Chief Technology Advisor

About the role and what you'll be doing:

The Chief Technical Advisor is a seasoned technologist focused on promoting technical innovation and transformation aligned with our client’s business drivers and corporate objectives to drive value-based outcomes. They also provide client and industry feedback to Ensono’s internal teams, which allows us to adjust our product and technology roadmaps.

Responsibilities:

• Inform client about emerging technologies pertinent to their infrastructure needs
• Interpret business opportunities, changes, and challenges within our clients’ environments and work across organizational boundaries to drive short and long-term technology roadmaps which will create value for our clients and Ensono
• Enable alignment of business objectives with IT roadmaps using analysis of the technology landscape to identify gaps, potential impact, technical debt, etc. and recommend solutions to support business objectives (cost optimization, improved operations, sustainability, etc.) • Advocate for - and drive adoption of – standard reference architectures, good technology design patterns, and solution principles that align with the client’s business objectives.
• Work closely with client IT staff and their business leaders to promote end-to-end solutions using design patterns for mainframe, open systems, and cloud, across vendors and providers such as AWS/Azure/GCP, IBM, Dell, etc.
• Collaborate with the Sales and Consulting organizations to create Pursuit, Solution, and Sales strategies for existing clients
• Conduct discovery and assessment workshops (often in collaboration with resources from consulting, operations and product teams) to help drive further penetration of the client account
• Develop and document solutions that meet client's (technical and business) requirements and allow them to adapt to changing industry needs with a focus on transformation and re-platform efforts
• Conduct solution development sessions and present technical solutions and business cases to a wide variety of audience
• Gain executive buy in for complex solutions by engaging in executive and senior-level technology discussions
• Gain clients' confidence as a trusted advisor by offering consultation and recommendations drawn from insights, technology know-how, and past experiences
• Align and partner with Product Management to help drive appropriate product enhancements and changes to technology roadmap
• Aid in driving stability and innovation within the client's current and future state and create solutions based on client requirements and available product offerings