Technology Strategy Cloud Advisory Consultant

Technology Strategy Cloud Advisory Consultant.

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent and innovation led company with 738,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Accenture Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients succeed and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

Key Responsibilities

• Define cloud technology roadmaps and industry/functional solutions, advising clients on cloud-enabled enterprise transformation agendas within an industry context

• Drive the creation of the value case, and exploit the innovation of cloud to create new business value

• Develop service portfolio requirements including market and service provider considerations

• Recommend the target dispositions for client’s landscape

• Advise on the impact of cloud on the IT operating model

• Lead independently small engagements or stream of work end-to-end across all delivery components: client satisfaction, value delivered, teams management, financials, etc.

• Identify and nurture pull-through business opportunities, support business development effort with client and Accenture teams until successful sale closure

• Collaborate with clients, ecosystem partners and within Accenture to align their business and technology priorities

• Lead creation of thought leaderships and assets that presents action-oriented insights, knowledge, guidance and recommendations related to the cloud journey

• Interaction with senior management at a client and/or Accenture to steer recommendations and obtain buy-in on matters that may require alternate approach

Key Skills

• Strong data-driven consulting with focus on business and technology value architecting and realization

• Ability to act independently to determine methods and procedures on assignments

• Management of team efforts at a client or within Accenture

• Ability to pull-through business opportunities

• Experience and understanding of core cloud topics – planning, design, implementation and use of information technology and information management systems and processes on the cloud

• Experience in cloud advisory and/or implementation

• Ability to operate cross industry, with preferred experience in Banking, Telcos, Oil&Gas, and/or Government

• Pro-actively acquired business knowledge beyond technical role or via business school i.e. MBA

Qualifications

• Minimum 3-7 years’ work experience - at least 3 years in cloud advisory or transformation

• 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: Azure, AWS, GCP, Alibaba, Oracle…

• Arabic speaking must and fluent English

Why join us?

• We offer a transparent, fast paced approach career progression, with a focus on your strengths and continuous coaching from senior colleagues

• You will benefit from working alongside Accenture experts who are solving some of the biggest industry challenges with innovative thinking and pioneering tools

• Flexible work arrangements and a range of benefits including competitive rewards

• You will have access to state-of-the-art technology that will give you the opportunity to deepen your existing skills even as you help create the latest business trends

• You will also have opportunities to make a difference to the communities in which we work and live

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