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Technical Architect – Virtualization / Cloud Computing - Alpharetta, GA (Atlanta area)

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Technical Architect – Virtualization / Cloud Computing

Up to $113K plus bonus

Up to 70% travel.

The Architect is responsible for providing expert knowledge to support engagement delivery, product development, sales, and staff development. The operational focus includes design, creation, and sustainability of Virtualization and Cloud Computing services targeting and resolving prevailing industry and client business issues. The Architect will also be asked to participate as a billable consultant on strategic client engagements to ensure the successful delivery of consulting services to meet client needs.

Responsibilities:
-Implement a practice strategic plan that will include consulting product improvements, product launches, business entry and business channel relationships
-Build and enhance a market leading product-driven suite of consulting services dedicated to driving revenue growth and market share increase.
-Develop service methodologies and best practices that result in high customer satisfaction and a reference friendly client base
-Actively participate in industry-sponsored events – such as presentations, council meetings, white papers, public-relation events, etc
-Provide executive level sales support for strategic clients and prospects to increase demand for higher value, programmatic consulting services (in their practice area), and grow and expand revenue
-Participate as a billable resource on strategic client engagements to ensure the successful delivery of consulting services to meet client needs
-Develop and institute quality programs for product delivery; Monitor client deliverables and perform routine quality review sessions to make adjustments with the product offering methodology if applicable
-Prepare and delivery comprehensive training programs and collateral for consulting staff
-Provide Quality Assurance to key consulting projects with a peer review process

Educational Requirements:
-Undergraduate degree in Informational Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field preferred but will consider applicants with equivalent work-related experience with a minimum educational requirement of a H.S. Diploma or GED equivalent
-Certification in Virtualization technologies such as; VCDX, VCP or CCA
-Certification in Information Availability such as; MCSE, ITIL or EMC Proven Technology Architect.
Business Requirements:
-Minimum of 5 years direct consulting experience
-Minimum of 7 years experience in Information availability.

Technical Skills:
-Experience with virtualization products, particularly from VMware
-Experience with migrating customer workloads to public and/or private clouds
-Service provider cloud experience is a huge plus

Other Skills:
-Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills
-Advanced communications skills both written and verbal
-Excellent decision making and problem solving skills
-Demonstrated mastery of consulting at the senior management level
-Exceptional organizational and communications capabilities
-Experience in public speaking including presentations to senior executives and large groups
-Ability to collaborate - superior interpersonal and leadership skills and the ability to win the confidence of individuals both within and outside of the organization
-Excellence in communication skills – demonstrated ability to take concepts, data and analysis and synthesize them into simpler terms for broader understanding, including executive level
-Proven track record of providing thought leadership to senior level executives and forging positive and profitable partnerships
-Demonstrated expertise in introducing new products/services and customer value propositions
-Extensive knowledge of industry best practices and generally accepted data center principles focusing on data center facility’s, infrastructure, virtualization software and cloud computing
-Ability to align IT architectures and recovery solutions for applications and systems
-Ability to analyze applications and data flow interdependencies
-Extensive experience incubating and managing a consulting services product lifecycle
-Strong presales experience with scoping prospective engagements and developing proposals.
-Exceptional presentation skills

Employment is contingent upon successful completion of the background investigation and pre-employment drug screen.

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