Consulting Principal Lead

Job ID: 201477
Required Travel : Minimal
Managerial - Yes
Location: :Australia- Sydney (Amdocs Site)

Who are we?

Founded in Sydney, Australia, and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Sourced Group are market leaders in providing cloud transformation services to the most highly regulated, security conscious organizations in the world. With operations in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Malaysia Singapore and the United States we work with the Global 200 to drive business transformation through cloud and IT services. Sourced Group are an AWS Premier Partner, Microsoft Azure Gold Managed Partner, Google Premier Partner and have worked with large financial services and regulated enterprises.

Sourced has joined the recently launched Amdocs Cloud division (Amdocs are a leading provider of software and services to over 350+ communications and media companies). It’s an exciting time for us, as we are shaping a newly formed global Cloud Consulting arm through combining three strategic Amdocs acquisitions; Sourced Group, Kenzan & DevOps Group. Our combined deep expertise in public cloud and highly regulated industries. We are excited to continue the Sourced journey and leverage Amdocs’ scale to further accelerate our growth.

About the Role

We are looking for experienced, and passionate leaders who want to be part of growing a world class consulting organization that is not like the others. We are a small company that makes a large impact. Our people work in partnership to take on the hardest, most complex work and get things done where others have failed. At Sourced we've worked hard to create a culture that challenges, excites and allows for continuous personal and professional growth.

Reporting to the Head of Consulting, our Principal Consultants are an integral part of the leadership team. As part of this industry-leading team you define and implement cloud-based solutions that set the benchmark for best-in-class practices and enterprise architecture guidelines.

What will your job look like?

What you’ll be responsible for:

• Consulting Excellence

• Builds and nurtures deep working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, as well as their counterparts in our clients and partners
• Leads a team of Sourced cloud consulting experts, develops and implements strategy and execution plans for strategic customer engagements with both global and regional impact, aligned to business goals
• Sets standards for good communication, sound decision making, and active problem-solving
• Reviewing business plans against the organisation's strategic mandate
• Considers the long-term application and commercial viability of current research activities
• Brings deep technical expertise and can consult effectively at all levels of an organisation
• Ability to influence at scale 1:many
• Trusted adviser for our enterprise clients and requires the skills to excel at all aspects of business development, people management, relationship development, delivery of cloud solutions and program management in their accounts, following a player/coach model.
• Driving C-level discussions and working closely with both our clients and our Sourced consulting team to tailor and define cloud adoption and DevOps strategies
• Providing guidance and support to business and application delivery teams to fully demonstrate the benefits of cloud technology
• Supporting clients in troubleshooting issues in their test and/or production environments and identifying root cause and solutions
• Deep experience/credibility in delivering solutions in security conscious and heavily regulated environments

• Team Building and Leadership

• Form strong team relationships by leading, coaching, and motivating team members, and identifying and resolving blockers or conflicts
• Helping others generate and identify breakthrough ideas, fresh perspectives and new opportunities
• Creating and promoting a culture and environment that fosters highly performant teams
• Identify and serve as mentor to “up and coming” consultants
• Work with the executive leadership to assess talent and related action plans
Be part of recruiting and onboarding to enable new team members

• Knowledge sharing and Community

• Developing, managing and continuously improving core internal processes. Creating documentation to support learning and reuse.
• Be a key contributor to our systemic learning and enablement approach to level up our team members on complex cloud transformation projects – so that clients can feel the difference
• Continue to specialize and deepen knowledge
• Able to teach Sourced learning programs to our employees and to our clients
• Create cloud transformation playbooks and best practices to help clients realize optimal business value from their cloud investments
• Identify and ensure best practices are shared globally to enable our teams to turbo charge their clients’ cloud journey
• Contribute to project retrospective and knowledge capture processes
Speaks at regional/global conferences and has an impact in the cloud community

What will your job look like

• Growth Strategy
  

• Support pursuit teams to land multi-year transformation deals
• Work with leaders to ensure the implementation of new offerings and solutions within your accounts
• Be our brand evangelist and thought leader
• Write White Papers and speak at industry and partner events about Cloud transformation.
• Presenting case studies and cloud solutions at meetups, conferences and technology events
• Identifying opportunities to access new markets, new services and new clients and carry out pre-sales activities
• Adapting priorities and business plans in response to changing market/client demands
• Creating and implementing work plans on a global scale for assigned projects, programs, and/or clients against established operational objectives
Being a thought leader externally to clients and internally to our consultants

What you will bring to the role:

• Demonstrated ability to articulate a position on a topic to influence significant global decisions within our Cloud Business Unit or clients

• A track record of facilitating the exploration of new ideas and leading innovation among teams. Strong facilitation skills with demonstrated experience leading scoping and design sessions, sprint planning, and managing geographically dispersed teams
• You can determine what is best for the organisation overall and create an environment for others to do the same

• Thought Leadership and evangelism experience demonstrated by presenting at an industry forums and events
• Delivered significant outcomes at security conscious and heavily regulated organisations
• Has achieved recognition within the profession for contributions in thought leadership
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Ruby, PowerShell etc.) – working with deployment automation configuration management technologies such as Puppet, Chef & Ansible
• Logging & event management tools such as Splunk, ELK Stack & SumoLogic
• Proven knowledge of backup & recovery procedures and technologies, data storage and retention requirements
• Proven knowledge in scalable network design and implementation
• Programming experience in Ruby, Python, .NET, Java or other
• Database experience with Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL or other
• Test automation experience

• In addition to your strong consulting and technical skills you will be a high EQ individual that understands the value and importance of quality team relationships. This role will suit anyone who is satisfied by achieving outcomes in an environment that is collaborative and professional, with a strong one team culture
• You create trust and operate with humility
• You move with urgency and focus and take responsibility seriously
• You think rigorously. You use reasoning from first principles to get to the right answer
• Excellent verbal, presentation and written communication skills including creating usable documentation and tools
• Ability to travel to different locations

All you need is...

• Solid track record of enterprise IT consulting experience or substantial professional services experience. (Financial services industry preferred)
• Extensive experience driving and architecting large-scale, secure, and high availability solutions in the Google Cloud Platform environment preferred or AWS Cloud environment good to have
• at least 10 years work related experience
• Technical / People Leader able to lead complex project
• Good communication skills and consulting experience
• E xperience in cloud deployment templating using offerings such as CloudFormation and/or Terraform
• Extensive experience working with configuration management technologies such as Puppet, Chef, and/or Ansible
• Expertise in CI/CD methodologies, processes and tools, such as Jenkins, CodePipeline, CodeDeploy or other
• Professional and/or Specialty level AWS certifications
• A strong understanding of public cloud security principles .
Extensive experience working in Agile project delivery teams and the ability to lead scrums and Stand Ups where required

Why you will love this job:

We are very proud of our team and are protective of the culture that we continue to build. We believe that everyone brings something to the table and encourage transparency and candour. With a room full of technical gurus, it’s important that we ensure everyone has a voice and is respected, oh and we also enjoy social events too.

Amdocs is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce