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World Wide Technology

Application Dependency Mapping

London, United Kingdom

Why WWT?

Come join WWT, where we utilize our expertise in thought leadership and advanced technical skills to tackle our customers' problems and deliver effective solutions. As part of our team, you will play a crucial role in a project that involves transitioning and consolidating technology services for a global customer. Your extensive knowledge of integrations, technical dependencies, and future state requirements will be invaluable in this endeavor. Want to work with highly motivated individuals on high-performance teams? Join WWT today!

At World Wide Technology, we work together to make a new world happen. Our important work benefits our clients and partners as much as it does our people and communities across the globe. WWT is dedicated to achieving its mission of creating a profitable growth company that is also a Great Place to Work for All. We achieve this through our world-class culture, generous benefits and by delivering cutting-edge technology solutions for our clients.

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WWT was founded in 1990 in St. Louis, Missouri. We employ more than 10,000 people globally and closed nearly $20 billion in revenue in 2023. We have an inclusive culture and believe our core values are the key to company

and employee success. WWT is proud to have been included on the FORTUNE "100 Best Places to Work For®" list 12 years in a row!

What is the Enterprise Solutions and Architecture Team and why join?

Collaborate and be a part of a team of knowledgeable and trustworthy individuals. As the leading force, the ES&A team collaborates with our customers to implement major technological changes and enhancements to address business obstacles. We utilize cutting-edge tools and technology to automate and coordinate numerous components, ensuring that "transformational" becomes the "steady state". ES&A is a group of professional services within Infrastructure Services (IS) that directly partners with sales/account teams and customers' executive leadership to drive business transformation based on their visions and strategies. The team combines our very broad and technically diverse engineering and management teams to establish the technical foundation solutions for our projects and customer experiences. Using engineering brilliance, along with a high degree of team collaboration, the team leverages extensive technologies and provides increased delivery efficiencies.

What will you be doing?

The Application Dependency Mapping Lead performs a lead role to create a comprehensive and accurate representation of the dependencies between various components, such as databases, web servers, APIs, third-party services, and other software modules as part of customer engagements. The Lead Consultant may lead multiple customer projects concurrently depending on the size of engagement or availability.

A Lead Consultant must be capable of managing a complex project, and being a recognized expert by significant career experience in enterprise IT leadership or by proven technical/professional services ability in one or more WWT technology practices.

The Lead Consultant leads customer-facing services projects of varying size and complexity that will often include the development of project deliverables (examples include white papers, plans, strategies, designs, assessments, and business case analyses). The Lead Consultant will combine with PMO leadership to form the "Two in the Box" model, a vital part of WWTs approach to driving successful project outcomes.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • The Lead Consultant understands all client scopes and objectives. They will be the one solution / technical voice facing the client externally and the escalation point internally for WWT employees, Partners, and Contractors.
  • The Lead Consultant will partner with the PMO counterpart to resolve Risks and Issues upon identification.
  • The Lead Consultant is accountable for resolving technical Risks and Issues in their project using their background and the array of resources available within WWT.
  • The Lead Consultant holds staff, contractors, and partners responsible for ensuring that The WWT best practices and templates are followed and delivered to the customer.
  • The Lead Consultant will review deployment documents, technical assessments, and other technical outputs to ensure a correct and consistent tone is being delivered as we define by "One Voice."
  • The Lead Consultant will manage their respective project as if it were their own stand-alone business and will deliver a service that matches WWTs expectations, focusing on profitability and professionalism.

Daily Role:

  • Main contact between WWT and customer from the beginning of a sales pursuit till the end of a project, ensuring the team meets the customer's outcomes.
  • Demonstrated ability to conduct consulting activities and methodologies leading to comprehensive discovery, analysis, and technical/business recommendations.
  • Advanced communication skills, including business/technical writing and presentations.
  • Advanced ability to present in-depth technical solutions.
  • Self-motivation with the ability to motivate and energize a project team.
  • Demonstrate ability to work successfully at all customer levels, from C-level executives to end users.
  • Thoughtful leadership and innovative thinking.
  • Positive customer service attitude.
  • Drive added profitable growth within the accounts.
  • Develop relationships throughout the customer's organization to source new business.
  • Participate with Sales during the sales process through Project Scoping Workshops (PSWs), presentations, solutions, and development of SOWS.
  • Supply the bridge between Sales and Professional Services as new opportunities are closed.
  • Proven history of customer focus, including the ability to foster long-term client relationships.
  • Ability to successfully manage partner and vendor resources.
  • General understanding of financial forecasting, reporting, and budgeting.
  • Personnel management experience.
  • Expert knowledge of project management principles and practices.
  • Willingness to travel.
  • Proactively detects technical deficiencies and develops practical, workable solutions to problems.
  • Takes full responsibility for the overall execution and delivery of critical tasks or projects.
  • Creates an environment where others feel safe to be open and candid and where conflicting ideas and opinions are regularly discussed.

