Senior consultant, information technology job description

• College degree or equivalent plus three to seven years relevant experience required.
• Must have or attain knowledge of Farm Bureau products, services, and strategies affecting the portfolio segment.
• Must possess excellent leadership, oral and written communication, planning, decision making, and negotiation skills.
• Must be results oriented and able to adapt and deal with ambiguous situations and manage expectations.
• Must be able to build strong relationships with the Business and IT.
• Experience in business analyst frameworks, processes and tools preferred.
• Experience with aligning project portfolio resource needs and generating consensus among multiple interrelated priority projects.
• Must have the aptitude to learn both business and technical terms and processes well enough to be a strong liaison between IT and the Business.
• Must be proficient with Microsoft Suite applications such as SharePoint, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, etc.

What We Offer You: When you're on our team, you get more than a great paycheck. You'll hear about career development and educational opportunities, an enhanced 401K with a match, low cost health, dental, and vision benefits, life and disability insurance options, and paid time off, including holidays, volunteer time, and teams who know how to have fun. Add to that an onsite wellness facility with fitness classes and programs, a daycare center, a cafeteria, and even an onsite medical clinic.

Farm Bureau….where the grass really IS greener!

Work Authorization/Sponsorship: At this time, we are not considering candidates that need any type of immigration sponsorship now or in the future, such as additional or permanent work authorization. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time, permanent basis. We are not able to sponsor now or in the future, or take over sponsorship of, an employment visa or work authorization for this role. For example, we are not considering candidates with OPT status.

applying cybersecurity best practices, and providing top-notch service to members at all levels in an organization will allow you to hit the ground running and to contribute immediately
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Our capital management clients have over $150B under management and we work with some of the Bay Area’s most prestigious independent schools.

Required Qualifications:

• Excellent communication skills (including demanding, high touch executive level clients)
• Strong experience with Office 365 and/or G Suite administration, Active Directory / Azure Directory, storage (OneDrive, Box, DropBox, Egnyte) and other cloud services
• Switches, router, firewall and other network devices experience
• Deep Windows

(server and desktop) and MacOS support and management knowledge

• History of IT Support Experience
• Ability to work independently and proactively with little supervision, while managing multiple priorities
• Strong experience with LAN and WAN technologies.
• Excellent documentation skills.
• Willingness to work at client sites in San Francisco and along the Peninsula. This is hybrid role that involves some work in the office as well as work from home.

Desirable Qualifications:

• Previous consulting experience
• Prior work with Venture Capital, Private Equity, Hedge Fund, Law Firm, or Independent Schools
• Palo Alto Networks and Panorama experience
• Virtualization experience (preferably VMware)
• Citrix experience
• Cybersecurity experience
• Certifications: Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), GIAC Security Essentials Certification (GSEC), CompTIA Network+, CompTIA Security+
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field highly preferred

Does this opportunity interest you?

If you are eager to expand your expertise by rolling up your sleeves and diving into a high-profile role, join us today to help continue providing best-in-class technology solutions and service!

About us:

Founded in 2007, and profitable since inception, our company is self-funded with no outside investors. Every member of the management team has over 20 years of experience in the industry. Our employees work hard, enjoy their work, and have a life outside of work too.

We provide best of breed technology solutions to SMB clients that have Fortune 500 technology needs. Our customers include Venture Capital, Private Equity, Hedge Funds, independent schools, and technology startups (our investment firm customers have over $150 Billion, combined, under management).

We create tailored IT solutions for companies that need well-managed, secure, highly available, disaster recovery protected systems. We augment IT departments by bringing special expertise and experience and are the IT department for clients without IT staff, who require high-touch support and superior systems management. We provide monitoring and remote management of systems, along with managed services.

