Sr Principal Consultant, IFS Practice Lead

**Are you a strategic, hands‑on IFS consultant looking for a role where you can architect solutions, steer decision‑making, and help build a practice’s culture? If so, read on!** **About Us** If it’s high-stakes, high-security, or highly complex—Oxalis is built for it. We’re a consulting and technology partner for the organizations that keep the world running: life sciences, shipyards, government agencies, health systems, aerospace programs, and manufacturers with missions too critical to fail. We serve the people behind the mission—those building, healing, defending, and delivering where it matters most. As a Platinum Solution Partner for Atlassian and a trusted systems integrator for IFS, we specialize in secure cloud transformation, IT service management, ERP modernization, and Operational strategy. We focus especially on organizations navigating compliance-heavy environments and complex change. **About the Role** As a Sr Principal Consultant at Oxalis, you lead the most complex IFS engagements in aerospace and defense, turning hard business and technical challenges into clear, durable solutions. You operate as the senior trusted advisor across the engagement, listening with empathy, shaping strategy, leading design, and owning delivery, and you are accountable for measurable outcomes that bring real value to the organizations behind critical missions. **Key Responsibilities** **Customer Outcomes** - Lead engagements end-to-end, from discovery and requirements through configuration, migration, deployment, adoption, and post-go-live support. - Listen carefully and surface the real problem behind the stated one; analyze processes, systems, and workflows; design tailored IFS solutions that align with customer goals. - Translate complex technical and operational concepts into clear recommendations for executive, technical, and end-user audiences. **IFS Delivery, Maritime, and Aerospace & Defense** - Lead IFS Apps 10 to IFS Cloud upgrade engagements end-to-end, including version-gap analysis, scoping and estimation, build, data migration, cutover, and hypercare. - Decide which customizations to retire, re-platform, or rebuild, reducing technical debt as part of the upgrade. - Architect solutions across the customer's IFS domains: MRO and asset management, manufacturing, supply chain, finance, and projects. - Embed ITAR, DFARS, and security and compliance requirements into the upgrade architecture, access model, and deployment approach. - Coordinate customerʼs internal teams, third-party technology and service vendors, and IFS Customer Success into a single delivery plan. **Leadership** - Own delivery performance across multiple engagements against scope, schedule, budget, quality, and margin; manage risks, dependencies, and stakeholder expectations proactively. - Lead and mentor consultants and technical specialists, guiding them through high-stakes delivery. - Lead workshops, design sessions, executive readouts, and change management activities that keep the work moving. - Advise the customer's CIO and steering committee on status, risk, and the decisions that protect outcomes. - Make the hard calls — staffing changes, scope conversations, escalations — when they protect customer outcomes and Oxalis's interests. **Pursuit and Practice Growth** - Partner with Customer Growth and Sales during pre-sales: discovery, solution shaping, estimates, and proposals; bring empathy and curiosity to uncover what truly matters to a buyer. - Carry a sales-attribution target by expanding the value Oxalis delivers to existing customers and helping win new IFS opportunities. - Represent Oxalis with credibility and confidence in customer and prospect conversations. **Internal Contributions and Personal Growth** - Improve Oxalis's IFS tools, templates, and delivery methodologies; leave the practice better than you found it. - Establish and grow the IFS capabilities as a practice area within Oxalis. - Mentor consultants, share what you learn, and c…