Principal Consultant Software and Data Western Cape

CyberPro Consulting is one of the leading providers of IT professional services in the South African market with over 500 consultants servicing our customers and a 25-year track record of delivering Advisory Managed Projects and Team Augmentation services.

We are hiring a Principal Consultant technical lead for our Western Cape region. The role calls for an energetic client facing senior individual who brings a combination of broad technical background pre-sales and advisory experience hands on technical delivery and analysis skills as well as project management capability.

If you are one of these rare-breed individuals who can operate at the intersection of technology sales and project delivery and are looking for a rewarding senior role in one of South Africas well known and fast-growing tech companies we want to hear from you.

The role calls for multiple responsibilities where you will find yourself focusing on different things at different times across a wide range of technology industries and business problems at a senior level.

The key focus areas will be:

Sales and Pre-Sales

Contribute to customer sales meetings supporting our account management team wearing a technical/advisory hat

Compile high quality RFP Responses for turnkey managed and consulting project RFPs

Customer presentations and pitches

Own and Maintain RFP Proposal etc. Templates

Meet CyberPros onsite teams regularly to understand the technical work being delivered and provide a mentoring function as needed

Project Delivery and Team Management

Serve as a roving technical thought leader and advisor between CyberPros various onsite technical teams

Provide leadership role on CyberPro Consulting managed projects including people management tech lead analyst and project management activities

Supervision of CyberPro Consulting team members servicing the client on managed projects

Responsible for driving the performance of managed CyberPro Consulting project teams

Project Governance of managed projects: Regular check-ins performance reviews and agile delivery practices

Performance reviews of CyberPro Consulting managed teams against agreed KPIs

Assist with Performance management of CyberPro Consulting managed teams

Ensuring Integration with Client Teams and client satisfaction

Interviewing and selection of candidates

Marketing

Co-work with Marketing to document CyberPros projects and produce case studies and customer testimonials

Assist with generating CyberPro Consulting technical thought Leadership content on Social Media

Represent CyberPro Consulting at conferences trade shows etc. from time to time

Tech Leadership

Research and POC work into new tech as required - Software Data Digital Cloud AI

Contribute to and drive innovation automation RPA and AI within CyberPro internally

Provide Advisory / Consulting services to customers as and when needed

Assist in vetting and recruiting suitable technical staff for CyberPro Consulting

Assist in running and present at CyberPro Consulting internal skills and tech sessions

Co-work with HR to document and drive the skills and capabilities of the team

Vendor Partnerships

Contribute to growing the CyberPro partner relationships - AWS Microsoft Salesforce Snowflake

Certify on Pre-Sales Sales and Tech certifications as required for partnerships

Work with our vendor partners in co-selling and co-branding opportunities

Location Working hours etc.

Full time position during core working hours with flexi starting time between 7 to 9 in the morning

Working location - Either our Johannesburg (Woodmead) or Cape Town (Century City) offices as well as regular presence/travel at our customers in the region including medium term deployments from time to time to customer premises as our projects require

Note: this is an office-based role and does not offer remote working except for 1 day per week (Wed) we are looking for career focused people who enjoy office culture and who are looking to build robust in-person working relationships with our in-house and customer teams

Requirements

Qualifications Experience and Knowledge Required

Demographic Requirements

Open to all races

Years of Experience

Minimum 10 years of career history

At least 5 years having been spent doing hands on Software Data or digital technical work

At least 5 years spent in a team lead or other senior role with some management/leadership responsibility

At least 2 years of client facing pre-sales and/or advisory experience

Education and Certification

BSc IT Math/Stats Engineering or other STEM degree or similar qualification

IT Industry certifications advantageous (Microsoft Certified AWS Certified Salesforce Certified Oracle Snowflake etc.)

Project Management Business Process Business Analysis and Technical Architecture methodology qualifications advantageous e.g. SAFe Agile DevOps Project lifecycle BABOK TOGAF etc.

Skills Required

Experience in client facing sales pre-sales advisory and consulting activities

Strong verbal and written communication skills

Background in hands-on Software Data or digital solution design and architecture and development (e.g. .NET or Java etc. background)

Up to speed and interested in a wide range of current trends in Cloud Adoption Machine learning AI and LLM developments software architecture and data platform / data analytics

Ideally an understanding and interest in the workings of industry verticals such as banking insurance wealth & investments or retail and willingness to continuously learn

Background in technical proposals writing business requirements functional requirements and technical architecture documentation

Strong understanding of Cloud technology specifically AWS and Microsoft Azure with ability to provide top level advisory services on cloud adoption

Experience in agile project delivery of software or data projects

Personality traits