Canada onlyJob Title: Senior IT Consultant, Client Experience
Job Location: Remote: British Columbia
Compensation
The position is a full time, salaried position. Compensation is expected to be between $90,000 - $100,000 commensurate with skills, experience, and abilities.
Company Profile
IX Solutions is your trusted IT partner, connecting people with technology tailored to meet their business needs. We help our clients effectively leverage modern technology and embrace digital transformation to achieve their critical business outcomes.
IX Solutions exists to create long-term relationships with passionate people, employees and clients, achieving exceptional business solutions. We go the extra mile to deliver a positive customer experience and deliver trusted solutions that are flexible to meet client business needs.
Position Summary
This role is intended for a dynamic individual excited about the opportunity to use technology to help drive customer success while building a successful business with a collaborative and customer-centric culture.
The Senior IT Consultant, Client Experience understands the challenges clients consistently face and collaborates with client stakeholders and other IX Solutions employees to make well-informed recommendations and resolve technical issues proactively and reactively.
This role includes acting in a mentorship and escalation capacity for less-senior consultants, and involves managed services reporting and actioning of support tickets to ensure well-rounded and well-informed recommendations are made to clients.
The position reports to the Manager, Client Experience. The position works 40 hours per week, with business hours being 8:00am to 5:00pm Pacific Time, Monday to Friday. There is a requirement for after-hours work including scheduled afterhours support rotation, time sensitive client requests, and project work. Balancing multiple priorities with deadlines is a requirement.
What You’ll Do Here
Deliver exceptional IT support and technical delivery services to a broad range of clients.
Manage and maintain technology solutions built on Microsoft Azure cloud services.
Manage and maintain Microsoft 365 office productivity and security solutions.
Manage and maintain Hyper-V and VMware virtualization solutions.
Manage and maintain server, storage, and backup solutions.
Manage and maintain network and network security solutions.
Manage and maintain Microsoft Defender, Windows, Entra, and related security solutions.
Triage issues based on criticality, escalating per our escalation procedure and Service Level Objectives.
Serve as Client Lead for multiple clients, building and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders and executives to ensure alignment with business outcomes.
Provide in-depth technical leadership and knowledge sharing to other team members.
Monitor our ticketing system, support call queue and participate in our afterhours schedule.
Review managed services reporting received from technical teams, polishing and updating as necessary before sending to clients.
Advocate for clients in resolving managed services issues, ensuring well-informed recommendations are sent to clients.
Coordination of change requests, outage requests, and scheduling of required changes as a result of managed services findings.
Provide technical teams with client-specific context in delivery of managed services.
Coordinate with the Project Delivery team when new client work is signed or for discussions on unsigned efforts, pre-sales, and unscoped projects.
Attend project kick-offs and other relevant client-facing calls.
Coordinate with the Account Executive (AE) team, engaging in pre-sales activities and meetings with AEs, and contributions to their proposals (Statements of Work/SOWs, and Service Agreements).
Coordinate with relevant teams to complete SOW/Service Agreement time estimates, task breakdowns, and procurement estimates, ensuring overall agreement excellence.
Ensure technical aspects of SOW/Service Agreements are accurately represented and align with client and business needs.
Identify and advocate for new opportunities and solutions with the client and our client Account Executives (e.g., potential projects or improvements).
Regularly meet with relevant Account Executives to discuss ongoing account activities, noteworthy incidents, and new opportunities.
Advocate for technical excellence and emphasize appropriate urgency in client solutioning.
Leverage detailed client knowledge to guide other team members in resolving non-standard issues.
Monitor platform-level dashboards and provide reporting, alerting, and escalation support when required.
Collaborate with other IX Solutions teams and consultants, escalating incidents as required and acting as client advocate and liaison.
Serve as an escalation point for other team members for high-complexity and urgent issues, both during and outside of business hours.
Participate in and lead high-impact client initiatives to drive innovation and efficiency in their technical environment.
Sustain a focus on strategic guidance in addition to regular day-to-day technical support.
Advocate for identification, assessment, and resolution of root causes of IT issues and inefficiencies.
Create and maintain accurate and effective documentation.
Qualifications/Expertise
5+ years of IT Consulting experience.
Knowledge of Entra ID and synchronization mechanisms.
Microsoft Intune experience is an asset.
Experience with deployment, management, and maintenance of Windows Server environments.
Experience with deployment, management, and maintenance of Active Directory environments.
Experience with deployment, management, and maintenance of storage and virtualization infrastructure solutions.
Experience with deployment, management, and maintenance of backup solutions encompassing files, databases, servers, and hosts.
Experience supporting both traditional and cloud infrastructure.
Experience supporting a variety of networking technologies.
Experience offering tailored recommendations and strategic guidance.
Passion for continuing education and training a must.
Ability to distill complex technical concepts into benefits that both customers and salespeople can understand.
Certifications (achieved or willing to work towards)
Microsoft 365 Certified: Endpoint Administrator Associate (MD-102) or equivalent experience
Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert (MS-102) or equivalent experience
M365 Identity and Access Administrator Associate (SC-300) or equivalent experience
Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty (AZ-140) or equivalent experience
Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104) or equivalent experience
Microsoft 365 Teams Administrator Associate (MS-700) or equivalent experience
Zscaler Troubleshooting (EDU-260) or equivalent experience
Accountabilities, Tasks and Duties
Client Relationships
Understand and interpret customer needs to provide excellent service levels.
Develop strong and lasting customer relationships with key clients.
Knowledgeable of client stakeholders and business operations, behaving as an extension of the client IT team up to and including oversight and IT management.
Pass certification exams and complete training as appropriate to demonstrate skillset to clients and foster strong vendor relationships.
Demonstrate well-rounded understanding of the impact of decisions and solutions, both technical and business related, and drive alignment with client goals.
Team
Communicate in an open, helpful manner and build relationships across the organization.
Ability to work with a range of technical staff and cross-functional teams to develop joint solutions.
Foster a collaborative work environment and culture.
Challenge the status quo.
Understand the ‘definition of done’ for the team and demonstrate this consistently.
Take personal accountability and provide end-to-end ownership of a solution or obstacle.
Provide context to new team members who have questions about process or clients.
Engage with team and demonstrate commitment to alignment with the organizational mission and corporate values.
Other duties as required, such as the timely completion of expense reports and timesheets.
Ability to travel occasionally for business purposes.
Requirements
Must be legally permitted to work in Canada
Hold a valid Driver’s License and vehicle
IX Solutions is pleased to offer remote work opportunities for our employees, however we do require employees to reside in Alberta or British Columbia, Canada.
