Cloud Technology Strategy - Senior Consultant - Location Open

EY focuses on high-ethical standards and integrity among its employees and expects all candidates to demonstrate these qualities.  At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.  

With a broad understanding of the full lifecycle of our clients’ business, EY has the knowledge and experience to integrate cloud strategy where it makes the most impact.  EY’s cloud solutions offer a balance of business, technology, and strategy.  EY works with high profile clients across the country, working to solve some of their most challenging issues.  As our practice continues to grow, EY is actively investing in cloud technology and talent.  This is the perfect time to join and have your fingerprints on cloud projects across a wide variety of industries, platforms, and technologies, and make a real impact on our clients’ business.

 

The opportunity

This is a rapidly growing area, so you will have plenty of opportunity to spread your wings and develop your skillset to keep up with the ever-growing demands of the digital landscape. Most of your time will be spent embedded with our clients’ team and we’ll look to you to provide our clients with a unique business perspective on how they must continue to innovate and remain competitive with cloud technologies in this ever-changing industry.

 

Your key responsibilities

You will focus on the evaluation, strategy, design, customization, and optimization of Digital and Cloud Technology based solutions. You will team with various EY groups with digital capabilities to pursue and deliver digital engagements and deliver solutions that will bring our client’s digital vision and strategy to life. 

 

Skills and attributes for success

• This is a technical role that requires current/previous “hands-on” experience with emphasis on enabling client adoption of strategies based in Cloud technologies through creating, evolving, and delivering resources/materials that promote client transformational outcomes
• Leading and working in project teams through agreed upon phases of project governance, requirements definition, vendor selection, business cases, risk analysis, customization, testing, training and rollout of a client's project lifecycle
• Should possess a practical understanding of FinOps and Cloud Economics
• Leading team members in the development of applicable methodologies, tools, approaches, points of view, thought leadership and accelerators to differentiate EY in the Cloud Technology market
• Being proactive and driven to learn emerging technologies and business best practices
• Teaming with client technology professionals, and third-party strategic alliances
• Developing long-term relationships and networks both internally and externally
• Interacting and communicating effectively with teammates, clients, stakeholders, and executives

 

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Bachelor's degree and 3 to 5 years of work experience in consulting or project-based environments.
• 3- 5 or more years of technical or business analyst experience in at least three of the following areas:  application development, data and analytics, network topologies and configuration, virtualization, storage management, security, regulatory compliance, operations management, cloud technology delivery, and enterprise data migration.
• 3-5 or more years of technical or business analyst experience in at least one of the following platforms: Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Services, IBM cloud services, other cloud service platforms, VMWare, Hyper-V, Windows Server, Linux, Splunk, FIM, Java, C#, Python, JSON, or SQL.
• 3-5 of more years of work in the following disciplines:  Project Management, Risk Management, Change Management, Finance, Marketing, HR, Sales, or Operations.
• Strong written and verbal communication, presentation, client service and technical writing skills.
• Confidence to lead meetings with client sponsors, management, and individual contributors.
• Availability for up to 50% travel

 

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Degree emphasis in Business with MIS, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, Finance; Master’s degree in one of these areas preferred
• Certifications and prior consulting experience highly preferred

 

What we look for

We’re interested in passionate leaders with a strong vision and a desire to stay on top of trends in the Digital and Emerging Technology space. If you have a stro