Principal Consultant - Engineering Practice

Principal Consultant - Engineering Practice

As a Principal consultant at Daemon you will be expected to lead in the definition, design and delivery of the engagements and clients you are assigned. You will become a trusted advisor to the client and lead some of the more client centric relationship management tasks.

Being technically strong you will be required to lead on the creation of the Statement of Work (SoW). You will lead on writing the technical part of the SoW and define the scope of the project and its definition of done.  In conjunction with the Head of Practice you will play a lead role in defining the commercials of the project and will be responsible for stakeholder management and reporting of delivery centred information and the engagement lifecycle.

A Principal at Daemon is truly part of the leadership team and as such will be expected to help grow the business as one of your day to day duties.  You will take ownership and  nurture a strong relationship with your client.  You will help build the account through organic growth by seeking new opportunities by being aware of ongoing business requirements within the client.  You will collaborate with Account and Sales Teams and other SMEs in Daemon to bring your technical knowledge to pre-sales, discovery and RFP efforts.

Reporting to the Head of Practice you will be a people manager with a number of direct reports and will act as a mentor to more junior staff to help and encourage them in their technology careers.

Our core set of client-centric solutions are designed to smash client’s problems and make tech work harder for them. They include: 

• Digital engineering

• Cloud adoption, migration and optimisation, including performance engineering

• Data, ML and AI enablement

We tie this all together with a little thing we call ‘delivery excellence’, backed up with performance engineering, DevOps, and design thinking. And lashings of Daemonite energy.

You’ll be a member of the Daemon Engineering Practice team, pushing to win work on exciting, challenging and rewarding projects with some famous brands. Working hand-in-glove with high-performing teammates, you’ll develop personally and professionally, surrounded by superhero consultants digging deep to deliver together.

We’re looking for a Principal Consultant with a strong background in technology, proficient in multiple languages, tools and technologies. You’ll be comfortable leading teams, as well as holding conversations with clients up to and including C-Level.

We need someone who gets a kick out of working in a fast-paced environment, potentially overseeing more than one project, and acting as technical oversight for those projects.

You’re an excellent spoken and written communicator, comfortable working with senior and C-level stakeholders. You lead by example: you’re pragmatic and productive but also creative. You’ve got the beans to motivate teams of all sizes and manage development plans for yourself and others, knowing which areas to focus on to keep things moving. 

You actively shape/own a domain community, whether that’s blogging, events or webinars. You have an entrepreneurial mindset that means you look for opportunities wherever you think you can dig them up, and you take pride in leaving everything you touch better than you found it. 

Our values affect everything we do – and yours will too. So we’ll need you to have integrity (of course) and be a passionate, approachable pragmatist who’s always looking for ways to shake things up.

Responsibilities

You’ll be responsible for a wide range of activities including:

• Leading people and building high-performing teams that leverage technology to deliver critical business priorities and solve complex problems for our clients

• Taking ownership of engagement and client relationships

• Helping clients create solutions to their business challenges leveraging all of our practices

• Technical and practical input into the Daemon Way — our overall engagement model

• Shaping engagements from a team, skills, requirements and commercial perspective, working closely with the resourcing function to resource those people.

• Defining work packages and planning for success

• Communicating complex technical problems in simple non-technical terms

• Leading one or more teams to deliver what the client needs

• Building and managing a network of relationships at relevant levels

• Taking an active role in identifying opportunities at existing clients, new clients, or within your own network

• Collaborating with Account Directors, the sales team and other SMEs, through pre-sales, discovery and proof of concept, to win new pieces of work

• Identifying and generate new client opportunities, moving client dialogue from a discussion of ideas to scoping work

• Managing stakeholder relationships, supporting Governance, and ensuring we deliver against expectations

• Supporting teams on challenging engagements and/or with challenging clients — our clients are demanding and we exceed expectations

• End to end engagement ownership

• People manager and Mentorship and development of less experienced consultants

• Proactive solution development for both clients and Daemon — if you see something not working, we expect you to step up

• Being visible as a leader in Daemon and in the industry

• Building technical strategies for Daemon and our clients

• Community leadership, building communities within Daemon and spearheading technical innovation

  Experience

• Deep experience in one or more technical domains and/or market verticals

• You’ll be comfortable leading teams from a technical and delivery perspective

• A strong understanding of practice principles and engagements, ways of working, best practices, leadership skills, risk management, stakeholder management 

• Experience of technical strategy and innovation with domain expertise in at least one of our key areas - Cloud, Data/AI/ML, Engineering & Delivery Excellence.

• Experience in end to end execution of commercial agreements, understanding appropriate legislation, risks & standards & taking ownership of proposals.

• Strong engineering principals that can be applied across technologies

• Writing and delivering against statement of works

• Implementing technical solutions for clients

• Demonstrating exceptional communication skills as a consultant

• Strong stakeholder management at all levels

• Implementing development projects in production

• Managing one or more team(s) of mid-level to senior engineers

• Experience of line or people management 

Tooling & Tech

You can show good knowledge and skills in but not limited to:

• Experience of one or more of the following Java/Python/Go
• A strong understanding of engineering principles and projects

• AWS, Azure, GCP (one of them or a combination)

• Agile best practice (to a high level)

• A strong understanding of development lifecycle best practice

• Containerisation

• DevOps practices

• Data Engineering

We’re all about the energy that comes from confidence, camaraderie and a shared purpose. About unearthing the full potential of every engagement, to inspire and empower our clients, and leave them stronger than when we arrived. 

So we empower you to deliver, with an open, honest culture where you can be yourself. And we give you mentoring, training, and plenty of scope for collaboration. Because we also want Daemon to be all about you.

But it’s not all work, work, work – we’re always finding excuses to get together, with regular socials, clubs and team lunches. When the time is right we throw seasonal parties, with gifts from us for everyone, and awesome extras. Like the Daemon FestDVal: we invite you, your friends and family (and dogs) to fool around with silly stuff like a drum workshop, laser tag and bouncy castles, listen to live music, and stuff yourselves with jerk chicken, veggie curry and donuts. Nice!

Training and development

We love it when Daemonites want to get certified in new or existing technologies. Not only will we pay for you to do it – there might even be a bit of a bonus in it for you. We also make sure that you get internal training on the new products you need. 

Big client experience

You’ll get the chance to work with enterprise clients on different types of engagements, so you can hone your fabulous skill set and get to grips with all the latest tech.

Plus you’ll find:

• The Daemon buddy system to support you in your first six months

• Support from a team of super-experienced consultants

• A promotion and pay rise panel that sit every six months

Find out more here..Working at Dae.mn