Consulting Enterprise Strategist

Job Summary

As a Consulting Enterprise Strategist, you will be the foremost authority in Pre‑Sales – Services Engagement solutions within our organization. You will define the strategic vision for our programs and advise executive leadership. You will engage with clients at the highest level, ensuring top‑tier solutions across their operations. You will also drive thought leadership, representing the organization at key industry forums.

The primary purpose of this position is to function as a thought leader and strategist for the CDW Pre‑Sales – Services Engagement practice. The Consulting Enterprise Strategist will take a lead role in identifying, researching, and creating financial impact models in support of rolling out new products and services, as well as partner‑adjacent activities to increase reach and revenue. This role will also educate and interface with presales and delivery teams on practice offerings, leading and developing transition plans to scale new solutions as a bridge to CDW’s R&D Team, and providing guidance to corporate development teams on market trends and strengths/gaps associated with CDW’s capabilities and how/if to close them.

• Highly strategic, client‑facing technologist responsible for leading multi‑practice architectural engagements across complex customer environments. This role serves as a trusted advisor to executive stakeholders, aligning business objectives with integrated, scalable, and forward‑looking technology solutions.
• Operate across multiple domains—cloud, infrastructure, security, applications, and data—and are expected to drive innovation, architect digital transformation roadmaps, and provide high‑impact consulting at both strategic and technical levels.
• Serve as a consultative advisor to senior leadership and CxO‑level clients, aligning complex multi‑practice technology strategies to business goals for Majors and Territory.
• Lead the design of comprehensive multi‑practice solutions spanning CDW’s portfolio (infrastructure, cloud, applications, data, security, and AI) in partnership with Solution Architects.
• Create high‑level designs (HLDs) and future‑state architectures that scale across multi‑practice environments.
• Own stakeholder alignment across sales, operations, and delivery teams for multi‑practice opportunities—driving consistency in engagement, standardizing solution approaches, and ensuring coordinated execution across practices.
• Guide partner selection and ecosystem alignment for enterprise‑level multi‑practice engagements.
• Partner with sales and practice leaders to shape high‑value opportunities.
• Build client roadmaps, business cases, and proposals (SOWs, LOEs, RFPs) that demonstrate measurable ROI.
• Accelerate pipeline for multi‑practice opportunities by standardizing and effectively navigating internal structures, processes, and approvals.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering and 7+ years of experience in IT architecture and engineering, spanning at least 2 technology practice areas OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience designing multi‑practice solutions for complex customer environments.
• Strong understanding of CDW’s portfolio (Cloud, applications, data, security, modern infrastructure, Dev Ops, SaaS technologies, and AI).
• Proven ability to influence business and IT stakeholders at the executive level.
• Demonstrated success building and delivering enterprise technology roadmaps and digital transformation strategies.
• Must have background in healthcare or demonstrated experience selling into hospital IT systems.
• Certifications across multiple disciplines (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Architect Expert), a plus.
• Background in vertical‑specific architecture (e.g., healthcare, financial services, manufacturing), a plus.
• Strategic Mindset:
  Anticipates future trends and implications, translates vision into executable strategies, a plus.
• Executive Presence:
  Communicates with confidence and clarity to influence diverse executive audiences, a plus.
• Cross‑Domain Expertise:
  Applies a systems‑level view to architecting integrated technology solutions, a plus.
• Innovation & Agility:
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