Python Job: Tech Analyst

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Company

Grant Thornton

Location

Dublin - Ireland

Job type

Full-Time

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Tech Analyst
Grant Thornton (“GT”) is Ireland’s fastest growing professional services firm with over 2,400 people in Ireland, across seven offices. GT is more than auditors and accountants - we advise clients on strategy, operating models, cyber security, digital transformations, forensic investigations and many more services. Clients choose GT because of our people, our innovative approach and our consistently high standards.
The Team
Our Internal Change and Transformation Team support our Managing Partner and Management Committee on a wide range of strategy, innovation, data and tech projects. Our mission is simple – we want to make GT a great place to work for all our employees. We connect the dots between business units, looking for opportunities to help the firm operate faster and smarter.
Role Summary
New technologies and disruptive change are creating exciting opportunities: to work differently, to work better and to find new ways of creating value. This newly created Tech Analyst role will focus on applying these new technologies to the firm’s internal processes. It might suit you if you are an experienced Tech Analyst currently working in a large consultancy team. You will have the opportunity to apply your skills in a highly visible internal team and will influence the firm’s long-term digital transformation journey.
Responsibilities
  • Provide advice on how technology can solve business problems and achieve goals
  • Become the go-to person for new products and software available in the market
  • Identify opportunities to upgrade, simplify, or reuse existing technology landscapes
  • Work with internal stakeholders to document business pain-points and create high-quality processes maps, gaps and opportunities
  • Work with implementation partners to integrate software solutions into the overall GT landscape and embedded into business processes
  • Lead user requirements workshops, providing challenge to the users to ensure the requirements meet desired business outcomes
  • Partner with technical delivery teams to translate business requirements into well designed technical solutions, ensuring the end-state solution matches the business requirements
  • Cost vs. benefit analysis and vendor selection for implementing new technology solutions
  • Design and implement testing and training plans
  • Work with the business to ensure a smooth transition from dev to production
Core Skills
  • Can clearly communicate ideas to both technical stakeholders and business end users
  • Experience gathering, defining and documenting business requirements for the enhancement, replacement, or introduction of IT systems
  • Experience analysing systems and procedures, process design, and documenting ‘As is’ and ‘To be’ assessments for a Target Operating Model
  • Knowledge of the full Software Development Life Cycle
  • Experience of several technology areas including but not limited to: third party vendor integrations, ERP, CRM, MS Dynamics, MS environment, data integrations, RPA.
  • Experience in the delivery of large-scale business/technology programmes
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Experience conducting workshops and interviews
  • Experience with Stakeholder Management and working collaboratively with Development and Testing teams to deliver high quality solutions that meet business needs
  • Experience in Waterfall and Agile methodologies, including the creation of User Stories
Qualifications / Experience
  • A strong academic record including a third level degree in an IT related area
  • 3+ years Tech Analysis experience, ideally coming from a large consulting house or large internal corporate environment
  • Experience with Visio or similar package for presenting complex ideas visually
  • Qualifications in Lean Six Sigma, PMP or Prince 2 a benefit, but not mandatory
  • Some basic understanding of development language a plus, but not essential (e.g. Python, SQL)
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