Description
Bring your IT career and talents to CDW, where you can have a greater impact, be inspired by our mission and excited about your career and future. A Fortune 200 leader, we're the driven professionals and technology experts companies turn to most to solve their IT challenges.
* Job Summary
* The Managing Consulting Engineer makes innovative and ingenious contributions to new solution/product design and implementation, based on understanding of applicable technology and how it can be applied to solution design, considerations of system-wide impact and business issues for clients. Provides technical expertise in analyzing client's requirements to develop IT services offerings across multiple technology solutions that provide significant value. Supports complex engagements across multiple geographies.
* What you will do:
* Lead a project team, directing coworker and client teams in solution design and development. Provide leadership in creating business cases, financial justification and solution benefit content for customer ready deliverables and presentations.
* Proactively addresses or escalates any budget issues that are identified during the project.
* Quality Assurance for SOW requests that meet triggers for size, cross brand, and complexity. Perform peer review of deliverables from other team members for technical content to ensure accuracy.
* Maintain client relationships as a trusted Technical Advisor. Serve as focal point for communications between multiple departments and clients, when necessary, using experience and judgment to communicate effectively to all parties. Recommend solutions supporting client account teams with development of proposals, quotations, and presentations.
* What we expect of you:
* The ideal candidate should possess a Bachelor's degree in business, computer science, or a related technical field and 7 years of IT Infrastructure experience, including 3 years of experience with large enterprise cross-brand projects,
* OR
* 11 years total Information Technology experience, to include 7 years of IT Infrastructure experience, including 3 years of experience with large enterprise cross-brand projects.
* The candidate must demonstrate the ability to multitask and prioritize workload under tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment. They should have proven organizational, time-management, problem-solving, and follow-up skills. They should be able to manage and escalate technical issues to the appropriate vendor support team.
* The candidate should maintain client relationships as a trusted Technical Advisor and serve as the focal point for communications between multiple departments and clients when necessary. They should take a lead technical role in reviewing and editing deliverables produced by other Engineering and Consulting teams.
* The candidate should provide technical expertise in analyzing client's requirements to develop IT services offerings across multiple technology solutions. They should have excellent written, presentation, and verbal communication skills, including demonstrated experience presenting technology recommendations from a business perspective to internal and external clients.
* The candidate should have a history of engaging with people across levels, functions, culture, and geography, navigating interpersonal and group dynamics. They should act with diplomacy and tact and build constructive relationships with people both similar and different to themselves.
* The candidate should have a proven ability to research advanced and complex technology solutions, evaluate alternatives, make recommendations, and present materials to clients in a manner that meets clients' needs. They should demonstrate the ability to act in a calm and productive manner when confronted with change, ambiguity, and risk, dealing constructively with problems that do not have clear solutions or outcomes.
* The candidate should have demonstrated experience applying lessons learned to unique problems and a history of reskilling on new technologies with the ability to determine benefits for clients. They must be able and willing to work beyond their regularly scheduled shift, select weekends, overtime as necessary or on occasion to meet operational needs. They should have the ability and willingness to travel as needed to other CDW locations or client sites and hold a valid U.S. driver's license.
* Preferred Qualifications:
* Previous IT Consulting Experience: Demonstrated experience in IT consulting, helping organizations implement advanced and optimized technology solutions.
* Strong Written and Verbal Communication: Excellent communication skills to effectively engage with stakeholders, document technical requirements, and provide clear, actionable insights.
* Ability to Multitask: Proven ability to manage multiple projects and workstreams while prioritizing tasks based on business needs and deadlines.
* Cisco Expertise: Advanced experience with Cisco technologies, including Software-Defined Access (SDA), ACI, SD-WAN, and advanced configurations and design. Proven experience in optimizing and troubleshooting environments for high availability and performance
* Multivendor Experience: Knowledge of multivendor networking solutions, including Aruba, Juniper, and Palo Alto, enhancing the ability to deliver diverse, high-performance networking solutions across multiple platforms.
* Industry Certifications: Relevant professional certifications, such as:
* CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert)
* CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional)
* ASCP (Aruba Certified Switching Professional)
* Other comparable industry certifications.
* These qualifications will help ensure a successful candidate can contribute to designing, implementing, and supporting complex IT infrastructure solutions. Pay range: $136,400 - $175,000, depending on experience and skill set Annual bonus target of 10% subject to terms and conditions of plan Benefits overview: [https://cdw.benefit-info.com/](https://cdw.benefit-info.com/) Salary ranges may be subject to geographic differentials
Who we are:
CDW is a leading technology solutions provider to business, government, education and healthcare organizations across the globe. Our fingerprints can be found on technology in workplaces of more than 250,000 companies; from fresh-faced start-ups to international conglomerates. With the breadth of products and services we offer, there is no request too big or too small.
What you can expect from us: Culture, coworkers, careers.
CDW is not only the People Who Get IT but the People who get People. Our relationships are fueled by our deep expertise and grounded in the CDW Way. Our empowering leadership makes things happen and inspires their teams to do the same. From the teammates beside us to the leaders who guide us, we move forward together. At CDW, you'll work with people who inspire you. People with positive, success-driven attitudes who you will learn from and forge strong relationships with. Bring your best true self- and your best ideas- to CDW. Because diverse perspectives bring forth better problem solving- and better solutions for our customers on a rapidly evolving technology landscape.
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status
Benefits overview: [https://cdw.benefit-info.com/](https://cdw.benefit-info.com/)
