Principal Technical Consultant, Platform Engineering

• Serving as a technical thought leader and SME for our ecosystem of partners, customers, and service providers in the realm of Modern Apps Platform Engineering, in addition to serving as a leader of other teammates
• The Principal Technical Consultant works as part of the consulting team to lead the development, design, implementation, and engagement leader of client solutions
• Principal Technical Consultants manage, mentor and delegate to engineers on a project basis, manage and maintain career advancement plans for the team, and within the broader organization as it relates to internal initiatives and indirect project support
• This role requires a strategic mindset, strong leadership abilities, and deep technical proficiency across various domains

Responsibilities

• Ensure projects are delivered on time, at the highest quality standards while exceeding client expectations.
• Design and implement complex, mission-critical transformational enterprise grade technical solutions for clients.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships, drive business growth, and identify opportunities for upselling and cross-selling
• Develop high quality deliverables and presentations for Client engineering teams and senior leaders, this can include both technical documentation and non-technical documentation.
• Collaborate with clients to understand their technical challenges and develop tailored solutions to address their needs
• Create and present solution designs, options, ideas, and innovations to clients senior leadership teams.
• Develop and maintain Technical Roadmaps and Innovation Plans.
• Develop and implement CICD solutions.
• Establish project estimates and plans, identify risks and mitigations, oversee development and delivery of technical solutions.
• Provide mentorship, coaching, and professional development opportunities to team members, empowering them to grow and excel in their roles.
• Actively lead collaboration within our technical communities

Qualifications

• Experience and ability to jump on a whiteboard in front of a customer to develop a solution to a business / technology goal or challenge.
• Strong consulting and business acumen
• 10+ years of IT experience and 5+ years of Cloud, DevOps, Automation, Application Modernization, Digital Transformation experience.
• Multiple certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect Pro, AWS DevOps Engineer Pro, Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Terraform Associate, etc
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing Platform core services around Compute, Storage, Networking, Databases, Containers, Security, Identity, etc
• Experience with organizational adoption of transformational initiatives - Platform Engineering, DevOps, DevSecOps, Cloud Transformation, Application Modernization
• Hands-on experience with IaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible, ARM, Cloud Formation
• Experience with using and managing deployment services such as Harness, GitHub, Ansible, Jenkins, etc Knowledge and usage of branching strategies is required.
• Hands-on experience in programming with Java, Python or any development language.
• Excellent written verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge of modern cloud-native application design principles, DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CICD Pipelines,
• Knowledge of enterprise organizations across multiple industries and inner IT functions (eg Enterprise Architecture, Operations)