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Liatrio · 5 months ago

Strategic Principal

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$210K/yr - $240K/yr

Liatrio is a boutique consulting firm that helps enterprises deliver software faster, safer, and more efficiently. They are seeking a Strategic Principal who will be responsible for the strategic direction of major engagements, building client relationships, and guiding a team of managers and directors. The role involves working closely with executive leaders and clients to drive DevOps transformations and ensure engagement success.

Information ServicesInformation TechnologySoftware

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Responsibilities

Set and drive strategy

Create and accountable for SOWs, working closely with the C-suite, Liatrio technical leadership, and client stakeholders to advise, drive, and evolve the enterprise technology strategy for the client, transformation strategy, and workstream phases

Responsible for execution of contractual obligations to deliverables, documentation, and providing an excellent customer experience

Guide clients on transformation, technical, and methodological best practices, provide strategic influence, share industry insight, advocate for DevOps cultural and be a transformational consultant (remove political, financial, mental, social impediments)

Accountable for an account to build, grow, and maintain Liatrio relationships with the CXO, executive, and key customer stakeholders

Collaborate with both Liatrio and customer architects and engineers to solve complex engineering challenges in the engagement

Anticipate objectives and conflicting points of view; maintain executive summaries, gather stakeholder feedback, measure outcomes, stakeholder check-ins, set SLAs

Review and approve resource forecast and actual, invoice accuracy, and timely submission

Accountable for overall morale and well-being of the Liatrio team, set SLAs, and communication tone

2nd line manager with 2-4 senior team members who each manage 4-8 ICs, coaching/mentoring with weekly 1:1s, real-time feedback, support career development, and formal feedback monthly & bi-annually

Oversight and approve prioritization to meet SOWs and SLAs

Identifies and maps capabilities of the team to client needs, advise business and PeopleOps on hiring, onboarding, and rotation to prevent burnout

Ownership of relationship with established clients, partner with the sales team’s work in providing an excellent customer experience, identifying opportunities for expansion, promoting Liatrio, and crafting SOWs

Leveraging industry insights to create accelerators that will be valuable to future engagements, support our internal efforts, and grow the community

Identifying, defining, and translating consulting vision to clients and functional initiatives

Management Consulting

Change Management

Enterprise Transformation, Digital Transformation, Cloud Migration, Application Modernization, Platform Engineering, and Engineering Enablement

You should have a strong understanding of our capabilities, tools, and technologies and be able to advise our clients on why and when to use them

Build systems, using technologies like Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab

Infrastructure as Code, like Terraform or Cloud Formation

Cloud native technologies, such as Kubernetes and Istio

Cloud providers, like Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud

Observability, through tools such as Prometheus, Elasticsearch, Grafana, DataDog or Zipkin

Modern source control management systems and branching strategies

Application Development, comfortable reviewing code and empathizing with developers across the SDLC

Qualification

DevOps transformationEnterprise transformationCloud migrationManagement consultingChange managementTechnical knowledgeClient relationship managementCoachingTeam developmentEmpathyMentoringCommunication skillsProblem-solving

Required

Extensive experience as an account principal, delivery principal, consulting director, or consulting managing director

Passionate about best practices in modern engineering

Experience in transferring knowledge, coaching, training, and upskilling

Accountable for strategic direction of a major engagement or several smaller engagements

Building and maintaining client relationships as a trusted strategic advisor

Overall engagement success

Guiding a team of 2-4 managers & directors as direct reports

Experience in strategy & delivery excellence

Ability to set and drive strategy

Responsible for execution of contractual obligations to deliverables

Guide clients on transformation, technical, and methodological best practices

Accountable for an account to build, grow, and maintain relationships with CXO, executive, and key customer stakeholders

Collaborate with both Liatrio and customer architects and engineers

Anticipate objectives and conflicting points of view

Accountable for overall morale and well-being of the Liatrio team

2nd line manager with 2-4 senior team members who each manage 4-8 ICs

Identifies and maps capabilities of the team to client needs

Ownership of relationship with established clients

Extensive experience owning, leading, and enabling multiple workstreams

Strong understanding of capabilities, tools, and technologies

Employment eligibility: must be authorized to work in the United States or Canada without the need for sponsorship

Travel: onsite with the client approximately 50%, which can include commuting, majority US travel, and occasional international travel

Preferred

Experience in Management Consulting

Experience in Change Management

Experience in Enterprise Transformation, Digital Transformation, Cloud Migration, Application Modernization, Platform Engineering, and Engineering Enablement

Experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab

Experience with Infrastructure as Code, like Terraform or Cloud Formation

Experience with Cloud native technologies, such as Kubernetes and Istio

Experience with Cloud providers, like Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud

Experience with Observability tools such as Prometheus, Elasticsearch, Grafana, DataDog or Zipkin

Experience with modern source control management systems and branching strategies

Experience in Application Development, comfortable reviewing code and empathizing with developers across the SDLC