What is a senior consultant?

Answer 1

"Principal Consultant". This position is much more like a Senior Manager type of consultant. They are very in depth with the technology (hands on) and architectural solutions, manage the junior consultant, consultant and senior consultant or provide guidance to the junior until senior consultant.

After the Principal Consultant title, usually the title will be "Senior Principal Consultant". This position is much more like a Director type of consultant and Guru.

The Senior Principal Consultant must work with multiple layers of an organization, from executes, to business stakeholders, to technical teams and be successful working in all circles. They must be able to to communicate ideas to all levels and obtain buy in from both the business and technical organizations for their solution architectural designs.

This role requires the individual to be the lead architect, lead of consultant, designing implementation architectures as well as defining the development and roll out strategy. This person must also posses a deep understanding of the business domain as well as the technologies used to solve the different business problems (hands on also needed).