Principal Consultant

Location: Bryanston

Salary: Market Related

Job Function:

• Act as team lead and provide direction in solution design to other consultants at client site.
• Lead the preparation of client proposals; participate in RFP process; and participate in the identification and development of sales opportunities.
• Demonstrate expert working knowledge of WebMethods products and methodologies.  
• Train, coach, mentor, and assist others in a team effort. 
• Identify additional product/services opportunities in customer organization.
• Create and present functional or technical training materials
• Interprets business situations and uses best practices to improve products, processes and services
• Analyses and solves complex problems; considers existing solutions from a new perspective
• Develops new solutions and support others in solving complex problems
• Implements technical/ functional architecture for complex IT applications
• Coordinate and lead customer workshops
• Analyse functional requirements and provide detailed technical specification and effort estimation
• Knows the relevant competitors and their distinguishing characteristics in the market
• Technical expert in specialised area/industry and has technical knowledge in other areas
• Manage technical projects with low complexity or risk, if necessary.
• Manage colleagues in a professional manner and if required in a disciplinary capacity
• Presentations to clients and internal management to be conducted in an effective and professional manner.
• Considers and understands internal/external challenges and recommends best practices
• Adhere to company policies and procedures

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) in Computer Science or a related field
• Minimum of 10 years work experience with some supervisory
• A minimum of three certifications on current version of the relevant product suite. 
• A minimum of  one external certification in area of expertise
• Experience or training with three or more of the following areas:  
  • Object oriented programming (Java/C++/.NET)
  • XML
  • RDBMS (Oracle, Informix, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase, MySQL)
  • Operating Systems (Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, Windows)
  • EAI, middleware, or other integration experience 
  • Web servers (Netscape, Microsoft) or web application servers
  • CRM (Siebel, Clarify, Vantive...)
  • ERP (PeopleSoft, SAP, Baan, Oracle Applications, JDE)
  • B2B – RosettaNet, EDI, EBXML or industry-specific standards
  • Web development (JSF, Servlets, Portlets, JSP)
  • webMethods
  • Tibco, SeeBeyond, Vitria, etc. a plus.