Exec Technology Strategist

CDW • Dallas, TX

372d • $137,600 - $172,000

About The Position

Bring your IT career and talents to CDW, where you can have a greater impact, be inspired by our mission and excited about your career and future. A Fortune 200 leader, we're the driven professionals and technology experts companies turn to most to solve their IT challenges. At CDW, we make it happen, together. Trust, connection, and commitment are at the heart of how we work together to deliver for our customers. It's why we're coworkers, not just employees. Coworkers who genuinely believe in supporting our customers and one another. We collectively forge our path forward with a level of commitment that speaks to who we are and where we're headed. We're proud to share our story and Make Amazing Happen at CDW. The CDW Executive Technology Strategist "ETS" provides thought leadership in IT transformation while aligning IT strategies with core business initiatives and processes to better leverage resources and infrastructure in achieving quantifiably tangible results. The Executive Technology Strategist provides consultative leadership across the full range of technical aptitudes. The ETS candidate must demonstrate the ability to assess a client's business drivers for a given initiative and translate them into qualifiable, quantifiable and tactical solutions. This person is able to identify and qualify business development across the organization while evangelizing sales and building a pipeline of both short-term and longer-term opportunities. The Executive Technology Strategist provides recommendations pertaining to key objectives in which cutting edge technical solutions solve a given challenge. This person illustrates the alignment (or misalignment) between strategic goals and key business decisions regarding products and services; partners and suppliers; organizational requirements and capabilities; and key business and IT initiatives. The ETS works to develop an integrated view of the business by making technical recommendations pertaining to information gleaned from client engagements as well as solve problems by analyzing requirements and evaluating alternatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business or computer/technical related field or equivalent experience.
• Deep technical knowledge in the following pillars of technology: Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP), M&A technical competency, Containers, A&O, SDDC, DevOps, DR/HA/Run book/BIA/BCP technologies, ServiceNow, APM.
• Ten or more years' experience in assessing business drivers and translating them into qualifiable, quantifiable and tactical solutions.
• Five or more years' experience establishing strategic direction.
• This position may require the ability to travel on average of 50%.
• High degree of organization and attention to detail.
• Ability to work weekends and/or off hours as necessary to meet job requirements.
• Exceptional technical and non-technical communications skills.
• Broad knowledge of IT infrastructure, applications, operating systems, high availability and IT communications.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate, lead, build teams, work independently, and recommend business strategies.
• Exceptional meeting facilitation skills.
• Excellent creative writing, technical writing, and documentation skills.
• Strong business skills.
• Exceptional leadership and team skills.
• Ability to work in fast-paced, high-pressure environments.
• Demonstrates skills in collaboration with virtual teams, cross-functional groups and is able to solve complex problems.
• Experience providing project oversight, management, technical leadership or engineer mentoring.
• Ability to understand, remember, and apply oral and/or written instructions or other information. Ability to organize thoughts and ideas into understandable terminology. Ability to multi-task, organize and prioritize. Ability to apply common sense in performing job. Ability to understand and follow basic instructions and guidelines. Ability to travel as needed.

Responsibilities

• Act as a consultative strategist to the CIO, CTO, VP of Infrastructure and other key leadership.
• Provide consultative support of related opportunities across all geographies.
• Be a key technical advisor consulting on leading edge technologies and possess deep technical knowledge in the following pillars of technology: Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP), M&A technical competency, Containers, A&O, SDDC, DevOps, DR/HA/Run book/BIA/BCP technologies, ServiceNow, APM.
• Deliver presentations to clients, potential clients, colleagues, and management.
• Report on the client needs, problems, interests, current market states, competitive activities, and potential for new products/services.
• Provide knowledgeable insight on competitive offerings, products, applications, services, market conditions, competitive activities, advertising, and promotional trends through the reading of pertinent literature and consulting with marketing and technical services.
• Demonstrate strategic time management and multitasking skills.
• Effectively accelerate opportunity pipeline with predictable business results that exceed revenue targets.
• Build and deliver highly technical documentation outlining: opportunity, discovered data, and recommendations.
• Identify and focus on priorities while appropriately setting expectations with client, colleagues and management.
• Provide thought leadership based on customer requirements and restrictions.
• Exhibit excellent communication skills through creative writing, technical writing and oral interactions.
• Demonstrate strong client service and interpersonal skills.
• Provide a high degree of collaboration with sales personnel. Involve appropriate resources to ensure the successful outcome of engagements and subsequent projects.
• Develop intellectual property (e.g., whitepapers, deliverable templates, solutions, case studies, etc.).
• Provide feedback to management groups regarding trends and opportunities.
• Participate in project definition, scope, objectives, risks and approach.
• Work closely with CDW engineers to formalize solutions that were discovered in ETS lead workshops.

Benefits

• Pay range: $137,600 - $172,000, depending on experience and skill set
• Annual bonus target of $35,000 subject to terms and conditions of plan
• Merit Eligible Role
• Bonus Program Yes - Other
• Benefits overview: https://cdw.benefit-info.com/

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees