Strategy & Consulting - Technology Strategy & Advisory - Management Consulting Analyst/Consultant

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Practice Overview:

Skill/Operating Group Technology Consulting

Level Analyst / Consultant (Level 9)

Travel Percentage Expected Travel could be anywhere between 0-100%

Why Technology Consulting

The Technology Consulting business invents the future for clients by providing them with the right guidance, design thinking and innovative solutions for technological transformation. As technology rapidly evolves, it’s more important than ever to have an innovation advisor who can create a new vision or put one into place to solve the client’s toughest business problems. Specialize in management or technology consulting to transform the world's leading organizations by building innovative business solutions as their trusted advisor by: Helping Clients: Rethinking IT and Digital ecosystems and innovating to help clients keep pace with fast-changing, customer-driven environments. Enhancing your Skillset: Building expertise and innovating with leading edge technologies such as Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and Cloud. Transforming Businesses: Developing customized, next-generation products and services that help clients shift to new business models designed for today's connected landscape of disruptive technologies.

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
• Overseeing the production and implementation of solutions covering multiple cloud technologies, associated Infrastructure / application architecture, development, and operating models
• Called upon to apply your solid understanding of Data, Data on cloud and disruptive technologies.
• Driving enterprise business, application, and integration architecture
• Helping solve key business problems and challenges by enabling a cloud-based architecture transformation, painting a picture of, and charting a journey from the current state to a “to-be” enterprise environment
• Assisting our clients to build the required capabilities for growth and innovation to sustain high performance
• Managing multi-disciplinary teams to shape, sell, communicate, and implement programs
• Experience in participating in client presentations & orals for proposal defense etc.
• Experience in effectively communicating the target state, architecture & topology on cloud to clients
• Build strategy and roadmap for data migration to cloud
• Architect large scale data lake and DW on cloud solutions using AWS, Azure, GCP, AliCloud, Snowflake, Hadoop, or Cloudera
• Implementing programs/interventions that prepare the organization for implementation of new business processes
• Deep understanding of Data and Analytics platforms, data integration w/ cloud
• Provide thought leadership to the downstream teams for developing offerings and assets.

Qualifications:

• Master’s in Business Administration preferred
• Graduation degree in Technology based subject or Engineering with strong academic background
• Certified on DAMA (Data Management) or Azure Data Architecture or Google Cloud Data Analytics or AWS Data Analytics

Experience:

• 1+ year for Analyst & 5+ years for Consultant of large-scale consulting experience and/or working with hi tech companies in data architecture, data governance, information security and information management.
• We are looking for experienced professionals with information strategy, data architecture, data on cloud, data modernization, data operating model and data security experience across all stages of the innovation spectrum, with a remit to build the future in real-time.
• The candidate should have practical industry expertise in one of these areas - Financial Services, Retail, consumer goods, Telecommunications, Life Sciences, Transportation, Hospitality, Automotive/Industrial, Mining and Resources.

Key Competencies and Skills:

“data architecture” OR “data strategy” OR “Data transformation” OR “data consulting”

The right candidate should have competency and skills aligned to one or more of these archetypes -

• Data SME - Experience in deal shaping & strong presentation skills, leading proposal experience, customer orals; technical understanding of data platforms, data on cloud strategy, data strategy, data operating model, change management of data transformation programs, data modeling skills.
• Data on Cloud Architect - Technical understanding of data platform strategy for data on cloud migrations, big data technologies, experience in architecting large scale data lake and DW on cloud solutions. Experience one or more technologies in this space: AWS, Azure, GCP, AliCloud, Snowflake, Hadoop, Cloudera
• Data Strategy - Data Capability Maturity Assessment, Data & Analytics / AI Strategy, Data Operating Model & Governance, Data Hub Enablement, Data on Cloud Strategy, Data Architecture Strategy
• Data Transformation Lead - Understanding of data supply chain and data platforms on cloud, experience in conducting alignment workshops, building value realization framework for data transformations, program management experience
• Exceptional interpersonal and presentation skills - ability to convey technology and business value propositions to senior stakeholders
• Capacity to develop high impact thought leadership that articulates a forward-thinking view of the market

Other desired 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.
• Comfort conveying both high-level and detailed information, adjusting the way ideas are presented to better address varying social styles and audiences.
• Leading proof of concept and/or pilot implementations and defining the plan to scale implementations across multiple technology domains
• Flexibility to accommodate client travel requirements