Requirements Consultant
Mobility & Automation Requirements Consultant
Are you an experienced requirements consultant with a focus on technical projects looking to make a significant impact in a dynamic and ambitious environment?
Look no further than West Midlands Police’s IT&D Digital. The Requirements Consultant sits across the Mobility Competency Centre and the Centre for Applied Automation, contributing to developments that provide improved efficiency and effectiveness of the service to make a real difference to the people of the West Midlands.
West Midlands Police has, over the last few years, undergone a period of unparalleled change and innovation; our technology is pivotal to both maintaining operational capabilities and building future success as we develop our solutions even further. Continuously improving the effectiveness of our technologies will support the workforce and enable us to maximize benefits to our organisation and our region.
As a Requirements Consultant, you will work across teams within the Delivery Management function alongside a committed and enthusiastic group of colleagues. Throughout your role, you will collaborate with stakeholders across the service to formally document technical requirements. The scope of the role includes eliciting IT requirements prior to their handover to the development teams and tracking requirements throughout the project lifecycle. The Requirements Consultant role will also facilitate IT input into mandates and business cases progressed via the commissioning process.
Essential skills:
- Experience of collaborating with stakeholders (internally and externally) at all levels of seniority to understand new requirements and new demand.
- Excellent communication skills across Business, IT & Digital, and vendor stakeholders.
- Ability to capture and document both technical and end-user requirements.
- Ability to work across all levels of the IT & Digital Technical Delivery Lifecycle.
Desirable skills:
- Experience of documenting Solution Design Documents for Robotic Process Automation (RPA).
- Experience with UiPath RPA lifecycle tools.
- Experience of developing requirements for Android, Windows, and Progressive Web Applications.
- Experience with wireframing tools or similar prototyping solutions.
You can learn more about the work of the Mobility and Automation teams in the following Case Studies:
Working within the IT & Digital Team is rewarding; we offer the opportunity to work in a large organization where people can develop their skills, knowledge, and careers in an encouraging and flexible environment. Our benefits include:
- 28 days holiday (plus bank holidays) rising to 33 days after five years’ service.
- Access to a Corporate Health Cash Plan and wellbeing support services.
- Modern working environment in central Birmingham with established agile working practices using industry-leading remote working technology.
- Opportunity to save on travel costs through a Corporate Travel Scheme.
- Discounts across travel, parking, daily costs of living and leisure activities.
- A comprehensive wellbeing package including 24/7 support, free eye tests and flu jabs.
- Fair remuneration with progression opportunities and access to a very competitive pension scheme.
The application process involves a brief case study so you have the opportunity to demonstrate, rather than just tell us, your approach to RPA challenges, which will be followed by a competency interview.
Vetting: Successful applicants will be required to pass Management Vetting and Security Clearance scrutiny prior to commencing their role, this will include a full background & financial disclosure as part of the vetting process.
Medical: Appointment to this role will be dependent upon successfully medical checks, which may include a drugs test and if required a fitness test.
Prospective officers and staff must be held to a higher standard of behaviour and accountability than members of the public, and that therefore their right to privacy can be fettered in certain circumstances. This is to ensure that members of the police are fully aware and accountable for the unique powers entrusted to them and the standards of professional behaviour they swear to uphold.
West Midlands Police is a Disability Confident Leader - the highest level an organisation can achieve under the scheme run by the Department of Work and Pensions. As part of our commitment we operate a ‘Disability Confident Interview Scheme’ - all candidates who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be offered an interview.
It is important to note that there may be occasions where it is not practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people who meet the essential criteria for the job. For example: in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. In these circumstances, the employer could select the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job, as they would do for non-disabled applicants.
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