Cloud & Platform Transformation Senior Consultant

Job Description & Summary

The opportunity

Help clients define and mobilize secure, governed and economically sound Azure transformation programs, connecting platform choices to operating-model and business outcomes.

What you will be doing

Cloud advisory

• Lead cloud maturity, estate, migration-readiness and platform-governance assessments.
• Develop cloud strategies, migration and modernization roadmaps, landing-zone requirements and investment priorities.
• Facilitate decision-making across public cloud, hybrid cloud, application modernization and platform services.
• Identify risks, dependencies and organizational changes required for successful adoption.

Operating model, governance & economics

• Design cloud operating models covering organization, decision rights, service management, platform engineering, DevSecOps and vendor governance.
• Define governance guardrails for identity, security, policy, resilience, compliance, data protection and cost management.
• Shape FinOps capabilities, cost transparency, consumption governance and optimization opportunities.
• Work with the Business Value Lead on TCO, investment cases and benefits tracking.

Engagement delivery & growth

• Lead advisory workstreams, manage plans, risks, dependencies and client stakeholders.
• Support the Cloud Architect in solution shaping, architecture workshops, proposals and technical assurance.
• Create reusable assessment tools, roadmaps, reference patterns and point-of-view materials.

What we need from you

• 7+ years in cloud transformation, infrastructure, platform engineering, enterprise architecture or technology consulting.
• Strong Azure knowledge across landing zones, identity, networking, governance, security, resilience, migration, DevOps and automation.
• Experience with cloud operating models, FinOps, migration planning and transformation governance.
• Ability to communicate architecture and delivery choices to both executive and technical audiences.
• Strong consulting delivery, facilitation and workstream leadership skills.

Preferred qualifications

• Azure Solutions Architect Expert is strongly preferred; AZ-104, AZ-500, DevOps or FinOps credentials are advantageous.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, policy-as-code and modern platform engineering is desirable.
• Professional-services and multi-industry experience are preferred.

Measures of success

• Quality and actionability of cloud strategies and roadmaps
• Accuracy of readiness, risk and cost assessments
• Workstream delivery against scope, quality and commercial expectations
• Contribution to qualified pipeline and winning proposals
• Reuse of methods, accelerators and knowledge assets

Key interfaces

• Microsoft Cloud Architect and the other core team members
• PwC Advisory sector and functional leaders
• Cybersecurity, risk, privacy, legal, tax, deals, change and delivery specialists
• Microsoft alliance and partner ecosystem stakeholders
• Client executives, business owners, technology leaders and delivery teams.

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