Senior Managing Consultant, Technology Strategy

IBM

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TL;DR · Senior Managing Consultant, Technology Strategy

The Sr. Managing Consultant - Technology Strategy joins the IBM Consulting team to lead engagements in cloud and platform strategy and technology operating model development. This role involves leading current-state estate assessments, building target-state blueprints, and creating roadmaps across applications, data, and AI dimensions. You will rationalize application portfolios, quantify technical debt in financial terms, and design governance frameworks and organizational structures for product-aligned teams. Key responsibilities include managing teams of consultants, owning client relationships, and producing executive recommendations for CIOs and CFOs. Required expertise includes technology strategy, cloud advisory, application portfolio rationalization, and hybrid multicloud service models. You must possess strong analytical and financial modeling skills to address complex business problems regarding modernization, sovereignty risk, and platform engineering investment within regulated sectors.

What you'll do

  • Lead current-state estate assessments to build target-state blueprints and roadmaps for applications, data, and AI.
  • Segment application portfolios to provide modernization recommendations based on velocity, cost, and business impact.
  • Rationalize application portfolios by scoring business fitness against technical health and quantifying savings from consolidation.
  • Quantify technical debt and risk in financial terms to secure funding from chief financial officers.
  • Assess sovereignty and concentration risks against hosting options and build exit provisions into client roadmaps.
  • Design technology operating model elements including governance frameworks, organizational structures, and product-aligned teams.
  • Manage a team of consultants and maintain working relationships with client directors and architects.
  • Contribute to project proposals and the development of reusable team assets.

What we're looking for

  • Master's Degree (preferred).
  • Deep expertise in technology strategy or cloud advisory with a track record of leading complex client engagements.
  • Experience developing cloud and platform strategies with exposure to data, AI, or operating model work.
  • Hands-on experience with application portfolio rationalization and modernization disposition (6R) on enterprise estates.
  • Working knowledge of hybrid and multicloud service models and workload placement economics.
  • Experience designing technology operating model elements such as governance, organizational design, and process optimization.
  • Strong analytical and financial modeling skills with experience presenting to senior client leaders.
  • Experience quantifying technical debt or building modernization business cases (preferred).
  • Working knowledge of FinOps and technology cost transparency (preferred).
  • Familiarity with AI governance frameworks or operational resilience regulation (preferred).
  • Professional certifications such as TOGAF or a professional-level hyperscaler architecture credential (preferred).

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