Alfa has a number of opportunities in smart, diverse and growing teams working in a product-led software delivery company. You will be using leading-edge technologies to deliver our flagship software platform, Alfa Systems, to Alfa’s customers in all areas of the asset finance industry across the globe. You will combine consultancy and technical skills to define and implement innovative solutions to our client’s exacting requirements using a broad range of technologies and tools.

About Alfa

With over 30 current customers and 26 countries served, Alfa has been developing Alfa Systems and delivering successful projects since 1990, and is expanding rapidly throughout Europe, North America, Australasia and beyond. We listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2017.

Our customers range from small ticket, highly automated vehicle finance companies, to big ticket, complex contract equipment finance lessors. Alfa Systems administers both retail and corporate business, from point of sale, through originations, to contract management and remarketing, in many regions, languages and currencies. Some customers want a turnkey solution that does almost everything, whereas others are large enterprises that have complex integration requirements. All customers want a high-quality solution that can be deployed with minimal risk.

We support your professional growth through training, flexibility in career paths and a culture of ongoing learning and continuous improvement. We have an active innovation community and provide time for our people to pursue their own ideas, as well as hackathons and innovation afternoons. We do all of this with a strong focus on a healthy work-life balance too.

Purpose

Alfa offers a wide spectrum of roles, including solution architecture, development management and implementation. You will work effectively as part of a team, implementing our leading software at banks and finance companies. The job involves working with Alfa colleagues, customers and implementation partners to see challenges through from start-to-finish.

Overview

The Technical Solution Consultant is responsible for technical consulting and configuration of the Alfa Systems software with our customers. 

This individual will lead on technical implementation components of implementation, from design, configuration, to testing and integration. This role encompasses client meetings, solutions documentation and platform configuration. 

Responsibilities

Your specific responsibilities will depend on your role and your experience on joining Alfa. Activities as a Technical Solution Consultant typically include:

• Consult with clients to gather business and technical requirements through onsite and remote meetings

• Align requirements to product functionality, offering best practice and scalable solutions along the way

• Supporting customer configuration of the Alfa Systems’ platform to meet their business requirements

• Interact with diverse client IT teams on various technical topics such as system integration 

• Provide technical design consulting for API-based integrations

• Collaborate with colleagues across Alfa to foster a team-oriented, customer-focused environment

• Supervising, mentoring and coaching more junior colleagues and implementation partners

• Managing the application release processes both internally and with the customer alongside supporting Alfa’s hosting service which deploys our solution securely in the AWS public cloud

• Delivering training to clients, colleagues and implementation partners

• Pre-sales support delivering proofs of concepts and responding to functional & technical elements of RFIs/RFPs

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of related IT transformation project delivery experience 

• Experience with configuring and implementing software applications

• Problem-solving aptitude and good analysis skills

• Ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience

• Broad technical awareness

• Demonstrated flexibility, adaptability and drive

• Strong attention to detail

• Commitment to knowledge sharing

• Basic experience with coding in Java or other object oriented language (such as Python, JavaScript, C#, Go, Rust) desirable, to aid solution design and troubleshooting

What we’ll do for you:

• 33 days’ annual leave (incl. 9 public holidays/cultural days) and the possibility to buy up to 10 more days a year
• Flexible work - hybrid or remote work with modern workspaces available
• Health, Dental and Vision insurance with reimbursement of copays/coinsurance/deductibles for in-network medical costs
• Fully paid-for life, disability and travel insurances
• Gym and Wellness Scheme through Gympass with access to a range of studios, gyms and wellbeing apps
• 401k plan - matching at 100% of the first 6% contributed (immediately vested)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with 24/7 crisis support
• 3 paid volunteering days as well as 5 paid learning and development days
• Fun social events throughout the year and annual Company Conferences

Career Development

As a Technical Solution Consultant you will be joining the Solution Architecture career path at Alfa. Our mission is to cultivate a community of solution architects dedicated to delivering high-quality, maintainable solutions, while continually simplifying our processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness. The solution architects in our community, hailing from business transformation or programming backgrounds, are adept in using the most appropriate technologies to tackle complex problems. 

We are committed to fostering personal and professional growth. Your development is guided by a more senior solution architect, highlighting roles and opportunities to enable development as you progress through the career path.

Our Culture

Our culture is vibrant, innovative and diverse, and we are proud of it. Ours is a close-knit community. Alfa employees are an eclectic mix and all are creative, talented and hardworking. We think it is important to build close working relationships within our company, so we hold numerous team events and conferences that bring us together for socialising and team building. We all enjoy the work-life balance and the great culture, with plenty of social activities organised by the company.

Compensation Information:

• Base salary range: USD [$130,000] to [$150,000] annually, in compliance with state and local regulations

• In addition to cash compensation, Alfa employees are eligible to participate in our Profit Share bonus scheme (after 6 months of service) and our Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).

• Individual compensation is determined on various factors including market data, experience, qualifications and internal job equity.

There is no application deadline at this time.

Alfa Financial Software Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all

employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and

harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex,

national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual

orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected

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