Senior Solution Consultant

Title: Senior Solution Consultant Location: London, England

A Senior Solution Consultant at Rimes is a recognized functional expert who leads workstreams and initiatives across client engagements. You have firm, working knowledge of your domain both from a business and technical perspective and you use that expertise to own outcomes, not just tasks. You are self-managing: you set your own priorities within agreed project objectives, manage your stakeholders without prompting, and lead the consultants working alongside you. You bring a strategic lens to your engagements, identifying what is not being asked as well as what is and you are trusted to represent Rimes' capabilities in complex client environments independently.

Rimes Professional Services is the change agent that enables clients to unlock value from Rimes' data management, benchmarking, and platform services. The Solution Consulting team sits at the heart of PS spanning the full client engagement lifecycle from initial scoping and requirements discovery through to solution design, delivery, validation, and adoption The Consulting function operates across three primary product tracks self-serviced Data Management and Investment Intelligence, Rimes-serviced Data Management, and Benchmarks & Indices (B&I) each with its own delivery model, which is reflected throughout this job description.
WHAT WILL YOU DO: 

Client Engagement & Requirements

• Lead requirements discovery across complex, multi-workstream engagements, including facilitated workshops with senior client stakeholders
• Interpret ambiguous or conflicting requirements, identifying the underlying need and guiding clients towards solutions that address it
• Manage scope proactively — identifying scope creep, influencing clients towards pragmatic approaches, and ensuring changes are managed formally
• Act as the primary Rimes consulting point of contact for your assigned client workstreams

Solution Design & Advisory

• Design and own solution approaches for complex client use cases, covering multiple asset classes and data domains
• Lead solution design sessions and client workshops, facilitating effective engagement and clear decision-making
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve client processes and expand the value Rimes delivers beyond the immediate project scope
• Challenge non-standard client approaches confidently and constructively, backed by evidence and comparable engagement experience
• Review and quality-assure solution designs and documentation produced by Solution Consultants on your team

Delivery & Team Leadership

• Own delivery outcomes across your assigned workstreams, taking accountability for the quality and timeliness of your team's contribution
• Anticipate and actively manage delivery risks; escalate promptly when senior involvement is required
• Mentor and guide Solution Consultants working alongside you — reviewing outputs, providing constructive feedback, and helping them develop their capability
• Collaborate cross-functionally across Professional Services, Product and Engineering teams as needed to drive delivery

Validation, Adoption & Practice Development

• Lead UAT planning and execution, defining acceptance criteria and managing client engagement through the testing cycle
• Guide clients through technology change, identifying adoption risks and addressing them proactively
• Contribute to the development and improvement of PS best practices, delivery standards, and methodologies
• Provide structured feedback to Product teams on client needs, product gaps, and field observations

General Delivery and Change

• Support change beyond formal project delivery where required, including smaller client change, post-deployment enhancements, defects and transition activity, applying your expertise to understand the need, shape the appropriate solution and support it through to a successful outcome.
• Support wider Professional Services and Rimes priorities as required, including internal projects, change initiatives and activities aligned to company and functional OKRs, contributing your expertise wherever it can add value.

AI & Innovation

• Lead adoption of AI-enabled workflows within your engagements, identifying where new tooling can accelerate delivery or improve quality
• Contribute to team capability-building by sharing effective AI workflow practices with less experienced colleagues
• Stay actively current with evolving AI capabilities relevant to your product track

Qualifications and Desired Experience

• Deep working knowledge of investment management, asset management, or financial data operations across multiple domains (e.g. equities, fixed income, alternatives, derivatives)
• Strong understanding of data management workflows and technical considerations relevant to the product track
• Demonstrated experience leading client-facing solutioning and delivery on complex, multi-workstream engagements
• Experience mentoring or guiding more junior practitioners in a consulting or delivery environment
• Familiarity with Rimes products or deep experience with comparable data management or benchmarking platforms

Skills

• Ability to lead complex solution design and translate it into actionable, well-communicated delivery plans
• Strong stakeholder management — able to influence at project and operational level without formal authority
• Clear communication across operational, project, and senior client audiences — able to calibrate message to audience
• Comfortable managing competing priorities across multiple workstreams independently
• Constructive challenge — advocating for best practices diplomatically while maintaining client relationships

Key Attributes

• Accountable for outcomes, not just tasks and takes ownership of what the team delivers
• Self-managing: sets priorities, manages stakeholders, and escalates proactively without being prompted
• A natural informal leader and mentor and invests time in developing the consultants around them
• Brings a strategic perspective and sees what is not being asked as well as what is
• Consistently models the professional standards in the PS Consulting Excellence Framework