Project Consultant

Job#: 3058754

Job Description:

Solutions Consultant / Release Management Analyst (Contract)

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced Solutions Consultant / Release Management Analyst to support enterprise application delivery, release management, and solution planning within a complex technology environment.

This role will act as a bridge between business stakeholders, technology teams, and third-party vendors, helping translate business needs into actionable technical requirements and coordinated delivery plans. The successful candidate will manage application roadmaps, change requests, releases, upgrades, integrations, and cross-functional dependencies while helping drive projects from initial requirements and design discussions through implementation.

The ideal candidate brings a combination of technical understanding, project and release management expertise, vendor management, and strong stakeholder communication skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of enterprise application releases, enhancements, upgrades, and technology initiatives.
• Manage and maintain application roadmaps and planning cycles, aligning upcoming changes with business and technology priorities.
• Lead and coordinate release management activities, including scheduled releases, patches, emergency releases, and mandatory vendor upgrades.
• Manage application change requests from initial intake through requirements, planning, coordination, implementation, and delivery.
• Engage business stakeholders to understand new requests, enhancements, and required capabilities.
• Gather, document, and translate business and technical requirements into clear specifications and solution approaches.
• Coordinate closely with external vendors and third-party technology providers throughout change, release, upgrade, and delivery processes.
• Participate in and help drive solution and technical design discussions with business, application, infrastructure, integration, QA, BA, vendor, and development teams.
• Develop project and release plans, monitor progress, identify dependencies, and track deliverables through completion.
• Identify and manage cross-functional dependencies, including infrastructure changes, integrations, data feeds, connectivity, and downstream application impacts.
• Support integration planning involving APIs, batch and real-time processing, certificates, gateways, protocols, and system-to-system connectivity.
• Create high-level conceptual solution designs, process flows, presentations, and supporting technical documentation.
• Proactively identify delivery risks, communicate impacts, and coordinate stakeholders to resolve issues and keep initiatives moving forward.
• Facilitate communication across multiple internal teams, lines of business, and external partners.
  
  

Required Experience

• 5–10 years of professional experience in technology delivery, solution consulting, release management, business systems analysis, application management, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience supporting enterprise application releases, upgrades, patches, and project delivery.
• Hands-on experience with release management, including planned releases, emergency releases, patches, and mandatory application or vendor upgrades.
• Experience developing and managing application roadmaps and planning cycles.
• Strong experience with change request management, including requirements, impact assessment, planning, tracking, and implementation.
• Experience working with vendor-managed, third-party, or SaaS applications.
• Proven ability to coordinate external vendors and multiple internal technology teams.
• Strong requirements gathering and documentation experience.
• Experience participating in and driving technical and solution design discussions.
• Strong project planning, progress tracking, dependency management, and risk management capabilities.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex initiatives involving multiple teams and competing dependencies.
• Excellent stakeholder communication, facilitation, and documentation skills.
• Ability to operate in a Solution Consultant-type capacity, translating business requirements into technical delivery plans without being responsible for hands-on software development.
  
  

Technical Qualifications

• Strong understanding of APIs, application integrations, and system-to-system communication.
• Familiarity with both real-time and batch processing concepts.
• Understanding of integration technologies and concepts including certificates, gateways, protocols, interfaces, data feeds, and connectivity.
• Ability to understand infrastructure and integration dependencies associated with application changes and releases.
• Ability to participate confidently in technical design discussions and translate requirements into solution specifications.
• Experience creating conceptual architecture/design diagrams, process flows, technical documentation, and implementation plans.
• Comfortable working with development and infrastructure teams while remaining focused on solution coordination and delivery rather than hands-on coding.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience within financial services, banking technology, or other complex regulated enterprise environments.
• Solid working knowledge of CGI Trade360 and/or WAL, Solifi’s (formerly DataScan) Wholesale Automotive Lending platform, is considered a strong asset.
• Experience supporting enterprise platforms such as Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, or comparable vendor-managed applications.
• Previous consulting, solution consulting, or vendor-side technology experience.
  
  

Tools & Documentation

Experience with tools such as:

• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Microsoft Visio
• Jira
• Confluence
  
  

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is approximately 60–65% technically focused and 35–40% business/functionally focused and can operate comfortably between the two areas.

They will:

• Be a strong coordinator who can manage multiple workstreams, vendors, stakeholders, and technical dependencies.
• Understand technology well enough to challenge assumptions, ask the right questions, and drive solution discussions without needing to write code.
• Be highly organized and capable of managing application roadmaps, releases, dependencies, risks, and timelines simultaneously.
• Communicate effectively with both senior business stakeholders and highly technical teams.
• Take ownership of initiatives and proactively drive decisions and next steps rather than waiting for direction.
• Be comfortable operating in a vendor-heavy environment where successful delivery depends on coordination across multiple organizations.
• Be adaptable and capable of quickly learning new applications, business processes, and technology environments.
  
  

Contract Details

• Initial term: Minimum 6-month contract
• Extension: Strong likelihood of extension
• Work model: Hybrid, with onsite presence expected as required and flexibility based on business needs
  
  

What to Look for in Candidates

The strongest profiles will show an intersection of application release management + solution consulting + vendor management + technical delivery. Candidates who have only traditional project management experience may be too high-level, while deeply technical developers or architects may be more hands-on than the role requires.

Relevant résumé keywords to look for include: Release Management, Application Roadmap, Change Requests, Vendor Management, Solution Design, Enterprise Applications, API/Integration, Application Upgrades, Patches, Production Releases, Risk Management, Jira, Confluence, CGI Trade360, and Solifi/DataScan WAL.

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