Business Application Consultant

A Business Application Consultant requires strong application expertise and ability to work collaboratively with different teams to ensure that the application requirements are appropriately specified, documented and delivered. A Business Application Consultant will provide thought leadership to Clients about the application business domain, and may include application training, mentoring and application acceptance testing.

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Applies background to marketplace, prospect and customer initiatives including focus on one or more of (A) presales activities, (B) post-sales delivery activities, or (C) a hybrid of both presales and post-sales activities. These may include for example:
  • Generates internal and external marketplace awareness and works with account teams to help develop interest in application(s) and Teradata's design and implementation expertise.
  • Supports specific applications solutions sales motions including discussions, demonstrations and presentations.
  • Assists in the definition of required solution components.
  • Participates in (or may own) proof of concept and benchmarking to prove the viability of new solutions to clients; scoping and estimating; and in post-sales delivery of specific requirements, solution and detailed design, development, and testing of installations/configurations, implementations, and upgrades
  • Provides leadership in utilizing a defined application methodology to integrate the application into the customer environment.
• Thought leadership to Clients about the application business domain
• Hands on leading the delivery of application training, mentoring, and application acceptance testing.
• Support/guide user acceptance criteria for each application.
• Will participate in detailed design and development phases of implementations by providing expertise and guidance, but typically will not be responsible for delivering the design / development activities.
• Utilizes existing collateral, artefacts, and best practices and helps harvest / capture new materials and promotes their use.
• All consultants are expected to build value in themselves. Teradata extensive library of both instructor led, and web-based training provides ample opportunity for the consultant to build and maintain marketable skills. Time has been allocated specifically for this task and each consultant is expected to have a 'Learning Plan'. Progress against the learning plan is part of the annual appraisal.
• All consultants are expected to build value in their practice through the contribution and reuse of consulting assets. After each assigned project, a consultant is expected to evaluate the project deliverables and to contribute those items that may be useful to other consultants that may be assigned similar projects. When a new project is assigned, the consultant will search the asset repository for assets that may improve or accelerate the project delivery.

Technical Skills

• Enthusiasm, passion and interest in data analytics and applications.
• In depth knowledge of application architecture and application business value.
• In depth knowledge of, and skill in, the integration of relevant applications, for example supply chain and / or customer journey.
• Skill / knowledge of relevant applications, business value, and the business domain including industry experience in supported industries.
• Experience with application solutions, preferably Teradata, and appreciation of security and operating systems.
• Knowledge of software delivery methodologies.
• Knowledge of business application solutions and integration within an ecosystem.
• Knowledge of applications, such as campaign management, demand chain management, and analytics which can be driven from these applications.

 Consulting Skills

• Strong client interaction, communication, and consulting skills.
• Ability to take initiative and self-motivate.
• Quickly adapt in a fast pace environment.