at CDW LLC in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States
Job Description
Description
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The Federal Field CTO (F-CTO) is a critical role supporting CDW's Digital Velocity (DV) practice.As the "Federal F-CTO", they are accountable for representing the entire Digital Velocity portfolio, working in tight collaboration with peers from Digital Infrastructure to ensure the best outcome for clients on their journey of digital transformation. The Federal F-CTO also aligns with senior Federal Sales leaders, enabling them and their respective sales teams to drive Digital Velocity success. Primary focus areas include but are not limited to Cloud Native solutions, DevOps/SRE patterns and practices, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) and software development/application modernization.
The Federal F-CTO is the Digital Velocity Generalist and has high level responsibility for the entire portfolio. Federal F-CTO's understand how technologies stitch together across the entire CDW ITS catalog of solution and services, and what the DV value proposition is. A Federal F-CTO does not need to be an expert in each area, but does need to have fundamental understanding of how technology is architected in the customer's heterogeneous environment. The Federal F-CTO helps customers achieve their desired outcomes through a set of key role priorities:
Develop strategies with CDWG Sales Segment Directors and Managers and other leaders that includes how to best engage with their segment leaders, key sellers and most strategic accounts, developing a regular cadence to both share DV offerings and perspectives as well as to be informed on evolving segment needs.
Operate as the Field CTO within the Federal segment, acting as the primary technical visionary for the entire DV portfolio, maintaining technical acumen on components of the portfolio as it evolves with the industry and customer needs.
Act in the binding role within pre-sales engagements for strategic, cross functional, full stack solutions in strategically important clients, developing a solution approach and engaging Solution Architects and senior client leadership to ensure alignment and support.
Partner with the different DV teams to evolve the common portfolio, collaborate on pipeline and cloud opportunities, and maintain a culture of trust and openness in identifying, progressing, closing, and delivering on Cloud advisory services engagements.
Key Areas of Responsibility:
Act as the technical advisor and strategist for Federal customers
Drive DV consulting growth in key markets through a combination of thought leadership and positioning DV solutions.
Guide new DV services offerings by leveraging industry analysis.
Work with corresponding Business Development Managers, build and progress an opportunity pipeline for CDWG's DV. Focus on driving and closing DV category and services revenue to achieve the overall DV revenue and gross profit targets.
Deliver advisory services in collaboration with DCT. Build customer high level designs and roadmaps for technology adoption. Demonstrate the ability to scope engagements to a high degree of accuracy with appropriate assistance and review from CDWG and partner pre-sales and post-sales resources.
Perform in an oversight role for large, complex customer engagements where appropriate.
Demonstrate good teamwork with coworkers and follow the specific directives of the CDWG management team.
Maintain knowledge (industry expert) about products, applications, technical service, market conditions, competitive activities, advertising and promotional trends through the reading of pertinent literature and consulting with marketing and technical services. The F-CTO must be as informed or better than the customer, and able to quickly understand customer requirements and move a customer to the opportunity stage.
Additional Responsibilities:
Conduct presentations online and in-person to existing and prospective clients, demonstrating an ability to "own the message, own the whiteboard, own the room"
Conduct client interviews to collect detailed information and to assist in the calculation of TCO and ROI and success criteria/metrics for collaboration opportunities. Present findings to customers
Help to create client-facing business development activities, solution adoption roadmaps, case studies, perform demand generation and support follow-ups. The Federal F-CTO will own the activities and follow-ups for strategic, critical opportunities.
Participate in client seminars, conferences and workshops as necessary
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