Company Description
Cloud is increasingly pervasive across all that our clients do. With that, clients are asking us new questions: how do I control cloud costs? how do I accelerate migration? how do I ensure have the right process and skills for the cloud journey? I’ve migrated what now?
These questions are reflective of the maturity we
are seeing in the adoption of Cloud across South Africa. At Deloitte Africa, we
help clients identify and solve their most critical Cloud challenges such as
the ones above.
Job Description
As a Cloud Advisor Manager or Senior Manager, you
will work with our clients on these pressing challenges and continually engage
them as trusted partners and cloud thought leaders. Your key role is to help
clients realize business and technical value from embarking on their cloud
journey. You will engage in pre-sales discussions, building Proof of Concepts /
Value, as well as in delivery. Your knowledge and experience in Cloud
implementations and technology strategy will position you well to advise
clients pragmatically and enable multi-year cloud projects. You will do this
using Deloitte’s Global Cloud Transformation frameworks, methodologies, and
tools.
Scope and deliver Cloud Transformation projects such
as Cloud Strategy, Cloud Assessments, Cloud Strategic Project Management, Cloud
Operating Models, and Cloud Center of Excellence.
Pre-sales support on Cloud Transformation topics.
Support the client in setting expectations of what
the cloud can provide. Developing a cloud strategy and aligning it with the
overall organization’s strategy.
Develop multi-year Cloud Transformation roadmaps.
Coach and educate stakeholders (internal and
clients) on cloud platforms, increasing their knowledge and ability to use
them.
Engage the client team to understand budget
constraints and quarterly planning, which may affect the cloud platforms used
in the organization.
Support clients to understand, strategize, and
architect for multi-cloud and integrate op-premise systems.
Assist clients in defining and communicating Cloud
value through a case for change or business case developments; as well as
measuring the value realization of the business case throughout the cloud
journey.
Develop conceptual and logical client architectures.
Provide recommendations for future architecture to clients.
Run Cloud POCs to demonstrate new
technologies/approaches to clients.
Conduct market research to ensure awareness of
Technology and cloud trends as well as benchmarks and package them for client
consideration.
Lead engagements or stream of work end-to-end across
all delivery components.
Lead the creation of thought leadership and assets
that present action-oriented insights, knowledge, guidance, and recommendations
related to the cloud journey
Interaction with senior management at a client
and/or Deloitte to steer recommendations and obtain buy-in on matters that may
require an alternate approach
Key Skills:
Communication: written and verbal using presentation
technologies
Experience in proposal writing and articulating a
value proposition
Cloud experience (migration or modernization or
analytics, etc.) on at least one hyper scaler with associate-level certifications
Technology Strategy or Enterprise Service Management
or Cloud Advisory (Strategy, Operating Model, etc.) experience
Deep analytical skills with a focus on business and
technology value architecting and realization
Ability to act independently to determine methods
and procedures for assignments
Management of team efforts at a client or within
Deloitte within budget and time constraints
Ability to operate cross-industry, with preferred
experience in Financial Services, Telecommunication, Mining, and/or Consumer
Minimum 8 years of work experience in technology; at
least 2 years in cloud work
Proven and relevant past consulting experience;
alternatively global technology services firm, cloud firm, or seasoned industry
position focused on cloud transformation (and demonstration of intrinsic
consulting skills)
Cloud certifications: FinOps, Azure, AWS, GCP, and
any other relevant cloud certifications
Other certificates: TOGAF, ITIL
Qualifications
Minimum 8 years of work experience in technology; at
least 2 years in cloud work
Proven and relevant past consulting experience;
alternatively global technology services firm, cloud firm, or seasoned industry
position focused on cloud transformation (and demonstration of intrinsic
consulting skills)
Cloud certifications: FinOps, Azure, AWS, GCP, and
any other relevant cloud certifications
Other certificates: TOGAF, ITIL
Additional Information
At Deloitte, we want everyone to feel they can be
themselves and to thrive at work—in every country, in everything we do, every
day. We aim to create a workplace where everyone is treated fairly and with
respect, including reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. We
seek to create and leverage our diverse workforce to build an inclusive
environment across the African continent.