AEM Architect Consultant - Digital Velocity

About the role

Bring your IT career and talents to CDW, where you can have a greater impact, be inspired by our mission and excited about your career and future. A Fortune 200 leader, we're the driven professionals and technology experts companies turn to most to solve their IT challenges. Position Summary The Managing Consultant plans, directs, and coordinates technical activities of designated Adobe Experience Cloud projects and associated personnel, subcontractors, and vendors to ensure that client service delivery is effectively managed on all dimensions: budget, timeline, quality, deliverables/outcomes, teaming/collaboration and updates/communication with a high degree of client satisfaction. Teams with other consulting and sales colleagues to develop a "trusted advisor" relationship with clients with the specific objective of achieving further penetration into accounts and attaining meaningful follow-on sales. The primary purpose of this role is to provide advanced Digital consulting solutions to clients. This role will focus on building software solutions using Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) and related Adobe products that meet the business needs of our clients. This role may perform activities such as architecture definition, component design, component development, systems integration, and testing. Primary Duties & Responsibilities Delivery Regularly serves in the lead consultant role on a project team to provide guidance to other team members. Serve as the technical architect with responsibility for managing client expectations for specific Adobe Experience Cloud projects, while seeking and fostering additional opportunities with clients. As part of this role, performs technical oversight of all deliverables and is responsible for ensuring the technical quality of the deliverables. Identifies all points of contact from the system perspective and establishes contact with necessary stakeholders Reviews business and technical requirements from multiple user areas to ensure compatibility, identify gaps & inconsistencies and eliminate conflicting requirements Understands the business factors and motivators driving technology decisions with clients Participates in determining business requirements, technical requirements, and solution architecture for clients Provides input to final recommendations for technology solutions to meet business requirements Prepares and completes technical design inspection of other team members Gathers feedback and input from team members and works with senior project staff to optimize client relationship and improve quality Consistently achieves outstanding Client Satisfaction results on all consulting engagements Maintains accountability to work estimates and project financials Builds client-focused relationships with clients to identify business challenges Makes recommendations to solve client problems Complies with all time compliance and time entry guidelines Meets billable utilization targets Practice Development: Supports activities that drive practice growth and profitability Pre-Sales Directly interacts with clients, sales personnel, and CDW Presales Architects to identify, qualify, and validate client requirements for technology solutions. Pursuit activities include meeting with C-Suite personnel and creating and delivering presentations to drive Digital and/or Data solutions Creates solution prototypes and POCs that illustrate business value and garner client buy-in Provides technical perspective to ensure a realistic estimation of scope, cost and level of effort for proposal generation Assists with the creation of proposals and contractually sound Statements of Work (SOWs), solution work estimates, and total solution pricing for profitable post-sales delivery integration, implementation and delivery. Provides significant and demonstrated services solution sales to meet practice goals Develops Cost/Benefit Analysis and rationale for large complex projects or programs with input from others on the account team IP Development Provides technical leadership for Adobe Experience Cloud projects, particularly relating to AEM Sites and Assets, but also including typical points of integration such as Adobe Launch, Adobe Analytics, and Adobe Target Conducts research & development work targeted to create frameworks, utilities, or best practices to enhance the efficiency and quality of client delivery efforts Catalogues existing intellectual property (IP), determining strategic areas for IP development (including input into training and education plans), and evangelizing the use of practice IP by delivery teams Contributes and develops best practices, strategies, methodologies and documentation/templates. Occasionally presents externally as a thought leader at a regional level. Staff Oversight Maintains accountability to work estimates and project financials Directly supervises project staff with responsibility for ensuring engagement success and appropriate use