Practice Architect II AI/ML

TEKsystems•Remote, OR

10d•$148,200 - $222,400•Remote

About The Position

Think of TEKsystems Global Services (TGS) as the growth solution for enterprises today. We unleash growth through technology, strategy, design, execution and operations with a customer-first mindset for bold business leaders. We deliver cloud, data and customer experience solutions. Our partnerships with leading cloud, design and business intelligence platforms fuel our expertise. We value deep relationships, dedication to serving others and inclusion. We drive positive outcomes for our people and our business, and we stay true to our commitments and act in harmony with our words. We exist to create significant opportunity for people to achieve fulfillment through career success. Ready to join us? Here’s what the opportunity supported through our TGS Talent Acquisition Team requires: The Practice Architect II (PA II) position is a leadership position in the organization that is responsible for managing multiple consulting and delivery projects and account teams/programs. The PA II provides consulting and delivery assurance of services for clients through a range of internal and external functions in the following areas: Consulting, Account Interaction, Service Delivery and Practice Delivery responsibilities. The position of Practice Architect II is distinguished from more senior Practice Architect positions by the nature of the engagements or programs involved; deal sizes range from transactional solutions of < $1M to multi year outsourcing solutions of > $20M. As a second level Practice Architect, a PA II is expected to have the experience and background to perform all the duties described below for engagements that are focused on consulting/delivery management within the defined subject matter area, including resource management, deliverables development, project planning and executions, adherence to contract attributes and costing, customer interaction, and other key aspects of solution based managed services. For a PA II, these engagements will typically be delivered for a North America customer or at the customer location, usually North American based. They are expected to have adequate level skills required for complex deliverable-based, fully outsourced, or extremely large scale engagements or programs and lead the delivery effort to a larger cross-functional project/program. This role may require up to 50% travel.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree (required) — or equivalent, relevant experience.
Sufficient understanding of Services Outsourcing, PMI PMBOK. PMP, IAOP (Outsourcing Professional), or other relevant certification
Strong conceptual and analytical skills, which demonstrate out of the box problem solving
Proven ability to appropriately prioritize and plan complex work in a rapidly changing environment
Team player with experience leading and collaborating cross-teams to deliver successful solutions
Excellent oral and written communication skills (English language).
Superior people and personnel management skills.
Cloud Agnostic
Expert Level

Responsibilities

Gain a clear understanding of customers’ business requirements and their technical requirements based upon the developed solution and agreed statement of work (SOW).
Understand, develop, and mature the solution design by collaborating with customers and stakeholders to manage their expectations and resolve project, stakeholder, and delivery issues in a timely manner.
Facilitate internal communication and coordinate the assembly of a delivery team for new engagements to include practice support, delivery (regional and/or practice), and account team members.
Consolidate delivery status and agreed costing information across the project stakeholders.
Ensure delivery escalation procedures are addressed and communicated to client, consultants, and managers.
Implement knowledge management strategy and communicate process and procedures for knowledge transfer from sales/solutions to delivery.
Perform delivery risk and issue management and facilitate issue resolution with proper notification to all affected parties.
Identify and coordinate the delivery change control process.
Perform periodic project/program analysis, product line review, and product line “health checks” with practice and delivery resources.
Examine customer reference-ability and establish on-going relationships with the customer and account team members.
Refine practice pipeline and product line attributes based upon metrics and analysis as well as overall fit within the marketplace and technological changes.
Support the development and execution of an Account Strategy in collaboration with internal stakeholders.
Capture, develop, and refine intellectual property (IP) based upon projects, programs, and engagements; develop IP to be reusable for future training and delivery requirements.
Coordinate subject matter material with team members for development of best practices for product lines and delivery improvements.
Understand and manage customer requirements (delivery and environmental factors) to ensure contract understanding and acceptance for deliverables, cost, contract type, timeline, risk and assumptions, and customer satisfaction.
Ensure delivery methodology is understood by team from project initiation to project closeout; sales/solution to delivery knowledge transfer.
Financial and contractual responsibility for engagement profitability.
Maintain awareness for additional business opportunities and support pursuit of future business through quality results and escalation to internal stakeholders when additional business opportunities may present themselves.
Ensure delivery management methodology is followed on all client opportunities.
Mentor, manage and develop product/project team members. Team size varies from 3 team members up to >10 team members.
Conduct annual reviews and provide feedback throughout the year on employee performance where required.
Ensure Human Resources policies and procedures are communicated and executed according to internal and consultant HR policies.