CDW Hiring for Managing Consultant – Data Governance – Digital Velocity at Vernon Hills, IL  Full Time

This position will primarily focus on data governance consulting and associated solutions. Data Governance areas of focus include data stewardship, metadata management, data security, data privacy, master data management, and information lifecycle management.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

Delivery

• Regularly serves in the lead consultant role on a project team to provide guidance to other team members. Serve as the executive program manager with responsibility for managing client expectations for specific Security projects, while seeking and fostering additional opportunities with clients. As part of this role, is responsible for managing the quality assurance process to deliver quality on-time
• Identifies all points of contact from the system perspective and establishes contact with necessary stakeholders
• Review the business and technical requirements from multiple user areas to ensure compatibility, identify gaps & inconsistencies and eliminate conflicting requirements
• Understands the business factors and motivators driving technology decisions with clients
• Participates in determining business requirements, technical requirements, and solution architecture for clients
• Provides input to final recommendations for technology solutions to meet business requirements
• Prepares and completes technical design inspection of other team members
• Gathers feedback and input from team members and works with senior project staff to optimize client relationship and improve quality
• Consistently achieves outstanding Client Satisfaction results on all consulting engagements
• Maintains accountability to work estimates and project financials
• Builds focused relationships with clients to identify business challenges
• Makes recommendations to solve client problems
• Complies with all time compliance and time entry guidelines
• Meets billable utilization targets

Practice Development: Supports activities that drive practice growth and profitability

Pre-Sales

• Directly interacts with clients, sales personnel and Sirius Presales Architects to identify, qualify, and validate client requirements for technology solutions. Pursuit activities include meeting with C-Suite personnel, creating and delivering presentations to drive Data solutions
• Creates solution prototypes and POCs which illustrate business value and garner client buy-in
• Provides technical perspective to ensure a realistic estimation of scope, cost and level of effort for proposal generation
• Creates proposals and contractually sound Statements of Work (SOWs), solution work estimates, and total solution pricing for profitable post-sales delivery integration, implementation and delivery. Provides significant and demonstrated services solution sales to meet practice goals
• Develops Cost/Benefit Analysis and rationale for large complex projects or programs with input from others on the account team

IP Development

• Provides technical leadership in the 2-3 core competencies and related offerings of technical specialty
• Conducts research & development work targeted to create frameworks, utilities, or best practices to enhance the efficiency and quality of client delivery efforts
• Cataloguing existing intellectual property (IP), determining strategic areas for IP development (including input into training and education plans), and evangelizing the use of practice IP by delivery teams
• Contributes and develops best practices, strategies, methodologies and documentation/templates. Occasionally presents externally as a thought leader at a regional

Staff Oversight:

• Directly supervises project staff with responsibility for ensuring engagement success and appropriate use of practice tools, methodology, deliverable preparation, and client presentation
• Leads code or other technical reviews and presents constructive feedback to technical team
• Mentors less senior personnel and serves as escalation point for their technical related project issues
• Steps into team leadership roles and empowers others to increase contribution and level of responsibility
• Training/Certifications – Engages in professional development, including obtaining industry related certifications as directed by management, to maintain continued growth in professional skills and knowledge
• Administrative Overhead – Respond to email, phone calls, complete time cards in a timely manner, expense reports and status reports as required

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics or a related field
• At least eight (8) years of related Data and Analytics work experience, to include at least two (2) years of leading data governance programs and/or hands-on work in data governance functional areas

Other Position Requirements

• Functional understanding of data governance principles and practices
• Practical experience delivering data governance capabilities
• Experience using or implementing data governance technologies, i.e., metadata management, data quality, master data management, data privacy, etc., including Informatica data governance tools (EDC, Axon, Informatica DQ, Informatica MDM), Collibra, Alation, Ataccama, or similar data governance vendor solutions
• Understanding of ETL techniques and workflows as they impact and relate to analytic solutions
• Exposure to cloud based analytic solutions and their role relative to traditional on-premise solutions
• Experience in analytic solution design and data visualization techniques
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with a wide variety of client and Sirius team members, including management and technical staff
• Demonstrated ability to understand a client’s requirements and present appropriate architectural options
• Demonstrated ability to work with wide variety of client staff including management and technical staff
• Demonstrated ability to provide guidance and leadership to less experienced technical team members, including delegating technical tasks, and resolving issues of poor technical execution without escalation
• Demonstrated ability to architect large projects from pre-sales Discovery to Solution Outline
• Demonstrated presentation and communication skills, including effectively communicating one-on-one, and in small and large groups, using a variety of presentation methods to sustain the audiences’ engagement
• Demonstrated time management and organizational skills; ability to handle multiple concurrent projects simultaneously
• Demonstrated ability to establish positive working relationships and conduct complex and important work critical to the organization in a team consulting environment
• Experience with modern application frameworks and architecture for web applications, mobile applications, and back-end services

Preferred Qualifications

• Consulting experience
• Certifications in relevant areas of specialty

Data Privacy and Security

• All Sirius employees are responsible to safeguard the information and information systems that they use or handle in the execution of their duties. Employees are obligated to know and perform their duties in accordance with Sirius policies, standards, and procedures related to security and report security violations to the appropriate Sirius authority.
• Participate at hire and annually in the Information Security Awareness training as well as other required training identified by the Human Resources department. Other data privacy and data security related regulatory training may be required based on your role

Essential Functions
This position exists to provide technical consulting solutions to customers and as such requires the ability to travel to and from customer sites and interact with customers on an ongoing and regular basis.

The above primary duties, responsibilities, and position requirements are not all inclusive.

CDW is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.