Senior Consultant - Cloud Technology/Strategy & Architecture - Consulting Firm

Cloud Senior Consultant - Technology, Strategy and Architecture[TS&A]

Would you like to make a difference by working for a great company/team? If you love simplicity and share a passion to challenge the conventional, here is your chance to make a career of it. We are looking for an experienced Senior Consultant to join the Technology, Strategy and Architecture with out Customer.

We offer a fast paced, high-energy, innovative, global and team-oriented culture, with a flexible and exciting work environment, as well as plenty of opportunities for you to grow as a professional and as an individual. As a NetSuite resource and team member of our rapidly growing international team, you will have significant impact on our company's growth and success and you will be working with leading edge technology.

General Expectations:

- Excellent analytical skills and communication skills (written, verbal and presentation)

- Ability to chart one's own career and build networks within the organization.

- Be able to work both independently and as part of a team with professionals at all levels.

- Be able to prioritize tasks, work on multiple assignments, and raise concerns/questions where appropriate.

- Interact with clients on a regular basis through face to face interactions/ video conferences / teleconferences / mails to understand client's processes and business problems.

- Suggest practical solutions and partner with client to implement solutions.

- Manage projects or project modules independently.

- Perform account coordination with clients to build / improve relationship, seek feedback to identify areas of improvement. Seek information / ideas and establish relationship with clients to assess any future opportunities for additional business.

- Identify industry best practices and implement them in engagements.

- Define project standards, methodologies, and execute process improvement initiatives.

- Experience in one of the TS&A capability areas (Preferred).

Industry Knowledge Expectations:

- Working knowledge of industry trends, challenges, technology adoption levels and solution landscape in a specific industry

- One life cycle project execution experience in recommending and/or implementing IT strategy and solutions for improving business outcomes

- Ability to articulate key IT investment areas for creating competitive advantage for firms in a specific industry

- Awareness of industry specific economic models, business risks and markets served to synthesize how businesses in the sector succeed

TS&A has three broad sub-categories and additional expectations for each of these categories are:

IT Strategy-
 
IT strategy focuses on the critical skills to ensure that IT architecture, plan, spending, and operating model are aligned with the specific Industry's competitive landscape and the current posture of the client

- Ability to articulate leading business issues and trends, including the associated technology implications within one or more industries

- Demonstrate application of business acumen while leveraging information technology

- Candidates are also required to have at least one full lifecycle project experience in one or more of the following areas:

- IT Strategy & Alignment - Delivering IT Strategies driven both from a top down analysis starting with an articulated business strategy and a bottom up technology capability analysis.

- IT Effectiveness - Assisting clients in formalizing the tools and processes needed to understand how IT resources and programs create shareholder (business) value, and how to improve IT resource allocation to maximize value.

- Experience participating in all aspects of large-scale Enterprise Architecture projects including ideation, identification, planning and cost estimation

- Knowledge of Major Enterprise Architecture Frameworks. Framework Examples include TOGAF, FEA(F), and DoDAF.

- Experience in using excel as a modeling tool.

- Architecture and solution design experience, preparing and facilitating technology/ architecture brainstorming sessions.

- Knowledge and application of key architecture governance models, underlying tools, and supporting processes (e.g. architecture approval, architecture change control, architecture's role in project and standards oversight).

- Experience in defining and tracking metric scorecards

- Understand the impact of cloud computing in business and technology decisions, ability to identify and articulate the business and technology drivers of cloud computing across industries.

- Demonstrate expertise on current industry trends of cloud computing and service providers, hosting solutions, key architecture components, data security.

- Standard Industry certifications will be a plus (e.g.PMP, ITIL,TOGAF, eTOM,ITSM)

IT Business Management - 

IT Services and Operations focuses on the review, assessment, control and optimization of IT operations with a solid understanding of full spectrum of operations. The focus is on identifying areas where IT can increase its value to the business by developing comprehensive, integrated IT service and operations solutions.

- Candidates are required to have knowledge and experience involving:

- Any of the Process Frameworks: IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), ISO 20000, COBiT.

- ITIL Lifecycle experience across any phase: Service Strategy, Service Design, Service Transition, Service Operation, Continual Service Improvement.

- Any of the IT Service Management Tools: Remedy, HP OpenView, Peregrine Service Center, Micromuse, BMC Patrol, Tivoli, CA Unicenter, ServiceNow.

