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IT Application Specialist

Head Resourcing are looking for an IT Application Specialist for a financial services company based in Glasgow. The role pays up to £48k and is based in Glasgow 2 days per week.

The role involves working as part of the development team reporting into the Application Specialist Lead. The Application Specialist will have a focus on the delivery of Sonata and Application Support within Scottish Friendly.

The position will be responsible for the analysis, design and implementation of Sonata specific developments that require updates to existing and new configurations/workflows to support business critical projects and functions.

Key responsibilities

Support Analysts in requirements-gathering, analysis, solution design and process modelling of new projects within the business
Problem solves solutions for new project developments using Sonata
Design and develop workflow models within Sonata to support new and existing business processes
Configure Sonata across the life and wealth sides of the software as required to support new and existing business processes
Debug workflow failures
Provide Application Support to the business
Be responsible along with other team members for Sonata Source of Truth (SOT) environment including production SOT deployments out of hours

Qualifications and skills

Initiative and problem-solving skills, being able to work through a problem, try different solutions
Excellent SFA business knowledge of Life/Pensions/Investment products
Experience of regulatory projects within Life/Pensions
Experience of working with Sonata or another pensions policy admin tool
Awareness/experience of workflow solutions
Experience of working with MGM Talisman (desirable)
Knowledge T-SQL/P-SQL (not essential)