Digital Process Automation Solutions Director

We currently have a career opportunity for a Digital Process Automation Solutions Director with open-source BPM platforms (Camunda or Flowable) and AWS Cloud experience to join our national Automation Consulting team. While our headquarters is located in St. Louis, MO, this position is remote with some client travel as needed, and can be based anywhere within the United States.

The Intelligent Automation Solutions Director is a key leadership position in the business unit with the skills and experience to lead strategic engagements resulting in business outcomes using open-source platform solutions. This individual will have overall responsibility for the strategic leadership of client engagements from a delivery perspective. Additionally, work closely with the Business Developers, and be responsible for ongoing client development and relationship management activities.

Perficient is always looking for the best and brightest talent and we need you! We’re a quickly-growing, global digital consulting leader, and we’re transforming the world’s largest enterprises and biggest brands. You’ll work with the latest technologies, expand your skills, and become a part of our global community of talented, diverse, and knowledgeable colleagues.

Specifics of this position may include:

• Growth Mindset / Sales Partnership: Drive company growth through collaboration with the sales team and practice SMEs. Engage in all aspects of sales including opportunity identification, solution ideation, as well as quality proposal creation and presentation. 
• Client Engagement: Foster strategic relationships with key client stakeholders to understand needs and identify further opportunities for client growth and to drive value within their organizations. 
• Delivery Excellence: Oversee delivery of strategic programs and projects. Results measured in project profitability, account expansion, and customer satisfaction. Mentor and guide delivery teams to achieve successful outcomes. 
• Vision: Provide strategic thought leadership to develop and execute plans that expand innovative offerings and enhance value to our clients. Stay abreast of industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies. Share insights with internal teams and contribute to thought leadership content. 
• Team Leadership: Develop and mentor team of consultants, project managers and architects. Challenge, champion and celebrate our People. Foster a collaborative and innovative work environment. Manage the technical, business, and personnel aspects of consulting engagements. Cultivate highly functioning teams comprised of Perficient and client resources, the ability to effectively manage the engagement while recognizing and leveraging the expertise of the different resources and the importance of their contributions is critical. 
• Support multiple engagements on a part-time basis as the overall engagement manager working with the assigned project managers to ensure successful delivery.
• Lead strategic engagements while also serving as the lead consultant/strategist.
• Cultivate highly functioning teams comprised of Perficient and client resources; the ability to effectively manage the engagement while recognizing and leveraging the expertise of the different resources and the importance of their contributions is critical.
• Oversight on Project Managers generating invoices, revenue forecasting and resource management activities for the assigned consulting engagements.
• Monitor engagement team performance and provide feedback.
• Develop overall estimates of the effort / resource requirements / schedule.
• Analysis of pricing / approach options advising the Business Unit Managing Director on the related business considerations and impact of different options.
• Lead the risk assessment efforts during the proposal process and recommend appropriate risk mitigation strategies.
• Serving as the senior delivery resource for consulting engagements; cultivating highly functioning teams comprised of Perficient and client resources.

• More than 10 years of overall experience with 6 plus years with Intelligent Automation *** Required.
• Implementation experience with open-source BPM platforms such as Camunda or Flowable *** Required. 
• Experience with leading technical discussions with business and technical decision makers, including detailed technical specifications, product roadmaps, deployment, and third-party integrations *** Required.
• Develop detailed architecture diagrams, technical specifications, and implementation plans  *** Required.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate or Professional certification *** Nice to Have. 
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in designing and im