Live Assets | IT Staffing Solutions seeking a Principal Consultant who wants to be part of growing a world-class consulting organization that is not like the others. Reporting to the Head of Consulting, our Principal Consultants are an integral part of the leadership team. As part of this industry-leading team, you define and implement cloud-based solutions that set the benchmark for best-in-class practices and enterprise architecture guidelines.
Consulting Excellence
o Builds and nurtures deep working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, as well as their counterparts in our clients and partners
o Leads a team of Sourced cloud consulting experts, develops and implements strategy and execution plans for strategic customer engagements with both global and regional impact,
aligned to business goals
o Sets standards for good communication, sound decision making, and active problem-solving
o Reviewing business plans against the organization’s strategic mandate
o Considers the long-term application and commercial viability of current research activities
o Brings deep technical expertise and can consult effectively at all levels of an organization
o Ability to influence at scale 1:many
o Trusted adviser for our enterprise clients and requires the skills to excel at all aspects of
business development, people management, relationship development, delivery of cloud
solutions and program management in their accounts, following a player/coach model.
o Driving C-level discussions and working closely with both our clients and our consulting team to tailor and define cloud adoption and DevOps strategies
o Providing guidance and support to business and application delivery teams to fully demonstrate the benefits of cloud technology
o Supporting clients in troubleshooting issues in their test and/or production environments and identifying root cause and solutions
o Deep experience/credibility in delivering solutions in security-conscious and heavily regulated environments
Team Building and Leadership
o Form strong team relationships by leading, coaching, and motivating team members, and identifying and resolving blockers or conflicts
o Helping others generate and identify breakthrough ideas, fresh perspectives and new opportunities
o Creating and promoting culture and environment that fosters highly performant teams
o Identify and serve as a mentor to up and coming consultants across the organization
o Work with the executive leadership to assess talent and related action plans
o Be part of recruiting and onboarding to enable new team members
Knowledge sharing & Community
o Developing, managing and continuously improving core internal processes. Creating documentation to support learning and reuse.
o Be a key contributor to our systemic learning and enablement approach to level up our team members on complex cloud transformation projects – so that clients can feel the difference
o Continue to specialize and deepen knowledge
o Able to teach learning programs to our employees and to our clients
o Create cloud transformation playbooks and best practices to help clients realize optimal business value from their cloud investments
o Identify and ensure best practices are shared globally to enable our teams to turbocharge their clients’ cloud journey
o Contribute to project retrospective and knowledge capture processes
o Speaks at regional/global conferences and has an impact in the cloud community
Growth Strategy
o Support pursuit teams to land multi-year transformation deals
o Work with leaders to ensure the implementation of new offerings and solutions within your accounts
o Be our brand evangelist and thought leader
o Write White Papers and speak at industry and partner events about Cloud transformation.
Presenting case studies and cloud solutions at meetups, conferences and technology events
o Identifying opportunities to access new markets, new services and new clients and carry out pre-sales activities
o Adapting priorities and business plans in response to changing market/client demands
o Creating and implementing work plans on a global scale for assigned projects, programs,
and/or clients against established operational objectives
o Being a thought leader externally to clients and internally to consultants
What you will bring to the role:
• Demonstrated ability to articulate a position on a topic to influence significant global decisions to a client
• A track record of facilitating the exploration of new ideas and leading innovation among teams. Strong facilitation skills with demonstrated experience leading scoping and design sessions, sprint
planning, and managing geographically dispersed teams
• You can determine what is best for the organization overall and create an environment for others to do the same
• Thought Leadership and evangelism experience demonstrated by presenting at an industry
forums and events
• Delivered significant outcomes at security-conscious and heavily regulated organizations
• Has achieved recognition within the profession for contributions in thought leadership
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Ruby, PowerShell etc.) – working with deployment automation configuration management technologies such as Puppet, Chef & Ansible
• Logging & event management tools such as Splunk, ELK Stack & SumoLogic
• Proven knowledge of backup & recovery procedures and technologies, data storage and retention requirements
• Proven knowledge in scalable network design and implementation
• Programming experience in Ruby, Python, .NET, Java or other
• Database experience with Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL or other
• Test automation experience
• In addition to your strong consulting and technical skills you will be a high EQ individual that understands the value and importance of quality team relationships. This role will suit anyone
who is satisfied by achieving outcomes in an environment that is collaborative and professional, with a strong one team culture
• You create trust and operate with humility
• You move with urgency and focus and take responsibility seriously
• You think rigorously. You use reasoning from first principles to get to the right answer
• Excellent verbal, presentation and written communication skills including creating usable documentation and tools
• Ability to travel to different locations