Azure Databricks Principal Consultant

Job Description

About the Role

Title: Azure Databricks Principal Consultant – Digital Velocity

Location: Remote US

Full Time

This position will primarily focus on designing and delivering best-in-class Data solutions for CDW clients. This position plans, directs, and coordinates activities of designated Data projects and associated personnel, subcontractors, and vendors to ensure that client service delivery is effectively managed on all dimensions: budget, timeline, quality, deliverables/outcomes, teaming/collaboration and updates/communication with a high degree of client satisfaction.

The Principal Consultant contributes to the development and evaluation of junior personnel via apprenticeship and QA activities to ensure efficient operation of the function. This position is responsible for meeting team financial objectives through efficient SOW delivery and early escalation of potential change requests. The Principal Consultant teams with other consulting and sales colleagues to develop a “trusted advisor” relationship with clients with the specific objective of achieving further penetration into accounts and attaining meaningful follow-on sales.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

Delivery

Regularly serves in the lead consultant role on a project team to provide guidance to other team members. Serve as the executive program manager with responsibility for managing client expectations for specific Data projects, while seeking and fostering additional opportunities with clients. As part of this role, is responsible for managing the quality assurance process to deliver quality on-time deliverables.

Assumes a leadership role in evaluating the clients’ requirements considering leading-edge technology and best in class structure and operating models

Provides input and quality checks final recommendations for technology solutions to meet business requirements

Consistently achieves outstanding Client Satisfaction results on all consulting engagements

Reviews and understands all assigned Statement of Work (SOW) in/out-of-scope activities and deliverables prior to services delivery

Participates in determining business requirements, technical requirements, and solution architecture for clients

Understands the business factors and motivators driving technology decisions with clients

Provides technical team leadership and guidance to a project’s technical team by carrying out the following responsibilities:

Assigning analysis, design, and development tasks to team members

Coordinating all technical team responsibilities such as installation, configuration, development, deployment, and support of user testing

Conducting technical reviews of all materials and deliverables for content, consistency, and accuracy of the solution

Prepares and completes technical design inspection of other team members

Communicates status of engagement to the customer, CDW’ Services management, and CDW reps as appropriate during the engagement

Recognize issues, risks, delays, etc. of the project and communicate immediately to the appropriate customer or CDW team member

Gathers feedback and input from team members and works with senior project staff to optimize client relationship and improve quality

Consistently achieves outstanding Client Satisfaction results on all consulting engagements

Maintains accountability to work estimates and project financials

Builds client-focused relationships with clients to identify business challenges

Makes recommendations to solve client problems

Complies with all-time compliance and time entry guidelines

Meets billable utilization targets

Practice Development:Supports activities that drive practice growth and profitability

Pre-Sales

Directly interacts with clients, sales personnel and CDW Presales Architects to identify, qualify, and validate client requirements for technology solutions. Pursuit activities include meeting with C-Suite personnel, creating and delivering presentations to drive Data solutions

Creates solution prototypes and POCs which illustrate business value and garner client buy-in

Provides technical perspective to ensure a realistic estimation of scope, cost and level of effort for proposal generation

Creates proposals and contractually sound Statements of Work (SOWs), solution work estimates, and total solution pricing for profitable post-sales delivery integration, implementation and delivery. Provides significant and demonstrated services solution sales to meet practice goals

Develops Cost/Benefit Analysis and rationale for large complex projects or programs with input from others on the account team

IP Development

Provides technical leadership in the 2-3 core competencies and related offerings of technical specialty

Conducts research & development work targeted to create frameworks, utilities, or best practices to enhance the efficiency and quality of client delivery efforts

Cataloguing existing intellectual property (IP), determining strategic areas for IP development (including input into training and education plans), and evangelizing the use of practice IP by delivery teams

Contributes and develops best practices, strategies, methodologies and documentation/templates. Occasionally presents externally as a thought leader at a regional level

Staff Oversight

Directly supervises project staff with responsibility for ensuring engagement success and appropriate use of practice tools, methodology, deliverable preparation, and client presentation

Leads code or other technical reviews and presents constructive feedback to technical team

Mentors less senior personnel and serves as escalation point for their technical related project issues

Steps into team leadership roles and empowers others to increase contribution and level of responsibility

Training/Certifications – Engages in professional development, including obtaining industry related certifications as directed by management, to maintain continued growth in professional skills and knowledge

Administrative Overhead – Respond to email, phone calls, complete timecards in a timely manner, expense reports and status reports as required

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics or a related field

At least eight (10) years’ related work experience with one or more Data solutions in the CDW portfolio, to include:

At least five (5-8) years’ related work experience with cloud data analytics platform technologies (Databricks, Azure Analytics, Snowflake, Denodo, Talend, etc.).

At least five (5) years’ experience in Databricks adoption and implementations.

Other Position Requirements

Demonstrated knowledge / understanding of enterprise system integrations, such as:

Multi-Cloud integrations (a.k.a. cloud adjacency)

Hybrid Cloud/On-prem systems (IBM Cloud Pak For Data, OpenShift)

Data Movement (ETL/ELT, Streaming, Batch Loading, Databricks, etc.)

Data Virtualization (Logical data warehouse, Logical Data Lakes, Derived Tables);, Denodo, Trifacta, Delta Lake, etc.

Data Warehouse In-depth knowledge (Databricks, Azure, Cloudera, Teradata Vantage, etc.)

Data Prep (Self Service:Talend, Alteryx, PowerBI; Enterprise: Informatica, Tableau Prep, Talend, etc.

Data Consumption and Visualizations: PowerBI, Tableau, Cognos, ThoughtSpot, etc.

Multi-Cloud integrations (a.k.a. cloud adjacency)

Hybrid Cloud/On-prem systems (IBM Cloud Pak For Data, OpenShift)

iPaaS solutions (APIM, Mulesoft, etc.)

Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with a wide variety of client and internal team members, including management and technical staff.

Demonstrated in-depth knowledge of products, services and industry to identify and evaluate client needs and recommend the best solutions

Proven ability to set standards, targets, measures for products and services based on knowledge of current market trends

Demonstrated ability to work with wide variety of client staff including management and technical staff

Demonstrated ability to provide guidance and leadership to less experienced technical team members, including delegating technical tasks, and resolving issues of poor technical execution without escalation

Demonstrated ability to architect large projects from pre-sales Discovery to Solution Outline

Demonstrated presentation and communication skills, including effectively communicating one-on-one, and in

small and large groups, using a variety of presentation methods to sustain the audiences’ engagement

Demonstrated time management and organizational skills; ability to handle multiple concurrent projects simultaneously

Demonstrated ability to establish positive working relationships and conduct complex and important work critical to the organization in a team consulting environment

Ability to change the thinking of, or gain acceptance from, others in sensitive situations, without damage to the relationship

Proven ability to maintain a large, influential network of contacts with visible industry presence

Demonstrated database knowledge in MS SQL, DB2, Oracle, or other enterprise-class RDBMS and MongoDB

Demonstrated knowledge of operating systems including Windows, i5/OS, z/OS, AIX, Linux, or others