Collaboration & Leadership

  • Conveys the WWT vision in accurate and relevant terms that others can identify with, helping others see how things will improve.
  • Stays focused on department and WWT strategic priorities and distributes their time and resources accordingly.
  • Works with and through others to consistently break down barriers between departments.
  • Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor.
  • Proactively seek ways to expand technical knowledge.
  • Possesses professional maturity and presence.
  • Works actively on mentoring and team development with more junior team members.
  • Proficient in the aspects of project launch and closure.
  • Ability to act as a technical expert.
  • Good technical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
  • Manage large or multi-disciplinary/multi-phased projects, including planning, staffing, budgeting, and delivery.
  • Maintain current knowledge of industry trends and tools to supply best-practice insight and best-in-class recommendations to management.
  • Ensure that all components and their usage are consistent and compliant with all applicable regulatory, departmental, IT, and corporate standards, policies, and guidelines.

Management

  • Manage project risk, up/cross-selling, and oversight of team deliverables.
  • Contribute to the definition of industry best practice through subject matter expertise.
  • Support the organization as needed, including project scoping, developing SOWs, and responding to RFIs, and RFPs.
  • Deliver within the scope of the SOW while meeting or exceeding profit targets.
  • Supply proper direction and feedback to team members.
  • Ensure that the team finds, documents, and drives resolution for program issues.

Minimum

  • Proven track record of successfully managing and delivering complex IT projects on time and within budget, utilizing programmatic approaches e.g. Agile or Waterfall.
  • Demonstrated ability to design, develop, and implement scalable, reliable, and efficient technical solutions.
  • Skilled in navigating uncertain and rapidly changing environments, with a proven ability to use data to identify core issues and make informed recommendations
  • Exceptional problem-solving skills, with a knack for breaking down complex situations into manageable components, facilitating clear decision-making processes and action plans.
  • Strong communication abilities especially when faced with incomplete information or shifting priorities.
  • Understanding of aligning technical solutions with business objectives and how technology can drive efficiency, growth, and competitive advantage.
  • A Lead Consultant must have a bachelor's degree in a relevant technical, business, or management discipline from an accredited university or equivalent technical and business experience. An advanced degree is preferred.
  • Expertise in Application Dependency Mapping.
  • A thorough understanding of how applications impact IT infrastructure with an ability to backwards-engineer applications to understand their links to other services and infrastructure
  • Familiarity with infrastructure architecture including basic networking, telemetry, compute, hypervisor, operating system, load balancing, and storage.
  • Familiarity with application and systems architecture defining the components, their interactions, and the overall structure of the application including n-tier, database, web servers, etc.
  • Basic knowledge of how relational databases and NoSQL databases are used within an application architecture.
  • Some familiarity with different programming languages, frameworks, libraries, and tools.
  • Some familiarity with cloud computing and hybrid cloud architecture.
  • Minimum ten (10) years of industry experience in enterprise IT management, technology consulting, advisory, or professional services.
  • 5-7 years of experience as a Senior Consultant or equivalent experience.

Preferred:

  • Thorough understanding of at least one major WWT technology practice area, key technology partners, and market trends.
  • Post-graduate training in business-related discipline or management.
  • Demonstrated leadership, team building, and management skills.
  • Advanced client-facing skills, including analyzing complex problems and influencing and negotiating with clients.
  • Demonstrated technical consulting experience in one or more vertical sectors: government, public sector, higher education, finance, health care, technology, or other commercial.

The well-being of WWT employees is essential. So, when it comes to our benefits package, WWT has one of the best.

Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.

Client-provided location(s): London, UK
Job ID: world_wide_technology-5001029051200
Employment Type: Other