Principal Consultant

The position requires limited supervision and responsibilities include:

• Take a lead role in a consulting project and direct a team of analysts and technical consultants.
• Drive change by supporting the CIO/CTO to set the right agenda to transform IT and their business.
• Lead and deliver on consulting projects and contribute to the overall development of the Cloud and Infrastructure Transformation Practice.
• Understand cloud technologies and vendors, as well as the industries in which our clients operate.
• Provide advisory consultancy to shape hybrid cloud platforms and enable customers to embrace digital transformation.
• Lead the estimating and planning of projects.
• Build and develop new client/alliance relationships.
• Mentor our team members to help them achieve maximum potential.
• Leads and oversees the development and documentation of comprehensive business cases to assess the costs, benefits, ROI, and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of highly unique or complex solution proposals.
• Define the impact of requirements on upstream and downstream solution components.
• Review, evaluate, and prioritize value gaps and opportunities for process enhancements or efficiencies.
• Be a Cloud evangelist. Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of Cloud.
• Lead deep architectural discussions and design exercises to create world‑class solutions built on AWS, Azure or GCP while ensuring solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.
• Collaborate with company leadership on best practices, cloud solution approaches and cloud practice expansions.
• Contribute to all aspects of the project life cycle, including design, development, testing, and support.
• Work with product owners and C‑level executives to build the vision and design a flexible architecture, then work with the team to implement and maintain that vision.
• Make recommendations to improve operational processes relative to efficiency and effectiveness.
• Ensure customer success in designing, building and migrating applications, software, and services on cloud platforms.
• Work with sales teams and C‑level executives to formulate and execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives through the adoption of cloud.
• Obtain customer pain points and market demand to help define compelling services and extend solution offerings.
• Manage multiple project engagements and priorities autonomously and in parallel.

The position requires the following technical skills:

• 10+ years design/implementation/consulting experience with distributed applications.
• 7+ years of experience in application, infrastructure, database, and networking architecture.
• 5+ years relevant experience in technology/software sales or pre‑sales consulting.
• 3+ years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with executive leadership (e.g., Vice President level and above).
• Demonstrable experience in technical strategy and architecture development and design within a big 5, other significant branded consultancy or systems integrator environment.
• Experience working with little to no supervision.
• Experience leading or working with multiple large‑scale enterprise Dev Ops or cloud transformation projects.
• Experience in cloud‑based architectures: distributed data architecture, big data applications, micro services architecture; experience with AWS or other cloud vendor desired.
• Experience with Identity Management tools (such as Okta, Auth0, etc.).
• Experience with Container Security tools (such as Aqua, Sysdig, Twistlock, etc.).
• Understanding of Cloud Security Frameworks.
• Advanced knowledge on configuration management tools (such as Ansible, Chef, etc.).
• Advanced knowledge on cloud native CICD tools (such as AWS Code Commit, Code Build, Code Deploy, Code Pipeline, etc.).
• Experience in "migrating" on premise workloads to the cloud.
• Experience with public/private cloud environments (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud), and automation/continuous integration.
• Advanced experience with AWS services like:
  Cloud Formation, IAM Policies, EC2, Lambda, S3, Glacier, Multi‑Region VPC, Route
  53, Security Groups, ALB/ELB/NLB, Cloud Watch, etc.
• Knowledge of how to build cloud ready applications, containerization, microservices and serverless application architecture.
• Communication and presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT Management, and developers.

Principal Consultant
• Houston, TX, United States