Senior Principal Technology Consultant

Hewlett Packard Enterprise • All, Ontario, Canada, ON

1d • CA$172,000 - CA$222,000 • Remote

About The Position

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is hiring a Senior Principal Technology Consultant to provide technology consulting to external customers and internal project teams. The role provides technical support and leadership in creating and delivering technology solutions aligned with customers’ business needs, builds trusted customer relationships, and contributes technical knowledge and methods to the company’s solutions portfolio. It also shapes technical direction and strategies, supports customer satisfaction and revenue goals, and helps generate business opportunities through technical support for proposals.

The consultant is a recognized technical authority who makes substantial contributions to significant HPE products, projects, and strategic or architectural direction. The position provides technical leadership for major project and program work, connects people across functions, mentors others, and contributes to the HPE technical community. It is strategically responsible for detailed cloud-solution design and for leading large, cross-functional teams through solution requirements, architecture, and implementation deliverables. The role advises customer senior leadership, guides technical resolution of complex issues, supports sales and proposal development, and contributes to the company’s market position.

This role is designated Remote/Teleworker, with work primarily performed from home. The expected annual base salary range is USD 158,500–321,000 in California or USD 140,000–321,000 in Texas, and CAD 172,000–222,000 in Ontario. Actual offers may vary based on location, experience, education, training, and skills; variable incentives may also be offered. HPE describes its benefits as supporting physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing and offers career-development programs.

Requirements

• 12 or more years of professional experience.
• A bachelor’s or master’s equivalent degree in computer science or a related area of study.
• Ability to develop solutions reusable across multiple customer sites that improve enterprise availability, performance, maintainability, and agility.
• Ability to develop innovative reusable solutions and workarounds, demonstrating deep technical knowledge of affected products, processes, and customer environments.
• Broad knowledge of additional business units, third parties, competitors, and business drivers.
• Advanced subject-matter expertise in HPEN Juniper products, applied technologies, and processes, including vendor interoperability in complex IT infrastructures.
• Ability to define interoperability issues between vendors’ products and recognized expertise in one or more technologies across the region.
• Vendor or industry certification in more than one discipline area.
• Experience troubleshooting a range of significant multi-vendor products.
• Ability to communicate new offerings across multiple business units and demonstrate innovation.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams in delivery of multiple solutions across multiple technologies.
• Ability to operate and present at all organizational levels and in public forums, facilitate business discussions, and lead those discussions.
• Ability to represent the organization in customer sales presentations and explain the benefits of working with the business.
• Ability to lead cross-department production of proposals for complex customer solutions.
• Ability to lead, coach, and mentor others in consulting skills.
• Ability to develop and win new opportunities using consulting skills, and to maintain and develop strategic client engagements.
• Ability to relate risks and challenges to other client efforts.
• Ability to develop detailed project plans and work breakdown structures, and to produce architecture specifications mapping customer business requirements to technologies.
• Strong client and vendor management skills.
• High-level technical leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide technology consulting to external customers and internal project teams, including technical support and leadership in creating and delivering solutions for customer business needs.
• Build and maintain effective customer relationships as a trusted advisor and support customer satisfaction goals.
• Maintain knowledge of emerging technologies and industry and market domains, and contribute technical knowledge and methodologies to the company’s solutions portfolio.
• Shape technical direction and strategies within HPE and for external customers.
• Support chargeability or internal project expense-relief goals, revenue goals, customer satisfaction, profitability, and new business opportunities.
• Provide detailed technical designs for cloud solutions and analyze and develop cloud technology solutions.
• Lead large cross-functional teams, including technical management of client staff, to complete solution requirements, architecture, and implementation deliverables.
• Set technical direction to resolve complex issues and deliver solutions on time using innovative methods that meet customer expectations.
• Provide advanced technical consulting and advice for proposals and solution design.
• Advise customer senior leadership and set strategic direction based on HPE solutions and products.
• Work with peers outside the immediate organization to characterize complex technology or process problems and develop solutions; independently drive technical problems to resolution.
• Develop strategies to strengthen the company’s marketplace position.
• Participate in the company professions program and Practice Improvement activities, and model knowledge sharing and reuse.
• Encourage participation and contributions to the professional community.
• Produce externally published material and present regularly at multi-customer technology conferences.
• Counsel and mentor team members and extend teamwork across projects, practices, and business groups.
• Maintain and regularly revisit a network of senior-level customers.
• Lead sales activities for a specific area, provide clear direction to activity owners, and develop sales strategies, ideas, and collateral.
• Lead cross-department production of proposals for complex customer solutions, serving as a key strategist.

Benefits

• Benefits intended to support team members’ and their loved ones’ physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.
• Career and professional development programs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal