Cloud Advisory Senior Consultant needed at Deloitte

Job Description

• As a Cloud Advisor Consultant, you will work with our clients on these pressing challenges and continually engage them as trusted partners and cloud thought leaders. Your key role is to help clients realize business and technical value from embarking on their cloud journey. You will engage in pre-sales discussions, building Proof of Concepts / Value, as well as in delivery. Your knowledge and experience in Cloud implementations and technology strategy will position you well to advise clients pragmatically and enable multi-year cloud projects. You will do this using Deloitte’s Global Cloud Transformation frameworks, methodologies, and tools.
• Scope and deliver Cloud Transformation projects such as Cloud Strategy, Cloud Assessments, Cloud Strategic Project Management, Cloud Operating Models, and Cloud Center of Excellence.Pre-sales support on Cloud Transformation topics.
• Support the client in setting expectations of what the cloud can provide. Developing a cloud strategy and aligning it with the overall organization’s strategy.
• Develop multi-year Cloud Transformation roadmaps.
• Coach and educate stakeholders (internal and clients) on cloud platforms, increasing their knowledge and ability to use them.
• Engage the client team to understand budget constraints and quarterly planning, which may affect the cloud platforms used in the organization.
• Support clients to understand, strategize, and architect for multi-cloud and integrate op-premise systems.
• Assist clients in defining and communicating Cloud value through a case for change or business case developments; as well as measuring the value realization of the business case throughout the cloud journey.
• Develop conceptual and logical client architectures. Provide recommendations for future architecture to clients.
• Run Cloud POCs to demonstrate new technologies/approaches to clients.
• Conduct market research to ensure awareness of Technology and cloud trends as well as benchmarks and package them for client consideration.
• Lead engagements or stream of work end-to-end across all delivery components.
• Lead the creation of thought leadership and assets that present action-oriented insights, knowledge, guidance, and recommendations related to the cloud journey
• Interaction with senior management at a client and/or Deloitte to steer recommendations and obtain buy-in on matters that may require an alternate approach

Key Skills:

• Communication: written and verbal using presentation technologies
• Experience in proposal writing and articulating a value proposition
• Cloud experience (migration or modernization or analytics, etc.) on at least one hyper scaler with associate-level certifications
• Technology Strategy or Enterprise Service Management or Cloud Advisory (Strategy, Operating Model, etc.) experience
• Deep analytical skills with a focus on business and technology value architecting and realization
• Ability to act independently to determine methods and procedures for assignments
• Management of team efforts at a client or within Deloitte within budget and time constraints
• Ability to operate cross-industry, with preferred experience in Financial Services, Telecommunication, Mining, and/or Consumer

Quaifications

• Minimum 5 years of work experience in technology; at least 2 years in cloud work
• Proven and relevant past consulting experience; alternatively global technology services firm, cloud firm, or seasoned industry position focused on cloud transformation (and demonstration of intrinsic consulting skills)
• Cloud certifications: FinOps, Azure, AWS, GCP, and any other relevant cloud certifications
• Other certificates: TOGAF, ITIL