC including Agile methodologies (SCRUM, SAFe)
• Solid understanding of the role of the different components within a N-Tier Application Infrastructure; Web, Application and Database Servers.
• Experience extracting, translating and transforming data as part of an EAM implementation
• Good understanding of how communication between Applications and web services, their underlying principles and protocols (APIs; REST, SOAP, JSON, HTTPS, etc)
• Good understanding of DevOps and Continuous Integration technologies

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience working on a similar software solution
• Experience working in the rail industry or other asset intensive, safety-critical
• Experience or knowledge of GIS / spatial / linear modelling system design
• Good understanding of networking principles (DNS, TCP-IP, Routing, VPN)
• Good understanding of a J2EE application stack
• environment
• Good knowledge of an EAM Solution e.g. Maximo or Infor
• Strong knowledge of Agile, Scrum and ITIL

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.