Prof Svcs Consultant 4

Prof Svcs Consultant 4

Prof Svcs Consultant 4


Location
India, Bangalore


Req # 12771
Functional Area
Corporate Consulting


Preferred Experience
Mid-Career Level


Preferred Education
Bachelors Degree








Position Summary
Working Title - Principal Consultant
Group - Cloud Platforms Group
Location: Bengaluru, India
Preferred Experience: 7+ years of professional experience
Preferred Education: Bachelor's degree or better
Req No - 12771
Reports To: Delivery Manager

Position Summary:
The Principal Consultant is responsible for applying Citrix Consulting methodologies and providing leadership in the installation, configuration, customization and implementation of Citrix CloudPortal and CloudStack products and technologies. The position requires the ability to execute small projects (4-6 weeks in duration) independently, supervise a project team (2-4 people), or lead a small to medium-sized project (8-12 weeks in duration).The Principal Consultant assumes responsibility for the team's completion of deliverables and is held accountable for the team's success. The Principal Consultant evaluates and mentors Citrix Consultants on methodology, best practices, technology, and general consulting skills. Strong software development, problem solving and analytical abilities are required for the position. Strong written and verbal communication skills are required.

Primary Accountabilities:
The Principal Consultant works on complex problems and addresses broad design issues that impact the implementation success of projects. The individual exercises independent judgment in developing methods, techniques, and evaluation criterion for obtaining results. This individual is responsible and accountable for the work output of a consulting team and the effective delegation of work to more junior consultants.

The primary duties for this position include but are not limited to:
. Serve as a project lead.
. Act as the primary point of interface with the client or project manager.
. Act as a technical expert.
. Act as a Citrix product and technology expert.
. Effectively execute Citrix Consulting service offerings and communicate their value.
. Active participation in business development activities.
. Active development of custom skins, workflows, components and integrations with third party systems using Java, JSP, JSTL, Spring framework and similar technologies.
. Assume responsibility/accountability for delivering entire components of a project.
. Understand the project "big picture" and the impact of different areas on the whole project.
. Evaluate/mentor Consultants and Senior Consultants on proper methodology, best practices, technology, and general consulting skills.
. "Drop down" to a Senior or Consultant level and tasks when required.
. Proactively seek to expand knowledge and supplement skills through appropriate use of books, manuals, and other self-study and point of need training.

Typical project roles would include:
. Team/Project lead (increased leverage); manage projects or internal initiatives
. Software Development as part of a customized implementation of CloudPortal technology at customer deployments
. Assist with project scoping/sales process; SOW development.
Qualifications and Requirements Qualifications:
The Principal Consultant must have demonstrated good technical, problem solving, and communication skills. The individual must be flexible, dependable, and capable of multi-tasking and of quickly learning new products and technologies. The Principal Consultant should have an advanced understanding of desktop and server operating systems software, including UNIX or Microsoft Windows operating systems and proficiency in common office productivity software such as Microsoft Office. Strong web application development skills using Java, JSP, HTML, CSS, JSTL and Spring. Additional knowledge of other technologies such as SOAP, REST, XML and the ability to pick up new technologies quickly is extremely desirable. The individual should have detailed knowledge in, and solid experience with , Citrix cloud products and technologies. The Principal Consultant should also have advanced knowledge of networking technologies in several of the following:

. NT domain/Active Directory
. W2K or UNIX installation and configuration
. Browsing and name resolution
. Security
. Routing
. Firewall configuration
. Networking
. TCP/IP
. Scripting
. Application Development / SQL knowledge
. Java web development (Java, JSP, JSTL, HTML, CSS, Spring, Tiles etc)

Requirements:
Position requires a Bachelor of Science or equivalent experience and knowledge of system architecture and Java web development technologies. Must also have a positive customer service attitude and be willing to travel 70-80% of the lifications and Requirements