Description
Knowledge and Skills
Demonstrates the use of consulting skills including: questioning, listening, ideas development, permission and rapport, and influencing.
Ability to conduct/lead oral status/technical interchange meetings with customers on small to medium sized engagements.
Owns and contributes to the technical design of customer solutions. Ability to translate technical details into concise and easy to understand written form. Ability to write relevant components of a proposal document (eg answer specific RFP questions). Ability to translate verbal requirements from face to face client meetings into requirements documents, statements of work, and proposals.
Able to discuss (within own area of expertise) requirements with the customer, and to challenge and clarify when appropriate. From the requirements, able to develop a high level design or plan, and then estimate the amount of effort required to deliver. Able to advise the engagement owner about the risks associated with this work package.
Ability to work with a team to provide written responses to technical proposals and/or reports/documentation for delivery to tech lead/project manager.
Demonstrates an specialist understanding of several Active Directory and other complementary technologies, including:
Essential:
DNS
Directory Services
Group Policy
Desirables:
IP Addressing and routing
Site component topology
Forest operations and topology
Active Directory distributed file system
File replication services
Security
Client interactions
Active Directory Certificate Services/PKI
Rights Management Services
Active Directory Federated Services
ADAM/Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Functional skills in basic protocol analysis
Scripting
Kerberos
LDAP/X500
Holds Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) and/or Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) certification in Microsoft Server platform related disciplines.