The Role: Consultants empower customers to make more informed decisions by providing timely, relevant, and accurate answers to their business questions. To achieve this mission, Consultants work to understand business needs and technical requirements, and design and implement high value solutions in the MicroStrategy platform. Consultants are an integral part of the world's largest staff of MicroStrategy Certified Engineers and leverage knowledge and best practices across our global team for customer success. 

Senior Consultants demonstrate well-developed technical and business leadership, developing trusted customer relationships and providing technical oversight to large project teams.  They also leverage their deep experience and highly effective communication skills to provide critical and constructive guidance to customers, steering them towards a long-term vision for success. 

Your Focus:  

• Deliver billable consulting services, with some efforts being directed toward various MicroStrategy and/or supporting products and services. 
• Work within an internal sphere of influence typically bounded by project or regional activities. 
• Facilitate the team taking ideas from concept through full deployment. 
• Ensure a solid understanding of business objectives associated with projects and/or programs to which you are assigned. 
• Develop an awareness of the competitive landscape including key differentiators and competitive positioning. 
• Define a project approach to ensure customer and MicroStrategy account success, providing critical and constructive guidance to customers and steering them towards a long-term vision for success. 
• Leverage and extend MicroStrategy best practices for service delivery. 
• Apply project management methodology effectively in a wide variety of situations and adapting to new situations. 
• Provide support to the Services management team, helping to scope and estimate the engagement. 
• Communicate effectively with team members both internally and with customers and partners, including at the executive level. 
• Demonstrate a proven track record of influence towards positive outcomes, both internally and externally with customers. 
• Create technical and / or functional designs to support the customer requirement and business objective, which may include standalone applications or more complex interdependent systems. 
• Lead and / or participate in implementation activities. 
• Provide technical oversight for large project teams, including customers and partners. 
• Actively participate in internal knowledge-sharing forums. 

You will also have the opportunity to engage in development opportunities that may include: 

• Assuming the responsibilities of a selected engagement management, under guided supervision. 
• Mentor junior colleagues. 
• Deliver classroom training for internal audiences. 

Required Experience and Skills  

Motivation, Innovation, Passion, Integrity, Teamwork, Customer-Focus  

You should also bring the following:  

• Bachelors or equivalent degree in a business, technical, or related field 
• 5+ years of industry, technology, and services experience 
• Commitment to personal and professional growth 
• Experience designing and implementing MicroStrategy or other business intelligence solutions 
• Demonstrated leadership ability resulting in customer success 
• Excellent written communication and oral presentation skills 
• Ability to work effectively independently as well as in a team environment 
• Staffing to local projects wherever possible, however field consultants can expect periods and assignments of up to 75 - 80% travel 

MicroStrategy is an Equal Employment and Affirmative Action employer F/M/Disability/Vet/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, sex age, genetic information, or any other legally-protected basis.

MicroStrategy is an Equal Employment /Affirmative Action employer and provides reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in job application procedures. If you have any difficulty using our online system and you need an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us about your interest in employment at 703-848-8600.