IT Strategy Consultant

IT Strategy Consultant

Requirements

• Early career experience level.
• Basic understanding of core services offered by established cloud hyperscalers (e.g. Microsoft, AWS, Google Cloud etc.).
• Understanding of IT operations and IT service management frameworks (e.g., ITIL).
• Strong team player with excellent collaboration skills in diverse environments.
• Familiar with new ways of Working, e.g. Agile, Scrum
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey technical insights to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Familiarity with at least one functional application development language (Java, .NET, Node, etc..).
• Where appropriate, create applications, dashboards, or other technical outputs to meet client needs.
• An example project where you implemented technology to solve a real or hypothetical business problem (built an application, created a dashboard, etc…)

Responsibilities

• Provide consulting services by developing technology solutions and offering IT strategy insights based on understanding the client’s business objectives and IT requirements
• Advise, analyze, and define client IT strategy to increase business value and improve service delivery, including adopting modern techniques and a modern operating model
• Apply issue-based consulting methods
• Provide strategies, assessments, recommendations, and plans analytically
• You will be responsible for analyzing our customers’ current business processes, identifying bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and areas for incremental improvement.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience in consulting is a plus
• Degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Science, Business, or related field, or equivalent educational credentials, certifications, or experience.
• Experience in project management disciplines
• Experience in or knowledge of one or more of the following: Application Development and creation of user interfaces – ABAP, SAP UI5, Fiori, Data engineering and data science, Azure, GCP, AWS Oracle Cloud Environments: SLES, RHEL, AIX, Windows Automation Platforms: Kubernetes k8s runtime, Chef, Ansible, Jenkins, NoSQL DBs: MongoDB, DynamoDB, Cosmos DB, HBASE etc, Containerization & Microservices: Kubernetes, serverless computing, Infrastructure as code – Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM, Bicep etc, Data visualization experience with any BI tool –SAP SAC, SAP Datasphere, RDBMS Databases: HANA, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, DB2, etc., Business processes (PTP, OTC, GL, FA, Budgeting, Cash Management, etc.), Certification on key technologies within your platform or area of expertise, Ability to articulate key technologies’ impact on security, availability, cost, capacity, etc., Applied experience in Agile (Kanban, SAFe, and Scrum), Knowledge in DevOps Tools including Git, CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins or equivalent), automated testing frameworks (Cucumber, Selenium, JUnit), and Infrastructure as Code, Understanding of software architecture, Familiarity with the Google Cloud Platform’s data and AI features (BigQuery, AlloyDB, Cloud Storage, Vertex AI Platform, Vertex AI Studio, Google Agentspace, etc.), Competency with Python and Jupiter Notebooks for data manipulation.