Cloud Principal Consultant
Job Summary
Job Description
The Cloud Principal Consultant will be a key resource for delivering cloud solutions, managing project teams, and being proficient in delivering cloud strategy and transformation consulting service offerings. Responsibilities include digital transformation, cloud transformation through various cloud-enabled models, technology architecture implications of cloud migration, cloud sourcing, market trends, and assessment of cloud operating models. The consultant will also support sales cycles, lead workshops, develop client relationships, and support internal practice teams. The role is remote in the United States with 30-60% travel.
Must have:
- 5+ years of Cloud-based delivery experience
- Strong Consulting experience is required.
- Demonstrates expert knowledge with MS-Office suite.
Good to have:
- Sales and sales support experience is preferred.
- Cloud or Applications Operating Model Design.
- Experience in working with third-party service providers.
- Cloud Security.
- DevOps practices and CI/CD automation.
12 skills required
Job Details
Description
Cloud Principal Consultant
Wanted: dynamic and creative individuals ready to connect with a like-minded team. You’ll enjoy all the autonomy you need to help our clients make their digital infrastructure faster and more effective. Free reign for free spirits doesn’t mean you’ve got to go it alone. Over 1400 teammates from around the globe are eager to help you out when things get down to wire. Their expertise will put you on the winning path and keep you there.
Position Overview
ISG’s Cloud Strategy & Solutions Team supports the transformation of large and medium size enterprises’ business and IT environments by leveraging robust cloud enabled capabilities.
The Cloud Principal Consultant position is viewed as a key resource to deliver these cloud solutions. The principal consultant is expected to independently manage medium-sized project teams and be fully proficient in delivery of cloud strategy and transformation consulting service offerings including:
- Cloud Adoption Strategy and Transformation
- Cloud Operating Models
- Cloud Services Sourcing
- Enterprise Applications
Responsibilities
Our consultants utilize their experience in the above-mentioned capabilities along with ISG design methodologies to enable a client to transform their technological environment into a flexible yet cost-effective and agile enterprise. Typical engagements the Cloud Principal Consultant will lead, or support are:
- Digital transformation
- Cloud transformation through various cloud enabled delivery and deployment models
- Technology architecture implications of cloud migration and adoption
- Cloud sourcing / provider ecosystems
- Market trends and developments surrounding emerging technologies
- Assessment of cloud operating model, security, and FinOps
- Strong understanding of end-to-end Observability technologies
- Cloud Governance and Center of Excellence design & implementation
- Supports sales cycle for new opportunities, including developing proposals and presenting them to prospective clients
- Leads engagement delivery through both workshops and presentations to all organizational levels, including VP-level and C-suite
- Develops and sustains client relationships, identifying opportunities and representing ISG capabilities across all practices
- Supports the internal ISG practice team in development of skills, continuous improvement of delivery methods and sales collateral, and development of market and social artifacts to promote the practice and improve revenue generation
Required Skillsets
- This is a remote role based in the US with 30%-60% travel required
- 5+ years of Cloud based delivery
- Strong Consulting experience required
- Sales and sales support preferred
- Competency in the following key disciplines is desirable:
- Cloud or Applications Operating Model Design, Development, and Implementation
- Application Development Lifecycle Management techniques (SDLCs such as Kanban, SCRUM, SAFe, etc.)
- DevOps practices and CI/CD automation and continuous delivery disciplines
- Cloud computing and cloud-native applications development and management
- Cloud Security
- Modern architectures (microservices, APIs, integration layers, etc.) at a high level
- Experience in working with third party service providers
- Demonstrates expert knowledge with MS-Office suite of software applications and tools, including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Teams and MS Outlook
- Strong presentation, verbal, and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex ideas in easy-to-understand business terms to all levels of client leadership including C-Suite
- Industry Experience: Experience working across multiple industries
Education
- Bachelor of Arts or Science degree in a technical, scientific field or business with relevant work experience
- MBA/MS or other advanced degree(s) desirable
- AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or other relevant certifications desirable
At ISG, we don’t just accept difference — we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our clients, and our communities. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. ISG is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. The more diverse and inclusive we are, the better our work will be.
The duties and responsibilities described in this job description may not be a comprehensive list. Additional tasks may be assigned to the employee from time to time and/or the scope of the job may change as necessitated by business demands.
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