Cloud Advisory Consultant 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

Qualifications

• 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