Consultant/Senior Consultant - Release & Deployment (IT)

TL;DR

Consultant/Senior Consultant (IT): Orchestrating the successful delivery of high-impact releases within enterprise-wide transformation programs with an accent on alignment across architecture, integration, business assurance, and governance. Focus on leading cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders to deliver value through structured, well-governed release management.

Location: Whilst you will have London, Manchester or Glasgow as an office base location, you must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location, as these roles may involve periods of time away from home at short notice.

Salary: We offer a remuneration package which includes flexible benefits options for you to choose to suit your own personal circumstances and a variable element dependent grade and on company and personal performance.

Company

hirify.global is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society.

What you will do

• Own the end-to-end delivery of assigned releases, including the development and management of detailed Release Plans.
• Provide strategic direction to cross-functional teams, including matrix management of Solution Delivery Partner (SDP) resources.
• Maintain robust RAIDO (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies, Opportunities) logs and ensure full compliance with programme governance standards and frameworks.
• Collaborate with the Release Architect to define and maintain an approved solution architecture, ensuring alignment with the wider programme’s target architecture and technical strategy.
• Lead the planning and execution of system integration activities, working closely with the Programme Technical Integration Team to ensure seamless interoperability across platforms.
• Partner with the Business Release Lead to ensure that release scope meets business and customer needs, and that outputs remain aligned to measurable benefits.

Requirements

• Must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location within the UK, as these roles may involve periods of time away from home at short notice.
• Able to manage and lead small project teams and interface with third-party vendors to deliver discrete changes into production, achieving strong outcomes for the client.
• Capable of architecting delivery solutions using either Waterfall or Agile methodologies for specific features or in support of delivering one or more epics.
• Comfortable interfacing with client stakeholders at all levels—from junior to senior—and able to communicate status updates and articulate key points effectively in decision-making forums.
• Skilled at translating complex technology changes into clear, understandable artefacts that enable business and product owners to assess impacts on the operating model.

Nice to have

• Currently working in a major Consulting firm, and/or in industry but having a Consulting background.
• Proven ability to be successful in a matrixed organisation, and to enlist support and commitment from peers in selling and delivering consulting solutions.
• Experience of proposition building and delivery.

Culture & Benefits

• Driven by our core values and Inclusive Futures for All campaign, we build environments where you can bring you whole self to work.
• We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance.
• We embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people.
• Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation.
• To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas.
• We have also invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.