Lead Consultant is responsible for delivering high quality Information Availability consulting services to internal/external clients, as part of an Engagement Team; may lead small projects, teams on projects or enhancement projects. The Engagement Team, led by an Engagement Manager, designs and implements client centric information availability solutions that resolve prevailing industry and client business issues. Maintain practice and project related information (time, forecasts, work products, methodologies, etc.) in appropriate repositories.

Deliver tactical and organizational support to the practice for information availability in the area’s concentration of services. Contribute to the success of the practice area through; personal billable utilization, service delivery efficiency, quality control, inter-departmental communication, and practice area knowledge development.

Project Delivery
• Perform all consulting with the highest degree of professional conduct
• Adhere to formal service methodologies for deliverables and overall project execution
• Ensure your assigned project tasks are completed on time and within budget
• Use Changepoint to input billable time, status tasks and forecasting project activities
• Assist with the development of project schedules
• Analyze client’s strategies and options, and provide meaningful recommendations and solutions
• Conduct or facilitate productive presentations, workshops, interviews, etc., at the client location
• Maintain actual realization rate on projects at 100% of baseline rate
• Coordinate with engagement management regarding project plan, delivery and team composition
• If necessary, support assigned team members in forecasting and tracking for projects
• Ensure all project materials, deliverables, etc., are maintained in the appropriate project repository
• Identity add-on business opportunities and other measures to build client relationship

Practice Development
• Contribute to expert knowledge base in information availability architecture and design
• Support development of best practices, methodologies, tools, and industry capabilities
• Recognize add-on business opportunities and inform the Engagement Manager
• Recommend practice improvement measures to Engagement and Practice Managers
• Assist with training junior consultants in any area of subject matter expertise
• Participate in professional organizations and external activities (white papers, articles, etc.)
• Provide input during marketing/product development lifecycle
• Where requested, assist Sales Support with development of customized proposals

Deploy Ability & Professional Development
• Meet billable utilization target of 75%
• Maintain accurate personal calendar and forecasts on a timely basis
• Maintain professional certifications in information availability (i.e. MCSC, CISSP, etc.)
• Coordinate with supervisor on developing and executing individual training plan
• Actively communicate potential availability
• Assume personal responsibility for acquiring training and project assignments needed to acquire and maintain suitable level of subject matter expertise
• Contribute to knowledge transfer/knowledge management processes
• Comply with practice procedures and directives while assuring that team members assigned to your projects do likewise
• Mentor junior consultants in any area of subject matter expertise

General Project Management
• Coordinate, with assigned EM, activities of all consultants on an engagement
• Where instructed, project manage the entire engagement, following established methodology
• Assist Engagement Director with the accurate statusing of projects into Changepoint
• Support assigned team members in forecasting and tracking projects
• Deliver projects on-time, on-budget and exceeding client expectations
• Provide input to performance evaluations for project team consultants

Qualifications : Educational Requirements:
• BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Certification in Information Availability (such as CISSP or SANS GIAC Level-Two) expected within first year of employment
• College Degree preferred but will consider applicants with equivalent work-related experience with a minimum educational requirement of a H.S. Diploma or GED equivalent.

Business Requirements:
• 6-10 years of professional experience
• 3 years experience in information availability, preferred
• 2 years direct consulting experience
• Minimum of 3 years Management experience.
• Prior work experience in a regulated environment (a plus)

Technology Skills:
• General technical knowledge and/or expertise in multiple areas of information systems technology (e.g. operating systems, networking software, databases, client/services computing, LAN, PC’s, etc.)
• Strong understanding of advanced computer system and/or information availability issues.
• Advanced knowledge of information availability principles and best practices, information systems concepts, incident response, and recovery
• Experience in information technology tactical planning, information availability procedures development and administration, availability architecture design and technology assessment.

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