Position: Principal Technical Consultant
Location: New York City

Details:
Title: Principal Technical Consultant(PTC) - Data Migration Practice
Location: Greater NYC, Philadelphia, CT, Boston

Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services (GSS) offers market-leading storage consultants, proven methodologies and a comprehensive Professional Services portfolio to help our customers take advantage of our storage solutions.  GSS is the fastest growing organization within Hitachi Data Systems.

Job Summary:
Responsible for providing technical leadership for Data Migration services in the Americas. This responsibility spans all phases of a project’s lifecycle including defining services, training consultants, overseeing deliveries, handling escalated situations, and ensuring orderly project closure. Specifically, candidates for this position should have experience planning, architecting, implementing, educating, and integrating HDS products into customer environments.
Breakdown of role by time spent on each activity:

- Overseeing delivery of services (50%)

- Developing and improving Data Migration services tools and portfolio (25%)

- Working with other services teams on services integration projects (15%)

- Educating internal and external consultants on implementation methodologies and best practices (10%)
Qualifications

Skill sets that may be required include:
- Unix and/or System Administration experience on products such as Hitachi, HP, IBM, EMC, SUN

- Strong knowledge of RAID, Business Continuity, Fiber Channel, SCSI

- Design of complex Brocade and Cisco SAN environments

- Programming languages: Perl, Unix Shell, and/or Windows scripting

Essential Functions:
- Understanding of HDS storage array performance aspects and practical troubleshooting experience

- Understanding of HDS data migration methodologies and the ability to create plans for large-scale migrations using Tiered Storage Manager and HDS replication technologies.

- Superior problem solving skills

- Business Development - pre-sales, positioning of service offerings and interface with HDS sales organization

- Strong communication written, verbal and presentation skills

- Working independently and proactively
- Strong pro-active leadership skills necessary to manage consultants
- Superior customer interfacing skills
- Ability to coordinate & direct multiple projects & team members associated with the project

Requirements:
- 5 - 10+ years of consulting and/or project management experience.  5+ years experience with hands-on, technical experience implementing, configuring, and supporting HDS storage in a distributed computing environment, including in-depth SAN knowledge. Experience in the following:

- Open Systems Data Migrations

- Understanding of HDS enterprise and/or midrange Dynamic Provisioning

- Understanding of HDS remote replication technologies:  Universal Replicator and TrueCopy

- Storage Externalization

- Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager

- Hitachi Device Manager

- Cache Logical Partitioning

- SAN implementation and administration

- Strong interaction with sales teams and ability to create and maintain relationships

- Excellent verbal and written communications skills, presentation, customer, business and negotiation skills

- Experience with developing and creating new service offerings

- Experience with Partner development as it pertains to service delivery and certifications

- Experience in writing detailed business/functional specifications documents

- Proven ability to exercise good judgment and make sound business decisions

- Demonstrated ability to gain consensus in a diverse environment

- Use of formal project management tools (e.g., Microsoft Project, Visio, etc.)

Contact Information:
steven DOT henkel AT hds DOT com