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Introduction

As Senior Advisory Consultant you will be the Senior Technical Leader and subject matter expert for Multi-Cloud and Cloud Native Development Strategy and New Ways of Working. Our goal is to provide strategic advisory services with engineering focus ensuring our advice is biased towards client outcome with accelerated path to business value realisation. You will be driving advisory-led lead generation and work on advisory engagements for client delivery. You will bring client centricity and strategic view on technology in each client interaction. You will be accountable for the overall technology strategy, opportunity identification and overall client success for Cloud Solutions for your clients. In partnership with the Seller you will prospect, generate leads, progress those leads and own the opportunities uncovered from a technical perspective. In this role you will be responsible for developing client value propositions, solution design and technical accelerators such as Proof of Values, adopting AI at scale and experiential selling etc. and differentiating IBM Consulting's capabilities. You are highly proficient in developing and delivering cloud strategy and assessments, business cases, operating models and transformation/modernisation roadmaps with an engineering focus.

Your goal will be to build trusted and ongoing relationships with key buyers and influencers including cloud developers, CIO's/CTO's and technology procurement.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Expert level skills in Cloud to guide technical architects on Cloud strategy and solution best practices.

• Significant experience of the major Industries including but not limited to Public Sector, Financial Services etc.

• Expert level skill in Cloud technology (Development Ops productivity, hybrid multi-cloud integration, PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), cognitive computing, API's, Cloud Privacy and Security

• Functional level knowledge and experience in Containerisation, Micro-Services and API development utilising Kunermetes platforms and RedHat Openshift experience.

• Deep understanding and experience in AWS or MS Azure including automation of deployment and containers.

• Deep understanding of the current state of the art for infrastructure automation, continuous integration/deployment, SQL/NoSQL/NewSQL, networking, and cloud-based delivery models.

• Experienced skill level with contemporary engagement methods such as whiteboard, workshops, hands-on demo's, prototyping and Proof of Concepts.

• Experienced level skills with Design Thinking, Agile, DevOps, Finops methods.

• Business case modelling skills (i.e. Cloud total cost of Ownership vs Business as Usual purchases)

• Ability to position Cloud technology against industry solution requirements.

• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills including demonstrable experience in engaging senior and executive leadership (client-side)

• Self-driven, detail-orientation

• Ability to work collaboratively and productively with globally dispersed teams

• Ability to manage ambiguity, yet producing tangible results

• Ability to effectively manage challenging situations without loss of focus when under pressure

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Certified in RedHat Openshift. AWS, Microsoft Azure etc.

• Working knowledge of Openshift, AWS, Microsoft Azure

• Demonstrable knowledge and experience in architectural methodologies/frameworks (such as TOGAF).

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Knowledge of various software technologies, methodologies and applied software engineering practices/standards.

• Strong foundational knowledge in data, and AI.

• Articulate the business and technical value of cloud services and solutions to senior leaders and technical decision makers.

About Business UnitIBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

Your Life @ IBMIn a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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About IBMIBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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