Senior Consultant, Technical Architecture

How we serve clients  Companies often struggle to get the results from technology that we know are possible.  Well-implemented technology can be world changing. It removes waste and makes us better at what we do.  Our mission is to help others achieve the true benefit that technology can offer and increase business success and value. We are a leader in Europe helping businesses backed by private equity and venture capital to achieve their growth plans through technology.  This is achieved through our excellence at understanding how to improve a technology function to deliver business value – and then assisting the company to deliver those improvements. Our strengths include bespoke software development, system architecture, technology strategy, change management, data science, machine learning and cloud platform engineering.   In 2023, Intechnica joined forces with U.S.-based Crosslake Technologies, a solutions-driven, global tech advisory firm serving private equity investors and their portfolio companies with technology due diligence, digital transformation strategy, technology value optimization and executive leadership focused on growing enterprise value through technology.   Our core values  We have a hard working and professional culture but believe in having fun. We look for people who align with our values.  We are a team: we believe that effective teamwork is the key to successful delivery. We are determined: we do not let obstacles stand in our way and strive to deliver positive change. We are open and flexible: we listen to others and are prepared to change our views. We learn and teach: we strive to be as good as we can and to be effective at developing others. We create value: we help our clients and colleagues grow and succeed.  Intechnica, a Crosslake company, is a diverse organisation and proud of it. What unites us is our belief that technology makes a difference.  About Crosslake  Crosslake originated in 2010 to become the world’s most relevant firm for technology investors and management teams looking to buy, build and run technology that creates value. Our unmatched practitioner community of former CTOs, CIOs, architects and engineers guides actionable, business-focused technology decisions – underscored by objective TechIndicators® from our proprietary dataset of 4,000+ prior tech M&A transactions. In-house delivery teams bring strategic value creation initiatives to life, with solutions for bespoke software and technology to enable business transformation, and cyber solutions to address security weaknesses and risks in software and code quality. It’s clear why Crosslake is the firm investors rely upon to make technology make a difference. Learn more at: www.crosslaketech.com   The Role  You will join our Professional Services team based out of our Manchester office, providing general technology expertise, consulting advice and technical delivery across a wide range of clients and industry sectors.   As a Senior Technical Architect/Consultant you will a focal point for everything technical on our Due Diligence projects.  Working closely with senior client stakeholders to understand their technology estates, auditing good practice, assessing systems (applications & infrastructure), people capability and processes and advising on risks, improvement opportunities and then help in delivering change.  You will be involved at all stages of the client lifecycle, from pre-sales to delivery ensuring that all client requests are delivered in an efficient way. Our technical architects are trusted advisors to our clients and your expertise will contribute to the development of their business.  There are further opportunities to work on delivery projects in collaboration with our internal development team and senior client stakeholders, understanding the technology needs, designing and owning the technical solution (software and physical architecture) and helping ensure the technical quality of the solution being built.  Mentoring more junior technical architects in their due diligence and delivery activities, along the way.

Essential Skills

• Strong Previous working experience as either aTechnical Architect or Head of Engineering. 
• Past experience in building bespoke software solutions and/or the considerations involved in doing so. 
• Exposure to any of the following technologies: .NET, Java, PHP, Angular, VueJS, React, Python, Go and Typescript. 
• Proven experience working in Agile development environments (Scrum and Kanban) 
• Strong knowledge of Cloud Technologies (ideally AWS or Azure) and contemporary configuration management, containerisation/orchestration, build and deployments (CI/CD) 
• You’ll have prior senior consulting and/or sales experience at some points in your career, and also familiarity and comfort working in smaller, dynamic organisations and relish the opportunity to help drive business growth 
• Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills and strong verbal and written communication skills including presentation skills (MS Visio, MS PowerPoint). 
• Work collaboratively but very hands-on within the team in order to deliver efficiently 
• Senior Stakeholder Management skills 
• Ability to practically apply your technical expertise and industry best practice to implement change for clients, typically involving some or all of:planning and overseeing agile software delivery, development process improvement, architecture redesign, roadmap review 
• Be commercially minded and display a natural instinct to identify and then develop new sales opportunities wherever there is value for the client and Crosslake, following through to lead on pre-sales activities and new proposals. 

Desirable Skills

• Relish working in a fast-paced environment with exposure to a wide variety of technologies and different organisations, industries and cultures. You’ll have the opportunity to influence and develop your career in the way that interests you. 
• Hands-on experience with any of the following technologies: .NET, Java, PHP, Angular, VueJS, React, Python, Go and Typescript. 
• Exposure to or hands-on experience with any of the following technologies: Terraform, Bicep, Puppet, Ansible, Pulumi, Chef. 
• An interest in being part of technical strategy meetings 
• Broad Industry experience. 
• Knowledge of private-equity-backed businesses would be considered an asset but not essential. 
• Broad understanding of technology categories and packages and first-hand experience in a number of the following: eCommerce, CMS, AdTech, Workflow, Databases, CRM, BI, Order Management, Security, Warehouse and Inventory Management. 
• Possess first class account management and consultative skills at CxO level, being adept at communicating recommendations, highlighting risks and also flagging new opportunities with professionalism and integrity. 
• Demonstrable examples of where you’ve led technology programmes and projects, such as technology strategy creation, overseeing platform re-engineering or migrations, transformation programmes, vendor / package selection