Cloud Consultant
On-siteJohannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Job Summary
Consult with clients and internal teams to create strategies, transformational designs, and architectural vision for complex hybrid cloud solutions. Provide pre-sales strategy for solution development and implementation, delivering technical expertise through presentations and product demonstrations. Accountable for understanding client requirements, collecting data, and delivering analysis to address cloud strategy needs. Produce specifications for cloud-based or on-premises components and outline end-to-end solution sets to enable business transformation. Proactively support client-facing workshops by reviewing IT and business issues, while continuously searching for innovation opportunities to improve client business and drive market share. Review roadmap documents and business cases, ensuring outcomes align with agreed deliverables. Maintain extensive knowledge of hybrid cloud architectures and current industry trends to facilitate stakeholder relationships and drive strategic business development.
Required Qualifications
- Degree in relevant IT field
- Relevant Hyperscaler Cloud Service Provider, OEM, or other related cloud certifications
- Certified Management Consultant (CMC) advantageous
- Relevant industry-specific accreditations and/or affiliations
- Contributes to the development of highly complex solution architectures within the hybrid cloud domain
- Accountable for understanding client requirements, collecting data, delivering analysis and problem resolution
- Responsible for reviewing strategies and addressing a clients cloud strategy and needs by providing recommendations
- Use extensive experience identifying and analysing client problems providing the Company with opportunities for market share
- Produces specifications of cloud-based or on-premises components, tiers and interfaces, for translation into detailed designs using selected services and products
- Outline the end-to-end solution set to enable the clients cloud and business transformation journey
- Continuously search for opportunities to innovate solutions for the client thereby improving the clients business and ensuring business development for the Company
- Proactively support client-facing workshops by collecting, reviewing, and analysing both IT and business issues
- Review and update roadmap documents and business cases
- Undertake regular reviews to ensure outcomes are aligned to agreed deliverables
- Maintain knowledge by staying abreast of current trends and best practices
- Comprehensive domain/industry expertise coupled with consulting and client engagement experience, demonstrating good experience in client needs assessment and change management
- Knowledge and understanding of IT industry environment and business needs
- Excellent understanding of cloud transformation coupled with strategic thinking ability
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Interpersonal skills with the ability to develop and maintain strong stakeholder relationships
- The ability to work with a variety of internal and external stakeholders to ensure the delivery of business transformations
- Extensive knowledge of hybrid cloud architectures (Private, Public, On-Premise etc.)
- Ability to focus on detail with an understanding of how it impacts the business strategically
- Excellent client service orientation
- Ability to work in high-pressure situations
- Ability to establish and manage processes and practices through collaboration and the understanding of business
- Ability to facilitate workshops with level clients
Desired Qualifications
- Certified Management Consultant (CMC) advantageous
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