Data, Cloud, and DevOps Senior Consultant

Application Deadline: 18 October 2024

Department: Capability Leadership

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Chicago

Description

About This Position

Kenway Consulting is currently looking for a versatile Senior Consultant who can seamlessly move between data engineering, cloud engineering, and DevOps roles. The ideal candidate will focus on designing, implementing, and constructing solutions that solve our clients' critical technology and business problems across these domains.

The Senior Consultant should have a passion for helping clients drive strategic decisions with data, cloud technologies, and efficient DevOps practices. They should enjoy working autonomously while also collaborating with team members and be comfortable with clients of varying sizes and industries.

Core Traits We Are Seeking

Entrepreneurship: Passion to fuel growth by helping clients, peers, the organization, and yourself with a continuous hunger to learn.
Tenacity: Ability to drive through ambiguity.
Executive Presence: Clear, concise, and articulate when using written and verbal channels.
Communication: Adept at communicating quickly and effectively whether the message is good or bad.
Aptitude: Quick learner who can adapt to new technologies and methodologies
Integrity: Comfortable doing what is right for the project even when doing so may not be the most favorable path forward.
Growth Mindset: Proactively develop core skills independently and with the help of others.
Practical Experience: Ability to apply real-world experience, including internships, to client projects.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

Assist with the architecture, development, and implementation of scalable, performant, and cost-effective data and cloud platforms in support of client business processes
Communicate with stakeholders to ensure data quality, cloud efficiency, and operational excellence
Lead team of other consultants to evaluate requirements, define a vision, generate designs and ultimately problems through engineering
Work independently and lead teams to evaluate requirements and solve complex technical problems
Lead the design and implement data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps workflows
Stay current with the latest technologies and trends in data, cloud, and DevOps to support practice development and inform Go-To-Market Strategy
Assist with proposal generation and business development pursuits

Basic Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

Qualification(s) in computer science, information technology, or equivalent practical experience
2-5 years of working experience in data engineering, cloud engineering, and DevOps, including:
Strong knowledge of data processing approaches (batch, real-time, event-driven)
Experience building and deploying scalable systems with particular emphasis on:
Reusable patterns
Logging and alerting strategies.
Enterprise level DevOps and deployment approaches
Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud)
Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools (CI/CD, Git, Agile)
Programming experience in languages such as Python, Java, or Go
Strong Knowledge of Data Platforms (Azure Synapse, Databricks, Snowflake, etc.)
Strong understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases
Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
Familiarity with software delivery concepts and best practices (CI/CD, Git, Agile, DevOps, etc.)
Familiarity in business analysis, requirements gathering and management, and data discovery and profiling to drive further solutioning and refinement.
Experience leading teams, projects, and initiatives across data, cloud, and DevOps domains, including a strong understanding of tooling used to support project delivery such as JIRA, Azure DevOps Boards etc.
Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and complete tasks independently

What our Company looks like

What Our Company Looks Like
Kenway Consulting is a management and technology consulting firm whose entire reason for existence is to help companies and their employees. Founded in 2004 on the principles of being good and being truthful, Kenway’s set of Guiding Principles steer each employee’s decision-making process and center on integrity, quality, value, and respect. The company focuses on the means and not the outcomes, always in line with these Guiding Principles, and always with integrity as its cornerstone. Kenway strives to provide all clients with unmatched quality and service, and specializes in the areas of Technology Solution Delivery, Enterprise Program Leadership, and Information Insight.

You will have the opportunity to make an immediate impact with our world-class clients. Our projects tend to focus primarily on enterprise solutions, straddling our clients’ technology and business organizations. Most of these engagements require a diverse combination of skills and experience.

At Kenway, we address our clients' needs by identifying the services and solutions that are required to solve their business challenges. We then provide the appropriate mix of resources to build the optimal project team for each engagement. This approach not only allows us to take on projects ranging in size and complexity, but it also allows us to adjust capacity and skill sets as the project evolves, or as clients need change. Ultimately, our goal is to provide the highest possible quality for the lowest possible cost.

What We Offer Our Consultants:

The ability to chart your individual career path based on your expertise and passions
An environment that encourages you to identify new opportunities and the support to make it happen
An emphasis on quality of life that is highly accommodating and unparalleled in the industry
The opportunity to build and be part of a fun and collaborative organization with teams that are passionate about their clients
Culture-driven employees who work together to identify clients, technologies, and people in support of Kenway’s ambitious growth targets
Leadership opportunities early and often in your career, no matter your tenure
Participation in internal operations, giving you a chance to help in your area of interest – such as Marketing, Human Resources, Sales or Technology – and make a real impact
Exceptional benefits and an above-market compensation package, including unlimited PTO, quarterly and annual bonuses, and a SEP-IRA to which we contribute 25% of every employee’s total compensation

Our clients have increasingly returned to their physical locations post COVID. The expectation is that Kenway Consultants will need to live/work in the Chicagoland area.

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