IT Application SME – Corporate Applications

Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire
Orion Group
We have a current opportunity for a Senior InfoSec Advisor (IRM Manager) on a 12 month PAYE contract basis

Key Responsibilities

Discovery & Portfolio Shaping

• Run discovery with process owners; agree scope, outcomes and success measures; map AS-IS / TO-BE and identify simplification opportunities.
• Elicit and document requirements (user stories/use cases, acceptance criteria); maintain traceability into testing and release.
• Shape a value-based roadmap and backlog (configuration vs. enhancement vs. process change) with clear options and impacts.

Delivery & Change Enablement

• Build and manage plans, RAID and release calendars; govern scope and change control.
• Coordinate UAT, readiness, training and communications; run cutover/hypercare and track benefits realisation.
• Provide concise status/risk reporting to functional leadership and PMO.

Integrations, Data & Non-Functionals

• Lead outcomes across APIs/middleware and batch/file jobs; agree monitoring and error-handling standards with AMS.
• Embed Non-Functional Requirements, performance, availability, supportability and ensuring solutions are supportable by operations.
• Champion data quality, reconciliations and reporting enablement; maintain interface contracts and runbooks.

Controls, Risk & Compliance

• Embed SoD, Joiner-Mover-Leaver and GDPR controls; maintain audit-ready evidence.
• Coordinate with Information Risk Management and Architecture on risk acceptance and remediation.

Vendor & AMS Governance

• Act as day-to-day interface to AMS and ISVs: prioritise backlog, agree estimates/timelines; manage SOWs, Service Level Agreements, KPIs and Service Improvement Plans.
• Ensure clean handover to BAU with updated documentation and knowledge articles.

Service Operations (SME / L3 coordination)

• Serve as functional SME and L3 escalation: triage complex issues and direct AMS/vendors to resolution.
• Maintain support models, runbooks and knowledge articles; track service KPIs and drive SIPs.

Role Dimensions

• Multi-application portfolio spanning finance, procurement, maintenance and document/collaboration solutions.
• Complex stakeholder set across business functions, AMS and ISVs; measurable outcomes and adoption focus.

Role Requirements

• 7+ years in application change delivery as a PM/BA across enterprise platforms.
• Proven delivery of enhancements/upgrades/integrations with AMS/ISVs; strong UAT, cutover and hypercare leadership.
• Integration literacy (APIs/middleware), data quality mindset and documentation discipline; ways of working aligned to ITIL v4 and PMO governance.
• Excellent stakeholder communication; experience with IT Service Management (ITSM) tools (e.g., ServiceNow) and Agile/Scrum or PRINCE2.

Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.