Professional Services: Req–4447 Senior Principal Consultant (Chicago, IL)

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Job Description:
The Senior Principal Consultant will work with technical and functional consultants performing the necessary detailed analysis and design for the development of an enterprise-wide technical architecture pre- and post-sales. This position is actively involved, as a member of project teams, in applying these technology architectures and standards.

Responsibilities:

• Work with the Services Vertical sales teams to remove any objections to complex functional and technological aspects of the sale
• Partner with Professional Services Technical team members to design key extensions to core product or industry offerings to help remove complexities and challenges
• At times, work across all verticals within Professional Services customizations to create high level solution implementation design and resolve deployment challenges
• Analyze and validate enterprise business process and drivers to determine impact on solutions and architectures
• Determine appropriate future state technology architectures and mechanisms, in particular, optimizing existing customer solutions
• Negotiate and white board different strategies and approach with prospects and customers
• At times, implement solutions for customers
• Maintain relationships with senior technologists in other departments
• Provide key roadmap feedback to Product Management team to help evolve industry vertical solution offerings
• Give feedback on learning from involvement in project activity to further refine the target architecture
• Miscellaneous responsibilities as needed for the Services Vertical team
• Miscellaneous responsibilities as needed for the PS Practice

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree
• 5+ years' experience in ERP application implementations, deep understanding of business processes
• 5+ years' experience with technical architectures
• Demonstrated initiative in researching and understanding the implications of emerging technology
• Pre-sales experience with "C" level executives
• Knowledge of components of technical architectures
• Experience leading technical work-packages on projects
• Must be willing to travel 25% to 50% across North America