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Principal Consultant - Software and Data

Principal Consultant - Software and Data

CyberPro Consulting (Pty) LtdJohannesburg, GT, za
14 days ago
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Job Description

CyberPro Consulting is one of the leading providers of IT professional services in the South African market, with over 500 consultants servicing our customers, and a 25-year track record of delivering Advisory, Managed Projects and Team Augmentation services.

We are hiring two Principal Consultant technical leads . These roles call for energetic, client facing senior individuals who bring a combination of broad technical background, pre-sales and advisory experience, hands on technical delivery and analysis skills as well as project management capability .

If you are one of these rare-breed individuals who can operate at the intersection of technology, sales and project delivery, and are looking for a rewarding senior role in one of South Africa’s well known and fast-growing tech companies, we want to hear from you.

The role calls for multiple responsibilities where you will find yourself focusing on different things at different times, across a wide range of technology, industries and business problems, at a senior level.

The key focus areas will be :

Sales and Pre-Sales

  • Contribute to customer sales meetings, supporting our account management team, wearing a technical / advisory hat
  • Compile high quality RFP Responses for turnkey, managed and consulting project RFPs
  • Customer presentations and pitches
  • Own and Maintain RFP, Proposal etc. Templates
  • Meet CyberPro's onsite teams regularly to understand the technical work being delivered and provide a mentoring function as needed

Project Delivery and Team Management

  • Serve as a roving technical thought leader and advisor between CyberPro's various onsite technical teams
  • Provide leadership role on CyberPro Consulting managed projects including people management, tech lead, analyst and project management activities
  • Supervision of CyberPro Consulting team members servicing the client on managed projects
  • Responsible for driving the performance of managed CyberPro Consulting project teams
  • Project Governance of managed projects : Regular check-ins, performance reviews, and agile delivery practices
  • Performance reviews of CyberPro Consulting managed teams against agreed KPIs
  • Assist with Performance management of CyberPro Consulting managed teams
  • Ensuring Integration with Client Teams and client satisfaction
  • Interviewing and selection of candidates

    • Marketing

  • Co-work with Marketing to document CyberPro's projects and produce case studies and customer testimonials
  • Assist with generating CyberPro Consulting technical thought Leadership content on Social Media
  • Represent CyberPro Consulting at conferences, trade shows etc. from time to time

    • Tech Leadership

  • Research and POC work into new tech as required - Software, Data, Digital, Cloud, AI
  • Contribute to and drive innovation, automation, RPA and AI within CyberPro internally
  • Provide Advisory / Consulting services to customers as and when needed
  • Assist in vetting and recruiting suitable technical staff for CyberPro Consulting
  • Assist in running and present at CyberPro Consulting internal skills and tech sessions
  • Co-work with HR to document and drive the skills and capabilities of the team

    • Vendor Partnerships

  • Contribute to growing the CyberPro partner relationships - AWS, Microsoft, Salesforce, Snowflake
  • Certify on Pre-Sales, Sales and Tech certifications as required for partnerships
  • Work with our vendor partners in co-selling and co-branding opportunities

    • Help to drive technical certifications of CyberPro staff required for our certified partner relationships

    Location, Working hours etc.

  • Full time position during core working hours with flexi starting time between 7 to 9 in the morning
  • Working location - Either our Johannesburg (Woodmead) or Cape Town (Century City) offices, as well as regular presence / travel at our customers in the region, including medium term deployments from time to time to customer premises as our projects require
  • Note : this is an office-based role and does not offer remote working except for 1 day per week (Wed) , we are looking for career focused people who enjoy office culture and who are looking to build robust in-person working relationships with our in-house and customer teams

    • Requirements

    Qualifications, Experience and Knowledge Required

    Demographic Requirements

  • Open to all races

    • Years of Experience

  • Minimum 10 years of career history
  • At least 5 years having been spent doing hands on Software, Data or digital technical work
  • At least 5 years spent in a team lead or other senior role with some management / leadership responsibility
  • At least 2 years of client facing pre-sales and / or advisory experience

    • Education and Certification

  • BSc IT, Math / Stats, Engineering or other STEM degree or similar qualification
  • IT Industry certifications advantageous (Microsoft Certified, AWS Certified, Salesforce Certified, Oracle, Snowflake etc.)
  • Project Management, Business Process, Business Analysis and Technical Architecture methodology qualifications advantageous – e.g. SAFe, Agile, DevOps Project lifecycle, BABOK, TOGAF etc.

