Position: Consultant - Applications
Role: Microsoft Consulting Services India is a rapidly growing Practice that serves Enterprise customers.
MCS is looking for Development Consultants who have a mix of advanced technology and business acumen. The Developer Consultant helps customer/partner account teams identify, pursue and close strategic business development opportunities while continually driving add-on business within existing projects. To accomplish this, Developer Consultants must be effective in fostering executive level relationships. When asked, consultants help translate business or application development requirements into technology requirements for inclusion in contracts and/or statements of work.
Responsibilities: Define Vision & Scope, Create Design & Architecture
Maintain a breadth of knowledge in a market sector, of industry standard frameworks and architectures as well as demonstrable technical expertise in deploying .NET solutions and related MS technologies
Define requirement with engagement Manager.
Understand customer environment & gather business requirement.
Research Technical Aspects & Best Practices.
Map technical information to customer’s context.
Develop architectural design document based on existing sample or new requirement.
Project Plans & Execution
Identify customer required deliverables & all tasks for the project.
Create high level plan & estimate timelines & resources.
Meet with internal & partner resources to get feedback & commitment to the project plan.
Develop the detailed project plan.
Execute the project and augment the project team with your technical depth and expertise.
Mentor the customer and partner team members of the project to achieve project goals.
Monitor & adjust estimates to integrate new constraints.
Conduct project closeout meetings.
On going Advice & Knowledge Transfer to Customer
Study technical books, internet content, magazines, internal & external sources to build knowledge base & gather best practices.
Respond to customer needs by email, phone calls & one to one meetings.
Prepare documentation as needed.
Presentation & Trainings to Customers & Partners
Identify Customer needs.
Research knowledge base & collect reference materials.
Prepare customized presentations or Trainings materials.
Give presentation or training.
Gather feedback & fine tune.
Contribute to MS Internal Knowledge Management System
Capture all the field learning on a project & document the same in the format required.
Ensure all assets created on a project – Design document, Vision scope document, Architecture Document , Sample code etc is submitted to the internal knowledge management system.
Provide constructive feedback for all the assets downloaded from the internal knowledge management system.
