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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