Application Specialist - Sonata

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)