Cloud Consultant/Advisor

Cloud Consultant/Advisor

Principal Duties And Responsibilities :

- Working closely with our clients, Consulting professionals design, build and implement strategies that can help enhance business performance.

- They develop specialized expertise- strategic, industry, functional, technical- in a diverse project environment that offers multiple opportunities for career growth.

- The opportunities to make a difference within exciting client initiatives are limitless in this ever-changing business landscape.

Here are just a few of your day-to-day responsibilities :

- Identifying, assessing and solving complex business problems for area of responsibility, where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.

- Identifying a client's high-level business needs and leading the creation of detailed functional specs and other documentation, such as requirement traceability matrices, work-flow diagrams and use-cases

- Designing new business processes based on customer requirements and conduct user review sessions and run stakeholder agreement meetings applying thought leadership in leading the transformation

- Driving enterprise business, application and integration architecture

- Helping solve key business problems and challenges by enabling an architecture transformation, painting a picture of, and charting a journey from the current state to a - to-be- enterprise environment

- Implementing programs/interventions that prepare the organization for implementation of new business processes

- Developing our offerings and assets

Qualifications :

- Bachelor Degree

- MBA Degree from Tier-1 College (Preferable)

- Minimum of 4-7 years large scale consulting experience and managing teams in a consulting environment or at high tech companies

Experience :

- Cloud Assessment : Cloud readiness maturity assessment

- Planning and assessment of cloud solutions/platforms

- Application assessment and migration planning

- Cloud operating model design, Business case development

- TCO and vendor evaluation

- Cloud Architecture : Develop hybrid cloud reference architecture, Define target state cloud architecture, Experience with private and public cloud architectures, pros/cons, and migration considerations, Microservices architecture and Hybrid cloud integration architecture

- Cloud Deployment : Hybrid Cloud architecture design, integration and security, Experience in -

- Cloud platforms - AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Foundry, Open Shift, Docker, etc., experience in Virtualization Platforms (e.g. VMWare, Hyper-V, etc.).

- Cloud Computing and Storage (AWS, Azure)

- Deployment architecture of SaaS / PaaS (Salesforce, SAP, MS, Oracle)

- Devops and Agile methodologies, processes and tools

- Workload Migration Automation Tools (Double-Take, Racemi, etc.)

- Cloud Management Platforms (vrealize, Gravitant, etc.)

- Infrastructure provisioning and management (Puppet, Chef, Ansible)

- Experience in working with large US and UK&I clients (Preferred)

- Cloud architect certified (Azure, AWS etc.)

Key Competencies and Skills :

- Strong desire to work in technology-driven business transformation

- Strong knowledge of technology trends across IT and digital and how they can be applied to companies to address real world problems and opportunities.

- Exceptional interpersonal and presentation skills - ability to convey technology and business value propositions to senior stakeholders

- Team oriented and collaborative working style, both with clients and those within the organization.

- Capacity to develop high impact thought leadership that articulates a forward thinking view of the market.

- Ability to develop and maintain strong internal and client relationships

- Proven track record in working creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment

- Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment with effective consulting skills

- Proven track record to quickly understand the key value drivers of a business, how they impact the scope and approach of the engagement

- Flexibility to accommodate client travel requirements