Technical Consultant

Roles and Responsibilities

• Participate on project teams to deploy solutions across open-source and cloud technologies
• Participate in architecting open-source and cloud related technology solutions involving such challenges as storage, messaging, streaming, analysis, scalability, development operations and security
• Support pre-sales Professional Services teams to drive open-source and cloud technologies providing technical expertise to Ahead and our customers
• Participate in customer requirements and design to achieve customer’s business goals, contributing to scoping, planning, implementing, testing and methodology
• Participate in development and testing activities in customer engagements with limited supervision
• Participate in the design of complex solutions
• Participate in the creation of written deliverables
• Participate in client workshops
• Participate in client demos and working sessions
• Influence direct team members and external customers regarding policies, best practices and procedures
• Support senior team members and project leaders
• Obtain and maintain certifications with associated qualifications
• Contribute to the creation and maintenance of project collateral
• Communicate with external customers involving moderately complex negotiation and explanation of deliverables
• Work to influence direct team members and external customers at an operational level regarding policies, practices, and procedures
• Understands performance, scaling and functional characteristics of software technologies
• Mentor junior staff and support project leadership

Qualifications

• Customer facing role for min. of 3+ years
• 3+ years designing, securing and deploying large-scale applications and solutions
• Awareness with one of the major cloud vendor environments (development, access, migration)
• Proven skills in a given area (as measured by certification/approved training completion/proven abilities)
• Strong development skills in open-source and cloud technologies
• Moderate skills integrating third party tools and solutions
• Proficient in C#, Java, React.Js and Spring Boot.
• Effectively communicate with, and present to delivery, sales and customer teams
• Strong project and situational awareness
• Strong attention to detail
• Self-starter

Expectations

• Seasoned professional individual contributor
• Perform core project work with limited supervision
• Provide data and situational analysis and in-depth evaluation for individual technologies (such as messaging, data flow, transformation and storage, cloud platforms and their respective capabilities).
• Author and coordinate technical documentation
• Coordinate cross-team and practice initiatives as necessary to support Professional Services 
• Ability to understand open-source and cloud use-cases, and recommend standard design patterns commonly used in such solutions (best practices)
• Can lead written deliverable creation within their area of expertise and drive projects to successful completion
• Strong working knowledge to own components of a complex solution
• Can clearly articulate the scope of the project and work they are tasked to perform 
• Can articulate how their work relates to the business objectives for the project
• Proactively assist project management with concerns and solutions concerning project support and potential overruns
• Initiate and participate in authoring PCR requests when additional work is being requested
• Identify client requests that are out of scope and escalates to the project manager or sales team