Technical Consultant – Windows, Citrix, VMware recruitment

Job ID: 18440

Position Description:
SunGard provides solutions for the insurance industry in each of the following major business lines: life and health, annuities and pensions, property and casualty, reinsurance and asset management. SunGard's software and services support functions from the front-office through the back-office, from customer service, policy administration and actuarial calculations to financial and investment accounting and reporting.
• Partnering with SunGard business team members to understand business objectives and integration requirements
• Working with client IT staff to scope and specify systems integration requirements
• Develop High-level design including the preparation of technical documentation
• Production of detailed designs in preparation for product deployments
• Deploy iWorks risk management Applications at client locations.
• Work with Project Managers to create and execute detailed project plans.
• Perform process automation and orchestration using various tools, adapters, APIs and scripting languages.
• Provide subject matter expertise and best practice guidance on Prophet Software and industry standard 3rd party products, including but not exclusively Microsoft's HPC 2008, Microsoft's Windows 2003 and 2008, IIS, SQL 2005 and SQL 2008 DBMS, SAN, NAS, NetApp, Citrix, VMWare.
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• Configure products for various business scenarios including high availability and high security situations.
• Project scope definition planning and estimating
• Identify opportunities to expand the Technical Services offering and deliver further solutions and contract further work with existing clients.
• Provide Diagnostic Services to clients. 2nd level Technical Support for Risk management Applications. All member of the technical team are expected to spend time on support calls on a rota basis.
• Provide Technical Training to clients.
Support the pre-sales process by contributing to the technical aspect of RFI and RFP's as well as presenting Prophet Technical solutions and architectures to prospective clients
• Manage all work in a co-operative team environment, using project management systems
The position requires close working with onsite Technical consultants, Pune based support staff, and the actuarial and system development teams in both Pune and Chertsey.

Position Requirements:
Essential Skills Required;

• Knowledge of network and PC operating systems (Windows 2003, 2008, Windows 7)
• IT Infrastructure and networks
• Knowledge of at least one but preferably both of CITRIX and VmWare
• Strong experience dealing with commercial software products and their deployments.

Desirable Skills Required;
• Knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server
• Knowledge of Microsoft HPC
• Knowledge of networking concepts (including firewall design and principals)
• Good written and verbal communications at all levels
• Professional
• Customer focused

Desired
A computer related degree (Computer Science, Information Systems or related field) or further industrial certification, such as:
* MCSE, MCSA
* MCDBA
* CCNA, CCIE
* Any type of SNCP