Data Migration _Consultant / Sr. Consultant – Nakshatra Returnship Program – Women Back to Work

Job Description

Role: Consultant / Sr. Consultant (women candidates only)
Career Break: 2+yrs
Experience : 4yrs to 8yrs (Consultant), & 8yrs to 12yrs (Sr. Consultant)
Location: Remote (Due to Covid restrictions)

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Opportunity:
The Consultant/Senior Consultant is an advanced level technology specialist and subject matter expert, providing customer guidance by facilitating technical workshops, creation of low-level designs and implementation of use cases into high-quality solutions. In addition to customer facing responsibilities, Senior Consultants also provide technical input to service offering evaluation, customer success initiative, pre-sales and drive best practices in the form of white paper creation.
We are looking for conscientious and responsible individuals who can build on our successful track record and come with us on the next stage of our journey.

Role and Responsibilities:
• Collaborate with cross-functional VMware project teams which could consist of VMware pre-sales architects, engineers, product management, consulting, and support staff.
• Work as part of a wider project team or independently act as Migration lead on Migration Center engagements
• Develop use cases into high-quality solutions in your specialist area
• Actively demonstrate commercial awareness and stay within the scope of the contracted work.
• Take ownership and accountability for individual deliverables.
• Define project requirements/issues/constraints with PMs.
• Make accurate impact assessments, and raise, implement, close down and roll-back plans when required
• Maintain current, high-level technical knowledge of the entire VMware product portfolio and future product direction and expert level knowledge of the Data Center Migration, which include Data center discovery, Planning and Execution.
• Assist in the development of our service offerings as well as Migration Center content, best practices, and white papers.
• Must enjoy working with leading edge technology and being an intrinsic part of a fantastic team.

Requirement:
• Good knowledge on any Virtualization platform preferably vSphere. Hyper V and other platforms will be considered as well
• Understanding of Cloud technologies and migrations
• A strong OS administration skill can be considered
• Candidates from consulting, Administration, or support (general VMware support) background.
• Experience in large Data Center migration projects with hands on experience on any of the planning tools.
• Should have experience in Data Center Migration Discovery Phase, Data Center Migration Planning Phase, Data Center Migration Execution.
• Experience on automated discovery tools e.g Device 42, vRNI etc.
• Excellent skills in using advanced features of Microsoft Excel (functions and formulas). Understands the data visualization.
• Experience in conducting workshops, preparing migration strategy, migration plans, runbooks, status reports.
• Good understanding of Cloud/infrastructure components and migration methodology. Good documentation skills.
• Strong stakeholder management skills – negotiation skills.

Certification and Education
• Preferably Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Recommended ITIL certification.

Desirable skills and experience
• Experience in delivering engagements under PRINCE2, PMP or TOGAF frameworks.
• Understanding of ITIL framework.
• Experience of presenting at a user group, trade show or similar is highly desirable.

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