13 Apr 2021

Full Time Strategy Consultant – Cloud Platforms

for IBM – Sydney

Job Description

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Introduction
As a Strategy Consultant at IBM, you will help reinvent businesses and industries by developing and utilizing specialized knowledge of industry-specific and cross-industry competitive strategies. You’ll manage complex components of an engagement, working closely with clients and their customers to understand their pain points. Your strategic recommendations will drive change in a digitally-enabled era and give you the opportunity to collaborate with highly talented IBMers. Are you ready?

Your Role and Responsibilities

As a Cloud Consultant at IBM, you will help reinvent businesses and industries by developing and utilising specialised knowledge of industry-specific and cross-industry competitive strategies. IBM Services, Cloud Advisory team seeks consultants who are passionate about helping clients define, embark upon and accelerate their cloud adoption journey. Successful candidates are experienced technologists with technical depth and breadth, along with strong client engagement, communications and consulting skills. Our platform and vendor agnostic team seeks consultants with the demonstrated ability to think strategically about businesses, create technical definitions around client objectives, develop complex solutions that span architectural and IT functional changes. Successful candidates are self-motivated, driven, collaborative, passionate about cloud adoption, and want to have a direct positive impact on our clients.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

At least 4 years of technology consulting (IT Strategy, IT Business Management, Public and Private Cloud, or Systems Engineering)

2+ years software/technology customer facing experience

Experience with “on premise to cloud” migrations or hybrid cloud IT transformations

Certifications on any of the public cloud platforms or related products

Experience architecting / operating solutions build on any of the public cloud platforms

Experience working independently with minimal supervision/guidance

Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with experience exercising mature judgment

Proven experience effectively prioritising workload to meet deadlines and work objectives

Demonstrated ability to write clearly, succinctly, in a manner that appeals to a wide audience

Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT Management, and developers

Excellent communication skills with an ability to right level conversations

Roles and Responsibilities

What you get to do in this role:

Lead or participate in cloud strategy and transformation engagements based on level of seniority

Support business development (e.g. marketing, sales), through writing proposals, pricing, risk management, negotiations, and contracting as well as transitioning from sales to project/program setup

Forge trusted relationships that benefit both clients and IBM

Support the continuous refinement of IBM’s services, including internal and external marketing, maturation/training of methods, tools, and points of view, as well as integration with IBM’s other services and products for synergistic value. Harvest, share and present intellectual capital from past and parallel engagements

Gain and convey expertise in (and study of) technologies, cloud drivers, and cloud trends for specified industries and markets, as well as the evolving role of cloud in the evolving enterprise transformation context•

In this role, you will have the opportunity to interact directly with clients. As such, travel to client sites is required, up to 5 days per week.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
As above

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
As above
About Business UnitIBM Services is a team of business, strategy and technology consultants that design, build, and run foundational systems and services that is the backbone of the world’s economy. IBM Services partners with the world’s leading companies in over 170 countries to build smarter businesses by reimagining and reinventing through technology, with its outcome-focused methodologies, industry-leading portfolio and world class research and operations expertise leading to results-driven innovation and enduring excellence.

Your Life @ IBMWhat matters to you when you’re looking for your next career challenge?

Maybe you want to get involved in work that really changes the world? What about somewhere with incredible and diverse career and development opportunities – where you can truly discover your passion? Are you looking for a culture of openness, collaboration and trust – where everyone has a voice? What about all of these? If so, then IBM could be your next career challenge. Join us, not to do something better, but to attempt things you never thought possible.

Impact. Inclusion. Infinite Experiences. Do your best work ever.

About IBMIBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that progress is made through progressive thinking, progressive leadership, progressive policy and progressive action. IBMers believe that the application of intelligence, reason and science can improve business, society and the human condition. Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are the largest technology and consulting employer in the world, with more than 380,000 IBMers serving clients in 170 countries.

Location StatementFor additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

Being You @ IBMIBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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Job Locations: Sydney.
Job Categories: Consultants, IT, and Networks & Systems Administration.
Job Types: Full Time.
Job Tags: full time jobs for 50+, jobs for 50+, jobs for mature age, jobs for mature age workers, jobs for older workers, jobs for older workers Sydney, mature age jobs, older workers, and older workers jobs.
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