Senior Manager

Company: Valorem Reply
Location: Saint Louis
Posted on: February 23, 2021

Job Description:

Kansas City/Seattle/St. Louis/Chicago IT Modernization - IT Modernization Full Time The Senior Manager, IT Modernization will be responsible for leading the IT Modernization team, working with Microsoft teams and--with our customers.-- Responsibilities

• Lead--Valorem Reply's--IT Modernization (cloud and infrastructure) team as a Senior Manager and mentor and a conduit through which the latest information,--trends and practices are shared in order to build up the entire--team--
• Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, career development and training plans for direct--reports--
• Maintain the applicable Microsoft Competency designations for the team by meeting the requirements including certifications--by direct--reports--
• Working directly with Microsoft product and marketing teams responsible for the R&D, marketing and operations teams to--learn from and provide field input to the Microsoft teams delivering next-gen portals and--content--
• Work with--Valorem Reply's--customers in both pre-sales as well as billable scenarios when necessary to accelerate opportunities--for intranet and extranet portal and collaboration.--
• Identify opportunities by collaborating with our sales teams to ensure growth attainment.
• Assist in writing and proofing Statements of Work (SOWs)--
• Provide leadership in the enterprise community through social media, articles, speaking engagements, seminars and--conferences--
• Demonstrated design and admin experience with on-premises and online (Azure) components of infrastructure and platform components.--
• Demonstrated design and admin experience with underlying infrastructure including Active Directory, ADFS, on-premises--compute, networking and storage concepts and--technologies--
• Demonstrated design and admin experience with various Azure services (Azure IaaS, Azure PaaS, storage, networking compute, etc.)--
• Provide consultative guidance to customers around design principals, best practices, deployment methods and adoption.--
• Pass required certification exams relevant to the role and Valorem--competencies--
• Generate high quality deliverables as negotiated in signed Statements of Work (SOW)--
• He/she will build and maintain strong relationships with multiple technical and line of business contacts within the assigned--customer engagements.
• He/she will be required to maintain strong working relationships and collaborate with other--Valorem Reply team members in Sales, Services, Marketing and Product Management--teams-- Requirements
  • Experience in Cloud Strategy, IT roadmaps and general consulting skills strongly preferred
  • Knowledge of Azure and Office 365 cloud platforms required
  • At least five years of IT experience, with at least three years managing operations
  • Proven track record of selling and leading a cloud managed services practice
  • Ability to work well in a cross-functional team required
  • Must have excellent organizational, verbal and written skills
  • Critical thinking and problem-solving skills as well as root cause analysis background required
  • At least two years of experience running a Managed Services practice, with a focus on Cloud Managed Services
  • 10+ years of relevant business experience, demonstrated expertise with Exchange and Office 365
  • Demonstrated--experience in consulting and/or project management

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