Technology Principal Consultant Job at Vision IT

Job Title: Technology Principal Consultant
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Employer: Vision IT

Job Description:
• The offered position primarily involves leading or participating in the selling of Technology Consulting projects to customers. This involves the extension of a comprehensive consulting offering towards customers, winning and executing consulting assignments.
• The role of a Technology Consultant is one of the key representatives for Ericsson towards our customers. You should show a strong sales orientation, broad end to end view of Technology and have strong influencing and negotiation skills with focus on opportunities that generate leverage for Ericsson sales.

Key responsibilities include:
• Drives consulting engagements from lead generation to contract fulfillment in agreement with Key Account Manager (KAM) and/or Engagement Practice (EP).
• Analyses complex customer requirements and propose a range of solutions, with associated value argumentation and recommendation(s).
• When applicable, participate as a member of Core 3 team with specialist knowledge.
• Maintains relationships with Ericsson VP and KAM level to assure satisfaction and trust.
• Establishes contact with key decision makers in the customer organization on high level (CEO, CTO and/or CFO) in order to contribute to higher sales volumes for Ericsson.
• Identifies, scopes, and gets customer commitment for (Technology) consulting opportunities, inside and outside projects and Ericsson portfolio to contribute to higher sales volumes.
• Establishes project governance. Supervises a number of projects/programs, often taking a role in the steering group.
• Manage teams of less experienced Solution Architect or Service Engineers in Customer Projects to ensure that they are delivered according to expectations and plans.
• Performs and coaches others to continuously document knowledge to enable an effective knowledge sharing process and organizational development.
• Creates/drives thought leadership to enable organizational competence development, new engagement opportunities and more efficient, effective future sales and delivery.

Experience and Qualifications:
• Strong capability in two or more of the following areas: Network Strategy Consulting including Radio Network Modernization (LTE), Voice and Network Transformation, Cloud Transformation; Convergence ; CEM and Data Monetization; IP Networks; IP security.
• Capabilities in carrying out Network strategy formulation and technology planning, Network baseline and topology assessment, Network planning and optimization, Understanding of network KPIs, service KPIs.
• Strong understanding of and experience in database functional and performance design including RDBMS, ACID, NoSQL, Columnar Storage, Indexing and sharding, joins, OLAP slicing and dicing, HBase and Hadoop.
• Experience in system design and multi-stream ingest, event/log parsing, data preparation and ETL, univariate and multivariate statistical analysis and A/B/N testing algorithms using nominal and numerical data.
• Experience and deep knowledge analytics-at-rest solutions and real-time analytics solutions with low latency-to-analysis requirements.
• Experience using analytics tools and libraries such as R, Mahout, HP Vertica, Greenplum, Teradata and visualization tools such as Tableau, Pentaho etc.
• Experience in designing efficient data models, extending existing data models and mapping them to NoSQL systems.
• Conceptual understanding of APIs and interfaces: SOAP, Web, JSON, ODBC, JDBC, Thrift.
• Strong understanding of wireless network elements, PM counters, OSS systems, tradeoffs in IP network performance in collecting large amount of network data is preferred.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills and ability to work with 3PP vendors.
• Good understanding of Economics of telecom networks and services.
• Understanding of business planning and modelling ROI & TCO, Understanding of operator strategies and business models.
• Is pro-active, with strong communication (written, spoken and presentation), creativity, problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Is capable of working both independently and leading teams and be comfortable working in unstructured situations and solving non-standard problems.
• BS Degree in engineering (IT, Telecom, Computer Science) and MBA is preferred.
• Preferably over 10 years relevant experience, of which approx 5 years in the area of Solution Architect/Manager.

Travel: Within Sub Saharan Africa

How to Apply:
Interested and qualified applicants should apply online or send their Cover Letter and CV to hr@visionit.com.ng

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