Senior Technical Consultant, App Dev

As a Senior Technical Consultant, you will utilize your extensive knowledge and experience to design, develop and deploy solutions for an array of technologies. You will work with a collaborative team leading, mentoring and ensuring development efforts are well documented and delivered with quality.. A Senior Technical Consultant a highly experienced field professional, who combines a breadth of knowledge across open-source and cloud technologies with a proven track record of delivery. They are expected to lead engagements and exhibit a high degree of commercial awareness along with mature communication skills. TheSenior Technical Consultant is a highly experienced in designing, developing and deploying integration solutions with external third party tools. 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. 
• Ability to architect open-source and cloud related technology solutions involving such challenges as storage, messaging, streaming, analysis, scalability, development operations and security 
• Participate in pre-sales cycle as technical expert including assisting Sales, System Engineers and Professional Services teams to drive open-source and cloud technologies adoption and maturation 
• Provide thought leadership to Ahead and our customers 
• Lead customer requirements and design to achieve customer’s business goals 
• Communicate with customers, which may include top management, on matters that require explanation, interpretation, and / or advising 
• Lead a team of technical delivery resources 
• Lead development and testing activities 
• Lead in the architecture and design of complex solutions 
• Lead the creation of written deliverables 
• Lead client demos and working sessions 
• Lead integration design sessions and deployment 
• Participate as technical expert in client workshops 
• Influence direct team members and external customers regarding policies, best practices and procedures 
• Achieve high team standards. Contributes to the refinement of methodology and best practices to establish quality and effectiveness 
• Understands performance, scaling and functional characteristics of software technologies 
• Mentor junior staff and support project leadership 
• Obtain and maintain certifications with associated qualifications 

Qualifications

• Customer facing role for min. of 5+ years
• 5+ years designing, securing and deploying large-scale applications and solutions 
• Experience with one of the major cloud vendor environments (development, access, migration) 
• Experience in Flask or Fast API
• Effectively communicate with, and present to all levels of the organization 
• Subject matter expert in at least one open-source and cloud technology. 
• Architect level development skills in Python using Django.
• Architect level development skills in at least one messaging protocol (ex. Kafka, RabbitMQ, JMS, etc.) 
• Strong skills integrating third party tools and solutions 
• Strong project and situational awareness 
• Strong attention to detail 
• Self-starter 

Expectations

• Recognized subject matter expert in professional discipline 
• Depth of knowledge and experience enables contribution in a more complex/critical environment 
• Provide measurable input into new products, processes, standards, and / or plans 
• Author and coordinate technical documentation and knowledge based articles 
• Coordinate cross-practice and contribute to cross-practice deliverables to defined standards 
• Ability to understand open-source and cloud use-cases, and recommend standard design patterns commonly used in such solutions (best practices) 
• Demonstrate deep expertise across at least one open-source and/or cloud technology 
• Able to architect and lead deployment of moderately complex solution 
• Communicate with external customers, which may include senior management, on matters that require explanation, interpretation, and / or advising 
• Ability to understand and translate customer requirements into technical requirements 
• Establishes strong, long term professional relationships with team members across Sales, Pre-Sales and Post-Sales 
• Participate in presales activities including scoping and positioning
• Identify new client opportunities inside of the practice and engages pre-sales to begin new campaigns within the practice 
• Able to communicate beyond tactics and technology and can help customers management set strategic direction 
• A reliable resource for marketing on thought leadership pieces for their practice 
• Begin speaking at industry conferences 
• Contribute to more complex workshops and understand how their area of expertise fits into our stitching message
• Drive scoping, planning, and methodology for critical projects 
• Initiate and participate in authoring PCR requests when additional work is being requested 
• Contribute to development of innovative and high impact solutions for complex client programs 
• Provide measurable input into new products, processes, standards, and / or plans 
• Work to influence direct team members, broader internal team, and external customers, possibly including senior management, to agree and accept new concepts, practices, and approaches 
• Culture.