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    Data Center Principal Consultant - Chicago, United States - AHEAD

    AHEAD
    AHEAD Chicago, United States

    3 weeks ago

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    Description
    AHEAD is looking for a Modern Data Center Advisory Principal Consultant who is a seasoned customer facing consultant with established leadership skills directing a diverse team of advisory and delivery talent.
    The Principal Consultant provides onsite, hands-on client engagement management which involves the day-to-day running of the engagement portfolio. They will help teams flourish by guiding efforts, directing talents and expanding knowledge and skills to deliver strategic solutions to clients. They are the on-the-ground leaders, directing work efforts, analyzing and reviewing proposals from the team, providing appropriate solutions to problems, and making decisions on the way forward by acting as liaisons between the client and the delivery team.
    The Modern Datacenter Advisory Principal Consultant has a strong background in IT Infrastructure management, strategy, and has experience leading diverse technical teams. They are focused primarily on successful delivery, but utilizes their position as a trusted advisor to explore other client needs and working with the team to create proposals to address them. Principal Consultants keep in close contact with clients throughout the duration of the project as part of their official duties. Principal Consultants require approval from their management prior to making any significant change to a given program.

    Roles & Responsibilities

    • Client Delivery:
    • Facilitate strategy, roadmap, design, and planning workshops
    • Ensure that customer expectations are appropriately set and managed
    • 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
    • Breaks down the problem into manageable segments, identifies the factors that affect the problem and decides how to approach the project
    • Final editing and sign off on project deliverables
    • Presentation of deliverables to client executive management
    • Business Development:
    • Support business development pursuits through client discovery meetings that help qualify opportunities and allow the ideation of a strawman proposal
    • Represent service offerings during the sales cycle, including project scoping, proposal development, and presenting proposals to clients
    • Develop and promote relationships with customers and present technical solutions to C-Level executives
    • Practice Development & Thought Leadership
    • Develop and enhance AHEAD Advisory services offerings, including consulting offerings and deployment services
    • Technology thought leader and evangelist
    • Maintain a broad knowledge and understanding of the current and anticipated future state of the IT marketplace including IT trends, technologies, and standards
    • Mentor to team members

    Qualifications

    • Minimum 15 years of experience as senior information technology leader
    • Minimum of five years of executive technology consulting experience
    • Successfully completed 3+ Datacenter Moves
    • General Knowledge of Datacenter technologies - Compute, Storage, and Network
    • History of creating new enterprise capabilities from inception to delivery
    • Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or similar discipline
    • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
    • Demonstrated Business Acumen
    • Ability to solve complex, abstract problems
    • Excellent interpersonal skills, good listener, ability to connect with different personalities
    • Executive presence
    • Demonstrated experience as a technology change agent
    • MBA is a plus
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