Lead Consultant (Data Center Infrastructure Specialist)

About the role
The Lead Consultant will lead the Data Center High Level Designs/Layer ZERO consulting. The Lead Consultant will be charged with designing a “Logical” solution for the customer that includes power, including Redundancy & Distribution, Cooling Layouts, Fire protection, Cabling. This resource can expect to work closely with a Network Consultant, Security Consultant, and End User Consultant. The Lead Consultant must be able to transform the current state of the data center, create a roadmap/path to the future state, specifically keeping in mind the direct impact it has on end users downstream.  In this role you will act as a functional as opposed to hands-on architect.

What you'll be doing

• Partner with business leaders to deliver services that support company objectives and that are consistent with Winning Together values.
• Responsible for creation of IT architecture models and their high-level components, including working with SMEs on lower-level designs.
• Analyze requirements, assess current implementations and systems, and design migration solutions with the application architect to meet or exceed the stated objectives.
• Interpret, use, and apply information contained within IT architecture to inform a range of business improvement activities, particularly those involved in the design, development, enhancement, and maintenance of IT future state systems.
• Collaborate with all relevant parties to review the objectives and constraints of each solution and determine conformance with the Enterprise Architects.
• Recommend the most suitable technical architecture and define the solution at a high level.
• Recommend and participate in the development of architecture blueprints for related systems.
• Identify and recommend areas appropriate for further study and participate in any POC projects required to thoroughly investigate architectural possibilities and strengthen arguments for their adoption.
• Identify implementation risks and analyze potential impact on the enterprise and the achievement of scheduled objectives.
• Share best practices, lessons learned, and update the technical system architecture requirements based on changing technologies, and knowledge related to recent, current, and upcoming vendor products and solutions.
• Ensure the respective business, application, data, and technology perspectives are aligned to the organization’s future technology and governance strategies, policies, and standards.
• Embrace and support Computacenter’s mission and core values.

 
What you have

• Bachelors degree or relevant experience
• 5 - 7+ years infrastructure transformation & migrations SME of Data Center Migration
• Legally eligible to work in the United States.
• Strong focus and experience around Data Center operations, relocation, decommission, physical infrastructure  and site-to-site migrations.
• Experience developing and documenting deliverables and presenting to C-level customers.
• Experience making recommendations and participating in the analysis, evaluation, and development of enterprise long-term strategic and operating plans to ensure consistency with long-term business objectives.
• Fluent ability to manage multiple projects and programs simultaneously.
• Superior written and oral communications skills.

What you can expect

There’s so much more to enjoy about being at Computacenter than just having a rewarding career. In addition to offering competitive compensation plans and long-term career opportunities, we provide an attractive mix of benefit plans to contribute to your good health, future financial security, and peace of mind.

About us

Computacenter is a leading independent technology partner, trusted by large corporate and public sector organizations. We help our world-renowned customers to source, transform, and manage their IT infrastructure to deliver digital transformation, enabling users and their business. We’re a public company quoted on the London FTSE 250 (CCC.L) and employ over 20,000 people worldwide. In the US, we support some of the country’s best-known businesses with regional hubs in San Francisco and Irvine, CA; Norcross, GA; Plano, TX; and New York City; and Integration Centers in Silicon Valley and Atlanta. www.computacenter.com/us