Smallworld Consultant
1 day ago
London
We are looking for a Functional Smallworld Consultant to support the delivery of complex geospatial solutions across major electrical utility projects in the UK and Europe. \n Duties & Requirements \n\n • Lead and support requirements gathering workshops with business users, technical teams and project stakeholders.\n, • Analyse operational, functional and technical requirements across electricity distribution and transmission projects.\n, • Translate business needs into clear functional requirements, user stories, process maps and solution specifications.\n, • Assess existing Smallworld processes, applications and data structures, identifying opportunities for improvement.\n, • Work closely with devs, architects, testers and project managers to ensure solutions meet agreed requirements.\n, • Act as the key functional link between client stakeholders and technical delivery teams.\n, • Support the design and configuration of Smallworld based solutions for electrical utility environments.\n, • Produce functional design documents, business requirements documents, use cases and acceptance criteria.\n, • Review proposed solutions to ensure they align with business processes, operational needs and industry best practice.\n, • Support data migration, data validation and data-quality activities where required.\n, • Assist with integrations between Smallworld and wider enterprise systems, including asset management, work management, outage management and network-modelling platforms.\n, • Support system upgrades, application enhancements and transformation programmes.\n, • Participate in solution demonstrations, design reviews and client presentations.\n, • Develop test scenarios and support system, integration and user acceptance testing.\n, • Coordinate with end users during UAT, helping to investigate issues and confirm that delivered functionality meets expectations.\n, • Support defect triage and work with technical teams to resolve functional issues.\n, • Produce user guides, process documentation and training materials.\n, • Deliver training and knowledge-transfer sessions to client teams and system users.\n, • Provide functional support during implementation, deployment and post-go-live phases.\n, • Build strong relationships with clients and provide trusted consultancy throughout the delivery lifecycle.\n, • Identify project risks, dependencies and gaps in requirements, escalating these appropriately.\n, • Contribute to project planning, estimation and workstream reporting.\n, • Support continuous improvement across Smallworld delivery methodologies, documentation and governance.\n\n Essential Experience \n\n • Strong experience operating in a functional consultancy, business analysis or solution delivery role.\n, • Experience delivering Smallworld solutions within the electrical utilities sector.\n, • Good understanding of electricity network data, asset info and operational processes.\n, • Proven experience gathering, analysing and documenting complex business requirements.\n, • Experience translating business requirements into functional specifications for technical delivery teams.\n, • Strong understanding of the software delivery lifecycle, including design, build, testing, deployment and support.\n, • Experience working directly with clients, business users and senior stakeholders.\n, • Experience supporting workshops, demonstrations, testing and user acceptance activities.\n, • Strong documentation skills, with the ability to produce clear and structured functional deliverables.\n, • Excellent communication, presentation and stakeholder-management skills.\n, • Ability to work independently within a remote and geographically distributed team.\n, • Willingness and ability to travel to client sites across the UK and Northern Europe when required.\n\n Desirable Experience \n\n • Experience with electricity distribution or transmission network operators.\n, • Knowledge of Smallworld Electric Office or related Smallworld utility applications.\n, • Understanding of network connectivity, topology, electrical assets and utility data models.\n, • Exposure to Smallworld Magik development or the ability to work effectively with Magik developers.\n, • Experience with Smallworld system upgrades, migrations or transformation programmes.\n, • Knowledge of integrations with systems such as SAP, Maximo, Oracle, ADMS, OMS, EAM or work-management platforms.\n, • Experience with data migration, data cleansing and data-quality programmes.\n, • Familiarity with Agile, Scrum or hybrid delivery methodologies.\n, • Experience working across international or multi-country utility programmes.\n\n