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Executive Technology Strategistat CDW Careers
The CDW Executive Technology Strategist “ETS” provides thought leadership in IT transformation while aligning IT strategies with core business initiatives and processes to better leverage resources and infrastructure in achieving quantifiably tangible results.
The Executive Technology Strategist provides consultative leadership across the full range of technical aptitudes. The ETS candidate must demonstrate the ability to assess a client’s business drivers for a given initiative and translate them into qualifiable, quantifiable and tactical solutions. This person is able to identify and qualify business development across the organization while evangelizing sales and building a pipeline of both short-term and longer-term opportunities.
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Act as a consultative strategist to the CIO, CTO, VP of Infrastructure and other key leadership.
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Provide consultative support of related opportunities across all geographies.
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Be a key technical advisor consulting on leading edge technologies and possess deep technical knowledge in the following pillars of technology:
- Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- M&A technical competency
- Containers
- A&O
- SDDC
- DevOps
- DR/HA/Run book/BIA/BCP technologies
- ServiceNow
- APM
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Deliver presentations to clients, potential clients, colleagues, and management.
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Reports on the client needs, problems, interests, current market states, competitive activities, and potential for new products/services.
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Provides knowledgeable insight on competitive offerings, products, applications, services, market conditions, competitive activities, advertising, and promotional trends through the reading of pertinent literature and consulting with marketing and technical services.
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Demonstrate strategic time management and multitasking skills.
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Effectively accelerates opportunity pipeline with predictable business results that exceed revenue targets.
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Build and deliver highly technical documentation outlining: opportunity, discovered data, and recommendations.
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Is able to identify and focus on priorities while appropriately setting expectations with client, colleagues and management.
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Ability to provide thought leadership based on customer requirements and restrictions.
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Excellent communication skills through creative writing, technical writing and oral interactions.
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Strong client service and interpersonal skills.
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Provide a high degree of collaboration with sales personnel. Involve appropriate resources to ensure the successful outcome of engagements and subsequent projects.
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Develop intellectual property (e.g., whitepapers, deliverable templates, solutions, case studies, etc.).
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Provide feedback to management groups regarding trends and opportunities.
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Participate in project definition, scope, objectives, risks and approach.
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Work closely with CDW engineers to formalize solutions that were discovered in ETS lead workshops.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business or computer/technical related field or equivalent experience.
- Deep technical knowledge in the following pillars of technology:
- Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- M&A technical competency
- Containers
- A&O
- SDDC
- DevOps
- DR/HA/Run book/BIA/BCP technologies
- ServiceNow
- APM
- Ten or more years’ experience in assessing business drivers and translating them into qualifiable, quantifiable and tactical solutions.
- Five or more years’ experience establishing strategic direction.
- This position may require the ability to travel on average of 50%.
- Security Clearance: TS/SCI security clearance required.
- High degree of organization and attention to detail.
- Ability to work weekends and/or off hours as necessary to meet job requirements.
- Exceptional technical and non-technical communications skills.
- Broad knowledge of IT infrastructure, applications, operating systems, high availability and IT communications.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate, lead, build teams, work independently, and recommend business strategies.
- Exceptional meeting facilitation skills.
- Excellent creative writing, technical writing, and documentation skills.
- Strong business skills.
- Exceptional leadership and team skills.
- Ability to work in fast-paced, high-pressure environments.
- Demonstrates skills in collaboration with virtual teams, cross-functional groups and is able to solve complex problems.
- Experience providing project oversight, management, technical leadership or engineer mentoring.
Salary range: $137,000 - $180,000 depending on experience and skill set
Annual bonus target of $35,000 subject to terms and conditions of plan
Benefits overview: https://cdw.benefit-info.com/
Salary ranges may be subject to geographic differentials
