Technical Consultant, App Dev

Job Description

- As a Technical Consultant, you will utilize your knowledge and experience to design, develop and deploy solutions for an array of technologies
- You will work with a collaborative team, mentoring associates and ensuring development efforts are we'll documented and delivered with quality
- A Technical Consultant is an experienced field professional, who combines a breadth of knowledge across open-source and cloud technologies with external customer delivery experience
- They are expected to participate in customer engagements and exhibit commercial awareness along with applicable communication skills
- You will work with customer service owners, process owners and various service delivery groups and participate in customer engagements, demonstrations and meetings in a professional and courteous manner

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
- Experience in at least one development language (ex. Java, Python, etc)
- Experience in at least one messaging protocol (ex. Kafka, RabbitMQ, JMS, etc)
- 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

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