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Summary of Job The Senior IT Consultant is a strategic position within the Informatics # Technology Services organization that will be expected to demonstrate expert-level industry knowledge in the assigned area. This role may be involved in coordinating any aspect of technology implementation or support for the assigned customer area(s) or operational program(s). Specific duties could include planning # design of technology solutions that fulfill customer objectives, communications of resource needs and options, coordination of installation efforts, issue management # resolution, or providing advisory services related to on-going technology-related optimizations. The Senior IT Consultant may work directly with DHS Executives, Leadership, and staff, IT department leadership, or individual IT staff and so must possess exemplary communications skills and team-supportive behaviors. Benefits We pride ourselves in retaining our top talent by offering work environments that support professional development and personal success. In addition to our robust healthcare and retirement plans, we offer: Option for Relocation Allowance or Remote work arrangement Onsite children#s care centers (Infant through Pre-K) Tuition reimbursement Free access to fitness centers, where health coaches are available to help with workout plans Career advancement opportunities Competitive pay, yearly opportunities for pay increases and bonuses Payactiv#- pay advance program Job Duties include the following, other duties may be assigned Collaborate with IT senior management, business leaders and stakeholders to understand strategic business initiatives and develop sound technical solutions that satisfy these needs. Possess expert knowledge, forward thinking and be well-versed in emerging technologies and trends. Ability to translate business need into a solid technical vision and strategy. Ensure that all components of our technical architecture are properly utilized, integrated and implemented. Promotes and implements organization security best practices into technical design of solutions. Provide mentorship and advisory services to IT and project teams to ensure solutions are in line with the architecture direction and business strategy. Collaborate to create and document standards and best practices to be utilized by other IT resources. Possess excellent interpersonal skills necessary to articulate the value of a strong enterprise architecture to critical IT and business stakeholders. Maintain a broad understanding in area of expertise of new technology tools and trends, and apply that knowledge to future architectural designs. Demonstrate expert problem solving ability and analytical skills. Provides technical and project leadership for IT initiatives. Provides expert technical guidance to IT Staff, less experience Systems Engineers and Management. Education and Experience Bachelor#s degree in CIS/IS/ Informatics or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience. Proven track record in identifying, selecting and supporting complex technologies. 5+ years of IT work experience with demonstrated expert understanding of one or more technology areas: Compute Server/Storage/Virtualization Platforms Networking and Telecommunications End User Platforms Middleware Platforms
Summary of Job

The Senior IT Consultant is a strategic position within the Informatics & Technology Services organization that will be expected to demonstrate expert-level industry knowledge in the assigned area. This role may be involved in coordinating any aspect of technology implementation or support for the assigned customer area(s) or operational program(s). Specific duties could include planning & design of technology solutions that fulfill customer objectives, communications of resource needs and options, coordination of installation efforts, issue management & resolution, or providing advisory services related to on-going technology-related optimizations. The Senior IT Consultant may work directly with DHS Executives, Leadership, and staff, IT department leadership, or individual IT staff and so must possess exemplary communications skills and team-supportive behaviors.

Benefits

We pride ourselves in retaining our top talent by offering work environments that support professional development and personal success. In addition to our robust healthcare and retirement plans, we offer:

* Option for Relocation Allowance or Remote work arrangement
* Onsite children's care centers (Infant through Pre-K)
* Tuition reimbursement
* Free access to fitness centers, where health coaches are available to help with workout plans
* Career advancement opportunities
* Competitive pay, yearly opportunities for pay increases and bonuses
* Payactiv - pay advance program

Job Duties include the following, other duties may be assigned

* Collaborate with IT senior management, business leaders and stakeholders to understand strategic business initiatives and develop sound technical solutions that satisfy these needs.
* Possess expert knowledge, forward thinking and be well-versed in emerging technologies and trends.
* Ability to translate business need into a solid technical vision and strategy.
* Ensure that all components of our technical architecture are properly utilized, integrated and implemented.
* Promotes and implements organization security best practices into technical design of solutions.
* Provide mentorship and advisory services to IT and project teams to ensure solutions are in line with the architecture direction and business strategy.
* Collaborate to create and document standards and best practices to be utilized by other IT resources.
* Possess excellent interpersonal skills necessary to articulate the value of a strong enterprise architecture to critical IT and business stakeholders.
* Maintain a broad understanding in area of expertise of new technology tools and trends, and apply that knowledge to future architectural designs.
* Demonstrate expert problem solving ability and analytical skills.
* Provides technical and project leadership for IT initiatives.
* Provides expert technical guidance to IT Staff, less experience Systems Engineers and Management.

Education and Experience

* Bachelor's degree in CIS/IS/ Informatics or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
* Proven track record in identifying, selecting and supporting complex technologies.
* 5+ years of IT work experience with demonstrated expert understanding of one or more technology areas:
* Compute Server/Storage/Virtualization Platforms
* Networking and Telecommunications
* End User Platforms
* Middleware Platforms