Technical Consultant - Poland

This is a great opportunity to join Aptitude as a Technical Consultant in Wrocław, working across multiple Aptitude products and supporting a diverse range of clients. You’ll gain exposure to different projects, technologies and client environments while working alongside experienced colleagues across the business.

You’ll have the opportunity to build your technical and consultancy skills, broaden your knowledge across the Aptitude product suite and take on increasing responsibility as you develop.

• You will be expected to follow best practices, as defined by senior colleagues, to ensure that the quality of our delivery and support is fit for purpose. With support from others, you will gain a good understanding of the Aptitude product(s) capabilities, liaising with project colleagues to match client requirements onto those capabilities. 

• A key part of your role is to proactively continue your own personal development (keeping yourself updated with relevant knowledge and skills) as well as developing your understanding of how to best approach project work. 

• You should be aligned to the evolving company culture and contribute towards internal communications as required. Delivery responsibilities may be performed on client premises and travel (in-country and/or overseas) may be required of you. Assure responsibilities will require time zone flexibility and the possibility of standby support during evenings, weekends, and holidays. 

What We Offer:

We’ll provide you with the opportunity to grow your expertise in an environment that supports you, your life and your career. 

We’ll also offer you a competitive salary plus profit-related bonus scheme, as well as the following benefits: 

• Private healthcare

• Life and disability insurance

• ShareSave scheme - ability to purchase company shares on preferential terms

• English language lessons during working hours

• Flexible working conditions and hybrid work model

• EAP

• Multisport card

• Free foreign travels insurance (for no work-related travels)

• Easter/ Christmas Funding

Where You Will Be:

This role is based from our Wrocław office and we support hybrid working 

To us at Aptitude, hybrid working means that our employees come together for 2-days per week at their local office. It’s an opportunity for our teams to collaborate, solve problems together and to be engaged and involved in the wider community of our business. 

The ideal candidate will have the following skills & experience: 

• Proven 3yrs of experience on similar position 

• Fluency in English (B2/C1) - technical vocabulary 

• Previous experience of hands-on experience of working with SQL and legacy products 

Consultancy 

• Rapidly gains a full understanding of the project stream that you are assigned to, understanding the tasks and timescales required 

• Takes responsibility for completing tasks to the required quality and seeking guidance where necessary 

• Seeks feedback on performance and contributes ideas to the team 

• Strives to expand personal knowledge and skill set as part of the assignment 

Technical 

• Demonstrates a broad understanding of ETL and RDBMS concepts and an evolving knowledge of the fundamentals of developing database-centric applications 

• Is recognised as a capable practitioner of the Aptitude Product(s) being used and with a broad knowledge of the complete suite of Aptitude Products 

• Enriches the skillset of the team with one or more peripheral disciplines such as UNIX shell scripting 

• Steers the development team to deliver to the required quality and time frames 

Software Development Life Cycle 

• Demonstrates a thorough understanding in the following disciplines: 

• Management of source code 

• Performing automated build and testing 

• Allocating development tasks in an agile setting 

Testing and Defect Resolution 

• Demonstrate an evidence-based approach to investigating & resolving defects 

• Ensures defect occurrences are minimized by developing effective unit-test strategies