Strategy Director - technology Strategic Advisory
As a Strategy Director within our Technology Strategic Advisory Practice, you will be responsible for providing Chief Information Officers with strategic insights by establishing connections across the Corporate and Investment Banking & Global Technology.
Job Responsibilities:
- Use your deep Cloud expertise to shape and develop actionable strategies that address the CIO’s most complex challenges listed below
- Address Impediments to security, controls & compliance within the public cloud
- Manage cost Management and ongoing optimization to manage cloud expenditure (FinOps)
- Explore AI/ML opportunities and dependencies
- Cultivate best practices for cloud migrations and operational activities post migration.
- Ensure multi-region and multi-provider resiliency / failover scenarios, costs & challenges
- Provide education and guidance to senior executives on complex technical topics
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills:
- 15+ years of experience in technology ideally in financial services industry
- Proven experience within the AWS Partner Network or as an Azure Expert Managed Services Provider
- Demonstrated success working with customers on complex cloud services / infrastructure migrations to public/private/hybrid cloud, ideally within a global enterprise capacity.
- “Big 5” consulting experience in cloud transformation strategy space
- Experience presenting to executive level IT managers, ability to quickly build trust, while constructively challenging where appropriate.
- Solid understanding of financial regulatory & compliance environment and a Customer-Centric approach via a genuine focus on understanding customer expectations and helping them address their challenges.
- Ability to structure and scope complex problems, identify major issues and apply a range of analytical tools to develop actionable opportunities.
You will act as trusted advisor & thought leader through partnering with and influencing CIB / Global Technology domain experts and providing insights that will accelerate decisions on areas that are blocking strategy execution.
These projects will provide significant exposure & visibility to senior management. This role is ideal for initiative-taking individuals with advanced problem solving and communication skills.