Job description

Functional Consultant

Salary: competitive depending upon experience + benefits

Where the job is based: (home-based, working with Kerv Digital office/customer site visits as required) UK HQ, Seven House, 18 High Street, Longbridge, B31 2UQ

Who we are:

Kerv Digital (previously known as cloudThing) solve complicated problems with great digital experiences. We combine Power Platform, DevSecOps, Data Science and Software Engineering to achieve measurable business outcomes for our clients. Headquartered in Birmingham and part of Kerv, we are part of a £50m revenue global organisation, with over 450 employees, working with over 800 sector-leading clients, with offices in London, Birmingham, and Bangalore.

Kerv is an ethically led organisation, and we are proud of our values. Our mission to Build Future and make a positive difference in society helps guide us to choose to work primarily with Nonprofit and Public Sector organisations. We encourage all our teams to embrace the latest technologies, frameworks, and cloud deployment platforms to help our clients achieve more. We relish the difficult problems and integration challenges and guarantee our teams are never bored.

We are proud to be certified as a Great Place to Work by independent assessors in both the UK and India. We can offer you an inclusive, collaborative atmosphere to develop your skills as part of a global multi-discipline development team with opportunities to be mentored by forward-thinking, highly skilled and experienced individuals.

Join us today to work closely with household name clients, build your technical prowess, and make new friends along the way

Responsibilities:

You’ll probably need to demonstrate at least some experience with;

• Pre-sales engagement including technology evangelism, demonstration, adoption and other early opportunity activities such as bid-response writing
• Requirements gathering, writing and evolution through business process identification, analysis and re-engineering
• Functional analysis including effective business architecture and appreciation of the cyclical approach to solution identification
• Understanding the capabilities (and limitations) provided by Dynamics 365 CE out of the box, from form design to solution management
• Understanding the capabilities available using out of the box connectors and integrations in the Microsoft Business Systems platform
• Implementing business and technical environment change safely and effectively, with the support of the Solution Architects and the Project Office
• Creating clear and effective documentation across multiple channels
• Using a hands-on approach to ensuring timescales are met
• Environment setup and configuration
• Training end users and admins in the use of Dynamics 365 CE and linked systems (such as Power BI, Power Apps, Flow)
• Other tasks as reasonably requested

Required Skills:

• Dynamics 365 CE customisation and configuration
• Any experience with MSE or other Dynamics ecosystem technologies
• Microsoft certifications, e.g. multiple MCPs or an MCSE
• Understanding the Microsoft Dynamics product portfolio and its licensing

Desirable Skills:

Candidates are expected to have some of the following skills;

• Agile development methodologies, esp. Scrum
• Development in C# and JS to extend CRM
• Office 365 Management, esp. Exchange and SharePoint/365 Groups
• Office 365 portfolio implementation inc. AzureAD
• Source control appreciation, esp. GIT

We’re also looking for people that fit how we work, which is something like;

• happiest working under their own direction, but fully supported when needed
• an obvious attention to detail, we want you to obsess about the little things!
• ability to identify and pick up new processes and software platforms quickly
• ability to work effectively with remote teams in India
• ability to work flexibly to deliver on-time to tight timescales

What we can do for you:

We’re a transparent, honest and fiercely equal employer that believes completely in providing the best possible work experience for our employee’s:

• Real Flexibility – we’re a family first organisation, and if the work gets done, you can work when and wherever you want. A healthy approach for most of our teams seems to be splitting three ways between home, customer sites and the office.
• Awesome Environment – all of our employee’s will tell you that we foster an easy going environment, are experts at what we do and care deeply about what we work on – that’s in large part because we’re privately owned by those that work day-to-day in the business, and the company was started specifically to find a way for people to take more enjoyment from their work.
• Interesting Work – these days most of our customers are household names and many of our projects have an important impact on the world around us. The kind of things we do regularly include working with not-for-profits to transform how they leverage technology, working with public bodies to shape digital services and working with top tier private entities to bring genuinely new and meaningful products and services to market.
• Great Benefits – all the usual suspects and then some. Some highlights include our choose-your-own tech approach to end-user devices, well stocked cupboards with tasty goodies (we’re a food first company too), excellent professional development support including frequent in-house training for tech. you can’t get trained on anywhere else and private healthcare. Full disclosure; some benefits can only be provided after probation.
• Recognition & Growth – Certified as a Great Place to Work by independent assessors in both the UK and India and we’ve just entered the Sunday Times Tech Track 100, which charts the top 100 fastest growing tech. companies in the country; we know we achieved this directly through the people we choose to work with.

Don’t take our word for it though, check out our impartial Glass Door reviews

More on equality:

At Kerv, we’re building something special and we’re building it to last. We want everybody to feel valued, included and love working together. With an uncompromising pursuit of amazing employee experience, we always strive to do the right thing. We believe and will relentlessly promote and support the power of diversity, equality and belonging, through collaboration and creating exceptional solutions together.

*Please note: By submitting an application you agree to Kerv Digital’s recruitment policy*

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £50,000.00-£60,000.00 per year

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person