Practice Lead - Cloud and Infrastructure Solutions

Summary

Join DGR Systems, a premier technology consulting company, as a Cloud and Infrastructure Practice Lead. You will lead a team of infrastructure architects and engineers, collaborate with other organizational functions, and set the team's direction and activities. This role requires strong communication skills, a consultative approach, and a passion for continuous learning. You will bring technical expertise, team leadership, and business acumen to the company. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in infrastructure solution consulting and team leadership. DGR Systems offers a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• 10 years or progressive experience in infrastructure solution consulting with 2 years in team leadership
• Proven consultative mindset and experience with the ability to integrate complex elements and customer requirements into innovative technical architectures
• Industry-leading experience with cloud, hybrid infrastructures and adjacent technologies, architecture designs, migrations, and industry standards
• Advanced understanding and experience with server, storage and/or networking products required
• Excellent communication, collaboration, negotiation, organizational, presentation, product demonstration, writing, and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated client-focus solutions provider excelling at understanding customer needs and translating those needs to solutions
• Experience in staff planning, resource management, and recruiting technology talent
• Serves as a role model to others for translating complex and technical information
• Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both technical and non-technical audiences

Responsibilities

• Provide practice ownership through the understanding and evangelizing of how technology solutions can help solve business challenges and lead the development of services to meet those needs
• Develop a high-performing team by assisting in hiring competent talent, prioritizing development, leading by example, and preparing people to take on more complex roles and engagements
• Ensure the execution of service delivery for our clients to a standard of excellence expected by our clients
• Consultatively engage with existing and prospective clients, partnered with our sales organization, to help identify technologies to solve client challenges and to design approaches for the deployment of those technologies to meet their needs
• Engage with the vendor partner community to align our team and focus with their sales and technical solution development where it makes sense
• Lead technical presentations, demonstrations, design sessions, proofs of concept, and pilots to explain, demonstrate, and prove to our customers the capabilities of Cloud and Infrastructure products and services, and how we can make their businesses more successful
• Craft, review, and present statements of work to our clients to outline service engagements with them
• Cultivate a current understanding of the IT marketplace for related technologies
• Oversee pipeline, presales, resourcing and utilization of assigned team members to program engagement requests. Oversees project tasks and milestones are completed on time, within scope, and with quality and accuracy. Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure project success inclusive of timesheet management and project completion management
• Lead the training, development, coaching, performance management, selection and separation processes of assigned team members
• All other duties as assigned

Preferred Qualifications

Preference will be given to candidates who currently reside with the Midwest, Southeast and Southwest areas of the United States

Benefits

• Group Health Care Plans (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Company Paid Life Insurance (Basic & AD&D)
• Company Paid Short Term & Long Term Disability
• Company Paid Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
• Voluntary Insurance Options (Voluntary Life, Accident Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance)
• 401(k) with Company Match
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Certification Reimbursement
• Work From Home Program
• Wellness Resources