Principal Technical Consultant Openlink

The Role : This is an exciting opportunity to join ION as a Principal Technical Consultant. As a Principal Consultant, you will be responsible for project technical oversight and leadership, technical architecture and design, mentoring consultants, and leading and participating in internal initiatives to improve delivery. You will work with business analysts, clients, and team members to design and implement product extensions, configurations, and interfaces.

Key Responsibilities :

• Assume a lead and / or oversight role on project implementations working closely with the project manager, client leads, and project team ensuring implementation quality and project success
• Assume a role of Solution and Integration Architect for system wide implementation, health checks, technical assessments, and other client engagements
• Assume hands-on project implementation duties during an implementation
• Follow project delivery methodology standards
• Motivated for continuous improvement of skills and product development
• Contribute to the creation and authoring of best practices
• Lead some internal initiatives for process improvement
• Participate in presales, RFPs, scope definition, estimations
• Act as go-to resource for complex ideas and questions from the field in their vertical and domain specialty​
• Identify sales opportunities for additional consulting work while on a project
• Able to multitask, prioritize, and take on challenging tasks
• Interact professionally with a diverse group of managers, team leads and subject matter experts using strong presentation skills
• Interpret client business needs and offer strategic designs to implement efficiently
• Serve as mentor for consultants in one or more technical areas of the system
• Create training material for internal use (cross-training and developing team)
• Create designs that offer solution reusability, scalability, and maintainability
• Present the technical solution to both client executives and user-level audiences
• Deliver client technical training
• Participate in Implementation Analysis (IA) for new clients as well as upgrades; provide detailed solutioning in the Requirements Traceability Matrix and Technical Upgrade document as well as accurate estimates and assumptions to back up the estimates
• Track project team estimates to actuals as well as deliverable quality rating for the team
• Maintain full chargeability on client account(s) as assigned
• Travel to customer site to work on projects as needed

Required Skills, Experience and Qualifications :

About us We’re a diverse group of visionary innovators who provide trading and workflow automation software, high-value analytics, and strategic consulting to corporations, central banks, financial institutions, and governments. Founded in 1999, we’ve achieved tremendous growth by bringing together some of the best and most successful financial technology companies in the world.