Our client, a worldwide professional services / major systems integrator with offices all over the world are currently seeking a Principal Lead Consultant to join their team in London working on a variety of prestigious clients in both the public and private sector.
Our Professional Services offering is variety and includes leading edge offerings around Cloud Computing, Data Centre Optimisation as well as many others.
The career offering within the Professional Services teams offers strategic client consulting across in depth technical knowledge, architectural breadth, consulting expertise and project/service governance skills.
The Role:
You will be expected to lead client consultancy engagements that create solutions and turns them in to a practical implementation plans delivering a clear return on investment. You will capture and build intellectual whilst maximising product and consultancy revenues by working with the appropriate sales, marketing and consultancy teams across the organisation and relevant vendors.
1. Selecting and/or reviewing approaches and standards to suit client challenges and opportunities;
2. Lead complex and critical consultative engagements with senior management;
3. Assess core IT function capabilities & activities and improve alignment with strategic objectives;
4. Recommend projects and initiatives for quick wins and longer term business improvement;
5. Confidently technical scope complex or critical IT programmes as well as high level business cases;
6. Compile total cost of ownership and return on investment models for leading business cases;
7. Act as senior advisor on solution delivery, across architectural and governance teams;
8. Ensure regular, clear and diligent communication across senior IT stakeholders;
9. Act as a mentor to senior consultancy and architectural staff.
Requirements:
1. Minimum of 10 years working as a subject matter expert across areas such as End User Computing / Data Centres and evolving infrastructure design into a large blue chip environment;
2. Analysing overall technical solutions, scoping projects & recommending suitable solutions and approaches;
3. Experienced Technical Leader on business critical technology projects across multiple IT functions;
4. Integrating and aligning business requirements, functional requirements and technical solutions;
5. Significant experience in business critical solutions;
6. Recognised leadership in the application of consulting best practice;
7. Proactive troubleshooting all solution aspects, including all stakeholders, environments & interfaces;
8. Recognised leader in multiple industry best practice areas;
9. Strong senior level relationships development experience, both internal & external;
10. Experience in large-scale, high-profile business critical solutions;
11. Professional capability across consultancy, service management and architectural best practices.
Although coming from a technology focused background, current and desired activities will be oriented on overall solution building to be functionally, operationally and commercially fit-for-purpose. They will typically follow and develop best practice methodologies around business case development, solution design and governance.
