Cloud Consulting Manager

Duration: Permanent, Full-time. Location: Northeast region including Hartford, CT; Wilmington, DE; Boston, MA; Murray Hill, NJ; Florham Park, NJ; New York, NY; Philadelphia, PA; Pittsburgh, PA.

Responsibilities

• Work with clients at senior/CXO levels to help define their Cloud Strategy.
• Help clients figure out the best Cloud use-cases for their companies and understand the best platforms for implementation.
• Establish long-term Cloud implementation roadmaps and manage execution for our clients.
• Keep up to date with various Cloud platforms and technologies in the market and develop points of views on their applicability for various industries and clients.
• Create detailed requirements, including process flows and functional specs for Cloud projects.
• Compose whitepapers, position papers, thought leadership articles.
• Evangelize and develop understanding of Cloud Technology.
• Involved in setting strategic direction to establish near term goals for area of responsibility.
• Interacts with senior management levels at a client which involves negotiating or influencing on significant matters.
• Has latitude in decision-making and determining objectives and approaches to critical assignments.
• Decisions have a lasting impact on area of responsibility with the potential to impact outside area of responsibility.
• Manages medium to large teams and/or work efforts (if in an individual contributor role) at a client or within.

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years of experience working with cloud technology including:
  • Large-scale systems integration experience involving on-premises technology and public cloud platforms.
  • Experience designing and building multi-tier, scalable cloud architectures and strategies for enterprises.
  • Ability to create strategies for performance tuning, load balancing, and Caching (Content and API).
  • Familiarity implementing architectural governance processes and handling issues and risks throughout the delivery lifecycle.
  • Experience in deploying security architectures across infrastructure and applications.
• Minimum of 7 years of IT consulting/management experience, with demonstrated IT Transformation experience in customer-facing roles.
• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS or Azure certification in any of the following - Solutions Architecture, Developer or Systems Operations.
• Experience using database technologies like Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB.
• Demonstrated blend of business and technical experience.
• Experience developing IT Strategy and/or Enterprise Architectures in complex environments.
• Demonstrated appreciation of cost drivers in systems delivery and operations, as well as commercial consequences of the technical decisions.
• History of successful technical sales, consulting, and/or architecture engagements.
• Strong presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with business, technical, architectural, and executive audiences.
• Experience working closely with business and technical stakeholders to translate strategic objectives into implementable roadmaps and designs.