Principal Consultant (IT)

Principal Consultant

Location: Bryanston

Salary: Market Related

 

Job Function:

·         Act as team lead and provide direction in solution design to other consultants at client site.

·         Lead the preparation of client proposals; participate in RFP process; and participate in the identification and development of sales opportunities.

·         Demonstrate expert working knowledge of WebMethods products and methodologies.  

·         Train, coach, mentor, and assist others in a team effort. 

·         Identify additional product/services opportunities in customer organization.

·         Create and present functional or technical training materials

·         Interprets business situations and uses best practices to improve products, processes and services

·         Analyses and solves complex problems; considers existing solutions from a new perspective

·         Develops new solutions and support others in solving complex problems

·         Implements technical/ functional architecture for complex IT applications

·         Coordinate and lead customer workshops

·         Analyse functional requirements and provide detailed technical specification and effort estimation

·         Knows the relevant competitors and their distinguishing characteristics in the market

·         Technical expert in specialised area/industry and has technical knowledge in other areas

·         Manage technical projects with low complexity or risk, if necessary.

·         Manage colleagues in a professional manner and if required in a disciplinary capacity

·         Presentations to clients and internal management to be conducted in an effective and professional manner.

·         Considers and understands internal/external challenges and recommends best practices

·         Adhere to company policies and procedures

 

Education and Experience:

·         Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) in Computer Science or a related field

·         Minimum of 10 years work experience with some supervisory

·         A minimum of three certifications on current version of the relevant product suite. 

·         A minimum of  one external certification in area of expertise

·         Experience or training with three or more of the following areas:  

o   Object oriented programming (Java/C++/.NET)

o   XML

o   RDBMS (Oracle, Informix, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase, MySQL)

o   Operating Systems (Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, Windows)

o   EAI, middleware, or other integration experience 

o   Web servers (Netscape, Microsoft) or web application servers

o   CRM (Siebel, Clarify, Vantive...)

o   ERP (PeopleSoft, SAP, Baan, Oracle Applications, JDE)

o   B2B – RosettaNet, EDI, EBXML or industry-specific standards

o   Web development (JSF, Servlets, Portlets, JSP)

o   webMethods

o   Tibco, SeeBeyond, Vitria, etc. a plus.

 

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