Senior Consultant - (Japanese or Korean Speaker)

Mission:

The Senior Consultant has overall architecture ownership and governance for all solutions within a particular customer environment, including holistic capacity and availability Management across the customer infrastructure. The Senior Consultant will own life-cycle management and technology road-map planning with a focus on solution innovation. The Senior Consultant will interface to Senior level customer stakeholders in providing advice. In addition, the Senior Consultant provides high level input, oversight and quality assurance for all consulting services including assessment, design and implementation of Solution Sets. Leads and owns technical design in implementation of technical solutions. Ensures quality technical solutions and drive towards the highest levels of customer satisfaction and improvement in professional standards. Additionally, the Senior Consultant contributes to advisory consulting services potentially relating to a range of digital services.

The position reports to: Head of Consulting ASEAN, Japan and Korea

Key Responsibilities:

- Maintain overall architecture ownership and governance for all solutions within a particular customer environment.

- Ensure life-cycle management and technology road-map planning with a focus on solution innovation.

- Assess feasibility, identify and clarify technical, delivery and operational risks for proposed new technologies and services.

- Provide governance and quality assurance for the delivery of all technical services.

- Lead and deliver consulting services when required, including development of High Level Designs, Low Level Designs, Site Migration Plans and communication and liaison with other stakeholders to ensure successful implementation.

- Ensure best practice is leveraged in providing the solutions and services to target accounts.

- Excellent technical skills in solution design and architecture, especially on IT network, security and cloud services

- Establish structure and contribute material for knowledge management so that we become a learning organisation

- Advanced knowledge and expertise providing support to customers, on all services, transferring customers requirements into a solution based on client's products, solutions and services. Owns quality assurance for all low-level technical design from concept to subsequent implementation; and when required, responsible for design, configuration, testing and commissioning of solutions.

- Responsible for governance and oversight, ensuring technical management of deployment issues and problems.

- Ensure adoption of Professional Services (PS) processes, methods and tools throughout Australasia.

- Identify and create business opportunities for target customers and prospects.

- When required, participate in the tendering process and development of proposals in line with customer needs, liaising and qualifying with other colleagues as necessary. Present technical solutions to customers both formally and informally as required. Supports in the development of customer SLAs.

- Stay abreast of technical issues, options and advancements within the internetworking industry relevant to the client's portfolio.

- Provide a consistently high quality technical service to target customers ensuring that customer satisfaction is maintained or improved.

- Ability to liaise with customers unaccompanied and be a recognized authority on client's products and services.

- Provision of skilled presentations to prospective customers on the technical solutions and services offered by clients with minimum support.

- Responsibility for all aspects of the technical compatibility of customer requirements with the products and services offered by client.

Knowledge, Skills, Certifications and Experience:

Abilities and profile

Ability to: engage and partner with customer at a high level governance and detailed technical level

Must be highly customer focused and willing to champion the customer needs throughout the organisation

engage and partner with customer at all levels, including high level governance and at a detailed technical level

ensure delivery of solutions which provide high value throughout the full life cycle of the contract

deliver high value, consulting services as appropriate

Work with and enhance key partner and vendor relationships as required to deliver fully integrated solutions

Profile:

Good problem solving, organisational and communication skills

Must be capable of working across cultural boundaries

Positive thinker, confident, presentable, enthusiastic, resilient

Able to multi-task, to take ownership, to prioritise and to meet deadlines

No difficulties travelling internationally

Capable of building and maintaining good relationships

Capable of working in a matrix organisation

Capable of mentoring and leading less experienced technical staff

Education, qualifications, and certifications:

Engineering Degree or similar in relevant technical field

Vendors certifications (e.g. Juniper, Z-Scaler, Cisco)

Consulting practitioner (such as TOGAF or similar)

Experience: Minimum of 10+ years related work experience in customer facing organizations within the telecom or IT industry or equivalent. Experience and/or knowledge of the following key technologies:

Network, Security, Infrastructure and Cloud

*Please note that we are hiring on behalf of our client in Telecommunication sector.