Technical Test Consultant

Location: Bristol
Job Reference: 1305545
Role Grade: B1 - TLS

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About This Role

Summary of the role

Trainee Technical Consultants are members of the Technical Centre. They are expected to be experts in Pension and / or Life products, legislation, regulation, and to some extent the processes, systems and platforms used in the administration of our business (whilst supported by Technical Consultants for the most complex of issues). They will learn provide technical consultancy and support to staff, external clients and their advisers. They will also become proficient in providing  specialist technical support on a variety of Aviva, Diligenta or legislative/mandatory driven projects.

What you’ll be doing
  • Learn to address and resolve complex legislative, product, compliance and non-standard process queries - providing in the moment coaching or training as appropriate. Referrals will be dealt with over the phone, via e-mail or face to face
  • Learn to analyse referral trends, provide feedback and implement improvement activity to reduce queries by initiating process changes and/ or providing technical training
  • Gain proficiency in disseminating technical information (written and verbal communication) ensuring full understanding and onward cascade to those impacted
  • Develop to act as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for projects/Risk Events ensuring work undertaken is technically compliant and that risks are identified and raised in project risk registers
  • Become competent in assessing the impact of change(s) on Customer Service and facilitate necessary changes
  • Gain proficiency in the technical sign off of all project/Risk Event related outputs e.g. Business Requirement Documents (BRDs), procedure guides, test scripts, technical briefing material and Q&As etc
  • May be required to support TC – coordinating Technical Support involvement in projects across different business areas
  • Learn to support the Business Acceptance Testing team by providing technical knowledge of product and processes whilst completing testing before every BaNCS release
  • Complete post release verification and regression testing after every BaNCS release and provide updates on all aspects of testing results
  • Learn to provide technical consultancy and support to Customer Service in the resolution/ mitigation of risks and/ or introduction of controls e.g. closure of audit actions, compliance concerns, incidents and escalations, department specific risks / controls
  • Develop skills and behaviours as agreed with team manager in order to support improved performance going forward
  • Maintain and develop knowledge in area of specialism. Develop breadth of knowledge across other product and platform ranges
What we’re looking for
  • Technical Expertise – Life and/ or Pensions
  • Platforms – BaNCS
  • Communications skills – including ability to manage expectations, influence decisions, attain buy-in and effectively negotiate and compromise
  • Planning and organisation with ability to self-prioritise workload
  • Business awareness
  • Compliance and legislative awareness
  • Effective coaching and training skills
  • 5 years’ experience in Life and/or Pensions

The hiring manager to contact is: Stuart Patten Lawrence Email: Stuart.PattenLawrence@diligenta.co.uk

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