What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Consultant position at Computacenter?
Overview
As a Computacenter Principal Consultant, you will assist in providing transformative technology solutions for the most visionary companies in the world. This takes imagination, relentless client service, and the tenacity to enable our clients to achieve their goals and delight our customers. Our top tier partnerships with leading-edge technology manufacturers keep us immersed across the broad spectrum of the IT ecosystem.
Along with designing and implementing single and multi-vendor technology solutions. You will have the opportunity to work within an industry-leading sales and technical sales team to understand our clients’ needs and craft sustainable roadmaps to achieve their goals.
From strategy to fulfillment to managed services, our engineering centric solutions enable our clients to leverage technology to accomplish more than they have ever envisioned.
Responsibilities
- Partner with business leaders to deliver services that support company objectives and that are consistent with Winning Together values.
- Act as a technical lead in technology solutions by doing the following:
- Mentoring other Engineers;
- Lead a team of resources on larger projects;
- Review the deliverables of other Engineers, as appropriate;
- Act as a point of escalation;
- Present technology topics at internal education sessions, and industry user group meetings and/or conferences.
- Be regarded as a thought leader by recommending new technologies, best practices and tools that support the growth of the business
- Ability to assess Customer environment and make design and solution recommendations.
- Act as liaison between Pre-Sales and Delivery teams.
- Provide design, deployment and implementation services of single or multi-vendor solutions in a Data Center environment.
- Handle issues escalated by Consultants and Lead Consultants
- Ability to troubleshoot multi-vendor issues
- Lead a Project team
- Be current with vendor offerings and technology
- Be available to meet the customers IT needs
- Achievement of utilization targets
- Physical ability to lift up to 50 lbs.
- Provide after-hours on-call support.
- Understand and abide by all security and operational policies.
- Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders across Computacenter
- Safety and security of facility.
- Embrace and support Computacenter’s mission and core values.
Education & Experience Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field.
- Minimum of 15 years as an engineering consultant, outside systems engineer or similar.
- Relevant qualifications or accreditations in one or more technology area(s)
- Legally eligible to work in the United States.
Skills & Competencies
- Subject matter expert within your focused technology stack
- Ability to design complex multi technology solutions
- Ability to design complex technical solutions and provide input into bid, project and technical documents
- Have, maintain and/or achieve multiple manufacturer-specific advanced certifications. e.g.: CCIE R/S, Voice, CISSP, VCDX, UCS
- Broad knowledge of the business benefits that technical solutions can provide
- Ability to lead and organize a large virtual technical team, with good negotiation skills and people management skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to present in a group setting.
- Prefer a strong working knowledge of computer system applications (e.g.: Windows, Microsoft Office, OSX, Salesforce).
WHY COMPUTACENTER?
Computacenter is a leading independent technology partner, trusted by large corporate and public sector organizations. We help our customers to source, transform and manage their IT infrastructure to deliver digital transformation, enabling users and their business. Computacenter is a public company quoted on the London FTSE 250 (CCC.L) and employs over 15,000 people worldwide. In US we support some of the country’s best-known businesses with regional headquarters in both San Francisco & New York City and an Integration Center in Silicon Valley. www.computacenter.com/us
WE OFFER A GREAT BENEFITS PACKAGE!
There's so much more to enjoy about being at Computacenter than just having a rewarding career. In addition to offering competitive compensation plans and long-term career opportunities, Computacenter provides an attractive mix of benefit plans to contribute to its employees' good health, future financial security and peace of mind.
You must be authorized to work in the United States.
Computacenter United States Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer with a strong commitment to supporting and retaining a diverse and talented workforce.
No AGENCIES, please. We are not obligated to pay any fees for any individuals we decide to hire.
There's so much more to enjoy about being at Computacenter than just having a rewarding career. In addition to offering competitive compensation plans and long-term career opportunities, Computacenter provides an attractive mix of benefit plans to contribute to its employees' good health, future financial security and peace of mind.
You must be authorized to work in the United States.
Computacenter United States Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer with a strong commitment to supporting and retaining a diverse and talented workforce.
No AGENCIES, please. We are not obligated to pay any fees for any individuals we decide to hire.
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