Junior Consultant

JR United Kingdom; England; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in London seeks a Junior Consultant to contribute to various client projects involving performance testing and IT capacity management. This role offers a unique opportunity for recent graduates to develop their skills in a collaborative environment while addressing business-critical IT issues. Responsibilities include analyzing data and liaising with clients, with ample support for career development.

Benefits

Supportive and collaborative culture

Increased responsibility with experience

Qualifications

• Recent graduates with computing/science/engineering degrees or related disciplines.
• Proficient in advanced Excel for data analysis.
• Knowledge of performance testing tools like JMeter or LoadRunner valued.

Responsibilities

• Designing performance test plans and monitoring system performance.
• Collaborating with clients and project teams on technical work.
• Identifying opportunities for improvement in project delivery.

Skills

Data analysis

Problem solving

Communication

Flexibility

Empathy

Education

2.1 bachelors or advanced degree in computing, science, engineering or maths

Desire and aptitude to work in tech

Tools

Microsoft Excel

JMeter

LoadRunner

GitHub

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Base salary up to circa £35k depending on experience

Location: Hybrid. You can work from wherever you prefer, though you must be able to travel to our Chancery Lane/Farringdon Central London office or client sites (London) as required – 1-2 days per week indicatively

This role is ideal for ambitious and curious fresh graduates of bachelors and postgraduate degrees, and graduates with some professional work experience

About Capacitas

Founded in 2002 and based in London, Capacitas is the only consulting firm specialising exclusively in reducing cost and performance risk in business-critical IT systems:

• We are thought‐leaders and trusted advisors in IT Performance Assurance
• We have a unique methodology that strikes the balance between service, risk and cost
• We have extensive experience protecting high revenue, high availability clients
• We invest in R&D - developing solutions to enable fast, efficient and scalable delivery

At Capacitas we know what great performance looks like for our clients and their customers. We enable our client’s IT systems to be available, fast and cost efficient without slowing their rate of business change. Our clients include – JD Sports, easyJet, Domino’s Pizza, Skype, and many more

To hear more about us and what we do for our clients visit our website: https://www.capacitas.co.uk/

Role overview

As a Junior Consultant with Capacitas, you will work as part of a project team with experienced and talented colleagues, delivering work for our clients. The range of projects you work on will vary according to current demand and your professional development needs. Typical projects include:

• Designing performance test plans to address performance risk
• Demand forecasting / planning
• Development of capacity and performance models
• Proactive system monitoring to identify performance risks

You will report to your line manager and your career development will be supported by the Talent department.

A day in the life of a Junior Consultant involves

• Updating your project team and being updated in daily stand-up meetings
• Working independently on technical work to support project delivery, such as running performance tests or scripting (among many other possibilities)
• Liaising with contacts at client companies at all levels (from junior to senior), building relationships with customers
• Making recommendations for clients and for your project team
• Identifying new opportunities to work with clients and optimising solutions for our engagements
• Participating in internal meetings with colleagues in the Development team
• Participation in internal meetings with the innovation or talent team, working on our development and growth as a company
• As you become more experienced, you will become responsible for developing others and start to lead parts of project delivery

About you

To thrive as a Junior Consultant with Capacitas, it’s important you...

Are motivated by:

• An inherent desire to work in tech
• An inherent desire to add value to and satisfy clients
• An inherent desire to continuously learn and grow
• Working in a collaborative environment in which you support and are supported by others

Show the following behaviours:

• Manage time and priorities in order to meet deadlines
• Engage with and confidently approach other people, demonstrating empathy and emotional intelligence in interpersonal interactions to build productive working relationships
• Demonstrate proactivity, spotting opportunities for improvement and suggest/implement improvements of your own accord
• Demonstrate flexibility and adaptability in response to changing conditions/priorities
• Demonstrate resilience and persistence in the face of challenges and when learning new skills, seeing setbacks as a positive opportunity for growth
• Confidence to challenge the status quo

Have the following abilities:

• Able to use excel for data analysis to an advanced level, or aptitude and willingness to learn more advanced Excel skills readily
• Able to understand IT infrastructure
• Able to communicate effectively, in particular the ability to convey the right amount of information in the appropriate style fitting to different audiences
• Problem solving mentality and approach
• Numerical and data analysis skills, including the ability to spot and interpret trends
• Ability to understand customer requirements and business objectives
• Able to work effectively as part of a team and independently

Qualifications and knowledge:

• 2.1 bachelors or advanced degree in computing, science, engineering or maths; OR
• 2.1 bachelors or advanced degree from any discipline + demonstrated desire and aptitude to work in tech
• Knowledge of the Microsoft office suite, particularly Excel, is essential
• Knowledge of any of the below would be beneficial though not essential
• Windows or Unix/Linux operating systems (to basic level)
• Understanding of the principles of ICT capacity and performance management
• Understanding of Queuing Theory
• Understanding of Regression Analysis
• Principles of Risk Management
• Performance testing skills
• Experience with Jmeter or LoadRunner performance testing tool packages
• Java, C#/.NET, or Python
• SQL
• Experience with RDMS systems e.g. MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle

Technical tools you may use as a Junior Consultant

• Cost-explorer
• Cloudwatch
• APIs (further performance metrics)
• Monitoring tools for CPU
• PRTG
• MatLab
• GitHub
• J-Meter
• Gatling
• Scripting and coding software

The things our Junior Consultants most like about their job

• Lots of responsibility
• Working with people, as well as tech
• Plenty of responsibility, which increases as you are ready for it
• Our supportive, collaborative and empowering culture

If this sounds like something you might be interested in then we want to hear from you!