Cloud Principal Consultant

 Location: UK - Birmingham, UK - London, UK - Reading, UK - Nottingham, UK - Manchester, UK - Edinburgh | Job-ID: 204567 | Contract type: Standard | Business Unit: IT Service Delivery/Managed Services

Life on the team

Group Professional Services encompasses Consultancy in the UK & France together with the Project practices across the UK, France and Germany. We are made of up of over 1,000 skilled practitioners with deep expertise across core infrastructure technologies and industry standard architecture and project management methodologies. 
 

What you’ll do

As a Principal Consultant you will deliver both pre and post sales technical consultancy to our customers, leading teams of consultants in delivery engagements as well as providing pre-sales qualification, bid response and design to consultancy engagements. This role is UK based, and will involve travel to Computacenter and client sites. Additionally, you will:

• Design and implement solutions for customers consistently and with quality, using our methodologies and processes 
• Define solutions, technologies and standards to blueprint best practice within the technology tower Produce high quality assignment documentation and assure deliverables produced by team members to ensure consistency and accuracy within a solution. 
• Work as part of a team defining, designing and implementing solutions for our customers 
• Attend customer meetings to present solutions from a technical and implementation approach 
• Highlight any technical risks that may impact the success of the solution for our client 
• Quality assure deliverables produced by team members to ensure consistency and accuracy within a multi-technology solution

What you’ll need

• Exercises substantial personal responsibility, autonomy & a clear framework of accountability. 
• Interacts with and influences colleagues and has working level contact with customers, suppliers and partners. 
• Understands and collaborates on the analysis of user/customer needs and represents this in their work.
• Takes action to develop own knowledge and represents this in their work. 
• Communicates fluently, orally and in writing, and can present complex information to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Fully understands the importance of security to own work and the operation of the organisation. Seeks specialist security knowledge or advice when required to support own work or work of immediate colleagues
• Knowledge or experience of public platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware, OpenStack)

About us

With over 20,000 employees across the globe, we work at the heart of digitisation, advising organisations on IT strategy, implementing the most appropriate technology, and helping our customers to source, transform and manage their technology infrastructure in over 70 countries. We deliver digital technology to some of the world’s greatest organisations, driving digital transformation, enabling people and their business.