Principal Consultant at AHEAD in Milwaukee, WI

Roles and Responsibilities

• Represent service offerings during the sales cycle, including project scoping, proposal development, and presenting proposals to clients
• Ensure that customer expectations are appropriately set and managed
• Facilitate strategy, roadmap, design, and planning workshops
• Lead technical project teams in the delivery of consulting service offerings
• Drive and manage the objectives, requirements gathering, project tasks/milestone, project status, dependencies, and timelines, to ensure engagements are delivered successfully and on time while meeting the business objectives
• Final editing and sign off on project deliverables
• Presentation of deliverables to client executive management
• Technology thought leader and evangelist
• Maintain a broad knowledge and understanding of the current and anticipated future state of the IT infrastructure marketplace including IT infrastructure trends, technologies, and standards
• Assist with the maintenance and development of solution offerings
• Develop and promote relationships with customers and present technical solutions to C-Level executives
• Approximate time allocation of principal consultants:
• 40%-50% - Coordinating and developing client deliverables
• 20%-30% - Writing and presenting statements of work and proposals (Pre-Sales)
• 10%-15% - Facilitating client workshops leading guided discovery and presentations
• 10%-15% - Developing new service offerings and enhancing existing offerings

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in related areas including 5+ years of experience in developing and implementing infrastructure solutions for large companies
• Demonstrated track record with architecting enterprise system architectures
• Data Center transformations, designs and consolidations, virtualization (Server, Storage, Desktop)
• Hybrid cloud architectures and solutions - including cloud platform technologies such as vRA/OpenStack/UCS vCD, vRO, Puppet/Chef and chargeback
• Architecting and solutioning of Amazon, Azure, Rackspace Cloud, and other public cloud technologies
• Experience with providing cost models (TCO/ROI) for financial alternative analysis
• Proven experience as a key technical resource leading development of solutions in client environments
• Experience as a Director or above position in an IT leadership role in industry and/or significant consulting experience
• Strong communication skills (both written and verbal)
• Demonstrated ability to influence and consult (providing options with pros, cons and risks) around all key technical decisions during project delivery
• Proven experience in technical consulting roles
• Strong interpersonal skills, customer centric attitude, ability to deal with cultural diversity
• Proven team player and team builder

Why AHEAD:

Transparent management

Work alongside and collaborate with industry experts

Investment in training & development

Incentives for certifications

Ability to make an immediate impact

Unlimited PTO

Outstanding lab