Principal Consultant, Application Development

Consulting

Seattle

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At AIM Consulting, we are a focused, energetic group of people working together with passion, enthusiasm, and commitment to being an industry leader in technology consulting services.

We lead by developing and maintaining long-term relationships with our consultants and clients. We invest in our employees, fostering career growth by enabling access to training, encouraging personal development, and by providing mentorship.

All our employees are encouraged to be creative and are driven to succeed. We value honest communication, reward performance, and produce high quality results and happy clients. Our days are competitive, fast, fun, and exciting.

In addition to an annual salary, all of our full-time positions at AIM Consulting include the following: Lucrative Bonus Potential with YoY growth, Medical, Dental and Vision insurance (spousal and dependent coverage), 401k with company matching, paid certifications, disability insurance, commuter benefits, paid time off and sick days, paid maternity and paternity leave, and wellness programs.

We make a difference to our clients. We partner with them to help them define their direction, to achieve their goals, and to deliver value. We believe in building long lasting relationships, built on trust, by working hard, and exceeding our commitments. we do what we say we will do, work hard to build trust, and show respect in our colleague and client partnerships. Our community is passionate about technology, hungry for knowledge, and centered around teams. We believe in creating value for our clients by partnering with them to achieve their strategic objectives with teams that best fit their needs.

About the role

Our Application Development team consists of experienced technologists who approach software engineering pragmatically. We build trust by doing the right thing and providing superb customer service. We create high-quality, cloud-first custom applications, we help clients modernize their existing systems, and we mature our clients’ quality engineering processes/tools and development methodologies.

Principal Consultants are technology leaders who have a point of view about how to build software, how to manage software teams, and about how to deliver value quickly, and iteratively. They are responsible for building a practice and expanding consulting services in Application Development, for growing our teams, and for improving our internal processes. They ensure the successful delivery of solutions through engagement management responsibilities; they play a pivotal role in sales efforts by working with clients, estimating projects, presenting our approach, and driving contract negotiation; they build a followership as thought leaders by creating technical content and marketing content; and they grow our teams by hiring, maturing our processes, by mentoring teammates, and by providing career advocacy.

Principal Consultants are responsible for building a practice and expanding our consulting services in Application Development space by driving various critical aspects of our business: ensuring the successful solution delivery through engagement management responsibilities, sales efforts by attending client meetings, estimating projects, presenting our approach, and driving contract negotiation, creating technical and marketing content via thought leadership efforts, assisting with organizational growth by establishing/maturing internal processes, etc. Principal consultants also play a role in our AIM community through career advocacy, hiring and by helping us grow our teams and community.

Roles and Responsibilities

Sales related activities such as attending client meetings, creating project proposals, estimating project deliverables, creating marketing materials, and writing contracts
Hire and grow leaders both for project work and for the purposes of growing our FTE team; , and you assist our employees will helpby helping them successfully deliver on our commitments, achieve career objectives, and find new ways to support the business
Drive development of high-performance, well-architected, cloud-first software solutions
You will have an opportunity to oOrganize and lead discussions and events; Principals you will create workshops, develop seed projects, and collaborate on process improvements
You will sShare pyour perspectives on implementing modern solutions and processes and will periodically share technology insights by writing thought leadership content (e.g., blog posts, case studies)

Requirements

12+ years of custom software development / application architecture / enterprise architecture, and/or systems integration
5+ years of experience in solution consulting or a similar customer facing role
3+ years of experience developing and architecting on cloud systems (AWS or Azure)
Experienced in one or more of the following languages: C#, Java, JavaScript, Python
Knowledgeable about modern software architectures (e.g., microservices, serverless)
You have proven success delivering using multiple agile methods (e.g., Scrum, Kanban)
You have prior team leadership, management, or consulting leadership experience
You have highly effective communication skills with client-facing and executive level management

Salary Compensation

Salary range for this position will be $170-$190k

What it is like to work for AIM

We are a focused, energetic group of people working together with passion, enthusiasm, and commitment to being an industry leader in technology consulting services. We lead by developing and maintaining long-term relationships with our consultants and clients. We invest in our employees, fostering career growth by enabling access to training, encouraging personal development, and by providing mentorship.

We are a diverse group of individuals. No two people, ideologies, or thoughts are the same. Our different experiences and perspectives are our strengths.

We are passionate about seeing each other succeed and live & breathe our company values; we choose positivity, we take ownership, we are relationship driven, we build trust, and we are self-aware. We work hard to come through for our clients, and also for one another.

We are many unique people, with the same common goal in mind – to connect, inspire and empower our customers by leveraging an amazing workforce to help solve business challenges, drive innovation, and produce results that exceed expectations. Simply put, we are more than a company; we are our client’s trusted advisors.

AIM Consulting is an Equal Opportunity Employer. AIM Consulting provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. AIM Consulting complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities, upon request.