- Any IT Operations area: Service Catalog Management, Service Level Management, Security Management, Operational Metrics, Operational Governance.

- Technology Management Optimization

IT Mergers & Acquisitions - 

IT Mergers & Acquisitions focuses on IT Due diligence, Transition Services Agreements and Contract Management. It also provides services like Technology & Operations integration in a Post-Merger Integration Scenario

- The candidate should demonstrate application of business acumen while leveraging information technology and have the following skill set

- Experience in projects involving design, development and testing of enterprise systems such as ERP, SAP etc. (build, run, operations, and security) that include integration of key software components such as web/application servers, middleware, RDBMS, development environments, operational components, and security products.

- Vendor management skills

- Experience in costs modeling for restructuring/divestment/merger scenarios

- At least one full cycle of IT due diligence involving IT assets, operations, human capital and business continuity planning.

- Understand the impact of cloud computing in business and technology decisions, ability to identify and articulate the business and technology drivers of cloud computing across industries.

- Project experience in working with:

- Servers: Infrastructure, Platform Sizing, Consolidation, Tiered and Virtualized Storage, Automated Provisioning, Rationalization, Infrastructure Cost Reduction, Thin Provisioning.

- Storage: Storage Capacity Planning, Storage Area Network (SAN) Planning, Network Attached Storage (NAS), Partitioning, Rationalization, Architecture, Design, Data Migration, Synchronization Technologies, File Systems.

- Virtualization: Virtualization Server, Storage, Desktop, Network; Reducing Sprawl,

- Data Center: Optimization, Redesign, Consolidation, Co-location.

- Experience in ServiceNow will be a plus.

 Job Location - MUM/BLR

- Work Timings- Regular Office Shifts

The team - 

- We are part of one of the world's leading consulting firms for Advisory Services. We combine experience, scale, and capabilities to help clients address their most complex business problems.

- The Technology Strategy & Architecture (TS&A) practice advises clients in areas ranging from strategy development to the implementation of defined tactical responses to help realize business value and service excellence from their IT investments.

- Our advisory services and solutions enable clients to maximize both the value derived from their IT capital investments (e.g., IT strategy and portfolio management, innovation, architecture and infrastructure) and the efficiency and effectiveness of IT operations (e.g., IT organization design, IT process and service delivery optimization and IT cost reduction).

- Globally, we are organized by industries, including- Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (TMT), Financial Services and Insurance (FSI), Health Care & Life Sciences (HCLS), Consumer & Industrial Products (C&IP), Energy and Resources (E&R), Federal and Public Sector. Services we offer to our clients include advisory in Business Technology Strategy, IT Operations, Enterprise Architecture and IT infrastructure advisory.

- Our path-breaking globally integrated consulting delivery model was launched in June 2011. We work with global clients to deliver consulting services. Our practitioners are drawn from top-tier business schools and engineering schools, besides lateral hires with deep experience in the industry. They bring significant experience in industry, consulting, IT strategy and effectiveness and corporate strategy and are required to travel globally on client engagements.

- Come be a part of a start-up like experience which is punctuated with a steep learning curve, friendship and never say die attitude within the largest professional services organization in the world.

Qualifications Required:

- Service line \ Service Area Technology Consulting \ Technology Strategy and Architecture

Job level - Senior Consultant

Professional qualification - Technology graduation (Engg./MCA) + MBA

How you'll grow - 

Our Customer has invested a great deal to create a rich environment in which our professionals can grow. We want all our people to develop in their own way, playing to their own strengths as they hone their leadership skills. And, as a part of our efforts, we provide our professionals with a variety of learning and networking opportunities- including exposure to leaders, sponsors, coaches, and challenging assignments- to help accelerate their careers along the way. No two people learn in exactly the same way. So, we provide a range of resources including live classrooms, team-based learning, and eLearning. The Leadership Center in India, our state-of-the-art, world-class learning Center in the Hyderabad offices.

Benefits - 

Our Customer know that great people make a great organization. We value our people and offer employees a broad range of benefits.

Our Customer's culture - 

Our positive and supportive culture encourages our people to do their best every day. We celebrate individuals by recognizing their uniqueness and offering them the flexibility to make daily choices that can help them to be healthy, centered, confident, and aware. We offer comprehensive well-being programs and are continuously looking for new ways to maintain a culture that is inclusive, invites authenticity, leverages our diversity, and where our people excel and lead happy lives.