Senior Technical Consultant, UK Professional Services

Location: London
Role: Senior Technical Consultant, Professional Services
International Travel Requirement: 30% - 70%
Reference: 22.08

Summary:

Daon is seeking energetic senior consultants to work with Daon clients and partners in deploying identity assurance solutions. Applicants must have the willingness and desire to learn and apply new technology. The consultant will be responsible for assigned solution architecture, custom software design and development tasks to integrate Daon products into a complete identity assurance system. Tasks will also include product configuration and customization of Daon biometric products and applications. The candidate will ensure successful integration with 3rd party systems is achieved.

The consultants will have hands-on responsibility for implementation and on-site education of clients in the use and deployment of Daon products. Candidates must be willing and able to act autonomously under the direction of a project manager and/or other principal technical personnel. Candidates must be able to evangelize Daon's technology and offerings to prospective customers, both in educating prospects regarding biometrics, solution pros/cons, and general architecture advantages/disadvantages. Travel requirement: 30%+.

Daon is a leading provider of biometric identity assurance software, delivering proven identification and verification solutions to enterprises and system integrators enabling them to rapidly deploy mission critical identity management systems using biometrics technology.

Responsibilities:

• Derive product and software requirements from proposed system solutions
• Design, development, and deployment of customer solutions based on Daon products and technology
• Participate in the gathering of functional requirements
• Document design decisions and deliver all design collaterals
• Development (coding and unit testing) of various product artifacts as required using Web Services, .Net, Java, XML, and SQL technologies

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Strong interface design and development experience. In particular, experience of enterprise system integration issues (reliability, scalability, transactionality, security etc.)
• Deep specialist in either .NET OR Java technologies with strong working knowledge of the other.
• Strong development knowledge of enterprise relational databases (e.g. Oracle or DB2 Server)
• Experience with web servers and application servers such as IBM WebSphere, Apache Tomcat, and Oracle Application Server for Java specialists.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; demonstrated experience working with customers in customer environments
• Excellent business writing, communication, and presentation skills
• Highly Desirable: experience in information security, biometrics, PKI infrastructures and large government organizations is a major plus
• Highly Desirable: Exposure to OASIS XML standards (WSS, SAML.etc)

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, IT or related field.
• Minimum 5 - 7 years experience in a similar customer facing role
• Secret Clearance or higher (desired)