Job Description
Job Description: Senior Consultant
Role Summary:
As a Senior Consultant, you will take a leadership role in automation (preferable Aria Automation) and infrastructure automation, with a focus on VMware infrastructure. You will mentor junior consultants, lead code reviews, and ensure high-quality technical solutions. You will also conduct workshops with clients, create design documents, and lead design reviews to ensure alignment with client requirements. Knowledge of Terraform and Ansible/Salt is a plus.
Key Responsibilities:
- Technical Leadership: Lead automation projects and ensure solutions align with business and technical requirements.
- Code Review: Review code quality and architecture, ensuring that development follows best practices.
- Mentorship: Mentor junior consultants, helping them improve their skills and understanding of automation and VMware technologies.
- VMware Infrastructure: Design and implement automation solutions using VMware technologies such as vSphere, NSX, and vRealize.
- Workshops with Clients: Conduct technical workshops with clients to gather requirements, understand business needs, and drive solution alignment.
- Design Documents & Reviews: Create and maintain design documents, and facilitate design reviews with clients to ensure alignment with their needs and expectations.
- Stakeholder Management: Work closely with clients and teams to understand requirements and provide technical guidance.
Continuous Improvement: Stay updated on the latest trends in automation and continuously adapt to new technologies
͏
Do
- Provide adequate support in architecture planning, migration & installation for new projects in own tower (platform/dbase/ middleware/ backup)
- Lead the structural/ architectural design of a platform/ middleware/ database/ back up etc. according to various system requirements to ensure a highly scalable and extensible solution
- Conduct technology capacity planning by reviewing the current and future requirements
- Utilize and leverage the new features of all underlying technologies to ensure smooth functioning of the installed databases and applications/ platforms, as applicable
- Strategize & implement disaster recovery plans and create and implement backup and recovery plans
- Manage the day-to-day operations of the tower
- Manage day-to-day operations by troubleshooting any issues, conducting root cause analysis (RCA) and developing fixes to avoid similar issues.
- Plan for and manage upgradations, migration, maintenance, backup, installation and configuration functions for own tower
- Review the technical performance of own tower and deploy ways to improve efficiency, fine tune performance and reduce performance challenges
- Develop shift roster for the team to ensure no disruption in the tower
- Create and update SOPs, Data Responsibility Matrices, operations manuals, daily test plans, data architecture guidance etc.
- Provide weekly status reports to the client leadership team, internal stakeholders on database activities w.r.t. progress, updates, status, and next steps
- Leverage technology to develop Service Improvement Plan (SIP) through automation and other initiatives for higher efficiency and effectiveness
͏
Team Management
- Resourcing
- Forecast talent requirements as per the current and future business needs
- Hire adequate and right resources for the team
- Train direct reportees to make right recruitment and selection decisions
- Talent Management
- Ensure 100% compliance to WiproâÂÂs standards of adequate onboarding and training for team members to enhance capability & effectiveness
- Build an internal talent pool of HiPos and ensure their career progression within the organization
- Promote diversity in leadership positions
- Performance Management
- Set goals for direct reportees, conduct timely performance reviews and appraisals, and give constructive feedback to direct reports.
- Ensure that organizational programs like Performance Nxt are well understood and that the team is taking the opportunities presented by such programs to their and their levels below
- Employee Satisfaction and Engagement
- Lead and drive engagement initiatives for the team
- Track team satisfaction scores and identify initiatives to build engagement within the team
- Proactively challenge the team with larger and enriching projects/ initiatives for the organization or team
- Exercise employee recognition and appreciation
͏
Deliver
| No | Performance Parameter | Measure |
| 1 | Operations of the tower | SLA adherence Knowledge management CSAT/ Customer Experience Identification of risk issues and mitigation plans Knowledge management |
| 2 | New projects | Timely delivery Avoid unauthorised changes No formal escalations |
͏
Experience: 8-10 Years .
Reinvent your world. We are building a modern Wipro. We are an end-to-end digital transformation partner with the boldest ambitions. To realize them, we need people inspired by reinvention. Of yourself, your career, and your skills. We want to see the constant evolution of our business and our industry. It has always been in our DNA - as the world around us changes, so do we. Join a business powered by purpose and a place that empowers you to design your own reinvention.