    • Skills Required

  • Experience in client facing sales, pre-sales, advisory and consulting activities
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Background in hands-on Software, Data or digital solution design and architecture and development (e.g. .NET or Java etc. background)
  • Up to speed and interested in a wide range of current trends in Cloud Adoption, Machine learning, AI and LLM developments, software architecture and data platform / data analytics
  • Ideally an understanding and interest in the workings of industry verticals such as banking, insurance, wealth & investments or retail, and willingness to continuously learn
  • Background in technical proposals writing, business requirements, functional requirements and technical architecture documentation
  • Strong understanding of Cloud technology – specifically AWS and Microsoft Azure with ability to provide top level advisory services on cloud adoption
  • Experience in agile project delivery of software or data projects

    • Personality traits

  • Outgoing and engaging
  • Ability to influence others
  • Happy to roll up the sleeves and do hands on tech and analysis work as required
  • Self-starter and self-motivator
  • Continuous learning attitude
  • Ability to prioritize tasks and deal with conflicting requirements
  • Achievement oriented Completer / Finisher
  • Collaborative nature
  • Able to performance manage others
  • Presentable and professional
  • High energy
  • Growth oriented mindset

    • Benefits

    Salary Structure

    Remuneration at Software Development Manager / Principal Technical consultant level

    Exact salary offered will be based on specific experience and skills and structured as follows :

  • Monthly basic
  • 13

    • th

    Cheque in Dec

  • Quarterly KPI performance-based commission
  • Profit based commission for turnkey projects managed by the Principal Consultant

    • Requirements

    Qualifications, Experience and Knowledge Required Demographic Requirements

  • Open to all races Years of Experience
  • Minimum 10 years of career history
  • At least 5 years having been spent doing hands on Software, Data or digital technical work
  • At least 5 years spent in a team lead or other senior role with some management / leadership responsibility
  • At least 2 years of client facing pre-sales and / or advisory experience Education and Certification
  • BSc IT, Math / Stats, Engineering or other STEM degree or similar qualification
  • IT Industry certifications advantageous (Microsoft Certified, AWS Certified, Salesforce Certified, Oracle, Snowflake etc.)
  • Project Management, Business Process, Business Analysis and Technical Architecture methodology qualifications advantageous – e.g. SAFe, Agile, DevOps Project lifecycle, BABOK, TOGAF etc. Skills Required
  • Experience in client facing sales, pre-sales, advisory and consulting activities
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Background in hands-on Software, Data or digital solution design and architecture and development (e.g. .NET or Java etc. background)
  • Up to speed and interested in a wide range of current trends in Cloud Adoption, Machine learning, AI and LLM developments, software architecture and data platform / data analytics
  • Ideally an understanding and interest in the workings of industry verticals such as banking, insurance, wealth & investments or retail, and willingness to continuously learn
  • Background in technical proposals writing, business requirements, functional requirements and technical architecture documentation
  • Strong understanding of Cloud technology – specifically AWS and Microsoft Azure with ability to provide top level advisory services on cloud adoption
  • Experience in agile project delivery of software or data projects Personality traits
  • Outgoing and engaging
  • Ability to influence others
  • Happy to roll up the sleeves and do hands on tech and analysis work as required
  • Self-starter and self-motivator
  • Continuous learning attitude
  • Ability to prioritize tasks and deal with conflicting requirements
  • Achievement oriented Completer / Finisher
  • Collaborative nature
  • Able to performance manage others
  • Presentable and professional
  • High energy
  • Growth oriented mindset
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