Principal Consultant (Network Design) at Computacenter AG & Co. oHG

Principal Consultant (Network Design)

About the role
As a Computacenter Principal Consultant, you will assist in providing transformative technology solutions for the most visionary companies in the world. This takes imagination, relentless client service, and the tenacity to enable our clients to achieve their goals and delight our customers. Our top tier partnerships with leading-edge technology manufacturers keep us immersed across the broad spectrum of the IT ecosystem.

Along with designing and implementing single and multi-vendor technology solutions, you will have the opportunity to work within an industry-leading sales and technical sales team to understand our clients’ needs and craft sustainable roadmaps to achieve their goals.

From strategy to fulfillment to managed services, our engineering centric solutions enable our clients to leverage technology to accomplish more than they have ever envisioned. This role has a networking focus.

What you'll be doing

• Partner with business leaders to deliver services that support company objectives and that are consistent with Winning Together values.
• Act as a technical lead in technology solutions by doing the following:
  • Mentoring other Engineers;
  • Leading a team of resources on larger projects;
  • Reviewing the deliverables of other Engineers, as appropriate;
  • Acting as a point of escalation;
• Present technology topics at internal education sessions, and industry user group meetings and/or conferences.
• Be regarded as a thought leader by recommending new technologies, best practices and tools that support the growth of the business.
• Assess Customer environment and make design and solution recommendations.
• Act as liaison between Pre-Sales and Delivery teams.
• Provide design, deployment and implementation services of single or multi-vendor solutions.
• Handle issues escalated by Consultants and Lead Consultants.
• Troubleshoot multi-vendor issues.
• Lead a Project team.
• Stay current with vendor offerings and technology.
• Be available to meet the customers' IT needs.
• Achieve utilization targets.
• Embrace and support Computacenter’s mission and core values.

What you have

• 15+ years of professional experience in large enterprise environments.
• Professional networking certifications a plus.
• Deployment experience with one or more of the following: Cisco, Arista, Juniper.
• Legally eligible to work in the United States.
• Subject matter expert within your focused technology stack.
• Ability to design complex multi-technology solutions.
• Ability to design complex technical solutions and provide input into bid, project and technical documents.
• Broad knowledge of the business benefits that technical solutions can provide.
• Ability to lead and organize a large virtual technical team, with good negotiation skills and people management skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with multiple wireless vendor designs and deployments.
• Demonstrated confidence to deliver customer-facing discussions.

What you can expect

There’s so much more to enjoy about being at Computacenter than just having a rewarding career. In addition to offering competitive compensation plans and long-term career opportunities, we provide an attractive mix of benefit plans to contribute to your good health, future financial security, and peace of mind.

About us

Computacenter is a leading independent technology partner, trusted by large corporate and public sector organizations. We help our world-renowned customers to source, transform, and manage their IT infrastructure to deliver digital transformation, enabling users and their business. We’re a public company quoted on the London FTSE 250 (CCC.L) and employ over 20,000 people worldwide. In the US, we support some of the country’s best-known businesses with regional hubs in San Francisco and Irvine, CA; Norcross, GA; Plano, TX; and New York City; and Integration Centers in Silicon Valley and Atlanta. www.computacenter.com/us

Nearest Major Market: San Francisco
Nearest Secondary Market: Oakland