Senior Consultant-Cloud Strategy

Artificial Intelligence & Engineering

AI & Engineering leverages cutting-edge engineering capabilities to help build, deploy, and operate integrated/verticalized sector solutions in software, data, AI, network, and hybrid cloud infrastructure. These insights are powered by engineering for business advantage, helping transform mission-critical operations.

Join our AI & Engineering team to help transform technology platforms, driving innovation, and help make a significant impact on our clients' achievements. Youll work alongside talented professionals reimagining and re-engineering operations and processes that could be critical to businesses.

Position Summary

Level: Consultant or equivalent

As an experienced Consultant at Deloitte Consulting, you will be responsible for individually delivering high quality work products within due timelines. 

Work you’ll do:

Leverage proficiency in adjacent technologies beyond core skills to enhance project outcomes. Proactively identify and communicate issues or risks to team leaders, and complete assigned technology learning on schedule. Quickly adapt to project-specific tools and gain understanding of client business processes or industry fundamentals. Support process improvements, automation, and innovation while maintaining up-to-date project documentation. Contribute to tracking delivery metrics and lead knowledge-sharing sessions on processes and technology trends. Participate in team building, defect management, and compliance activities. Demonstrate ownership of deliverables and actively engage in ideation and development of tools, accelerators, and innovative solutions.

The team:

Engineering as a Service provides complete design, implementation, and technology operations, leveraging our core engineering expertise. We transform engineering teams, modernize technology, and deliver complex programs with a product engineering approach. Our flexible delivery models—traditional teams, pools, or pods—are tailored to each client’s needs, offering engineering-led advisory, implementation, and operational capabilities to accelerate innovation.

Qualifications

Must Have Skills/Project Experience/Certifications:

• 3 - 6 years of hands-on experience in Tech Modernization Advisory: Advise, design and implementation of technology solutions, devising strategies and roadmap for IT landscape modernization through application rationalization, business case, workload assessments, vendor selection, etc.
• Product Engineering Transformation & Management: Managing product-driven transformations, defining product vision and backlog, designing product operating models, establishing governance & processes, and drive agile delivery for tech products and platforms
• Product Operating Model: Evaluating and shaping product / technology operating models, with the ability to identify structural gaps and design improvements that enhance governance, cross-functional collaboration, and overall operational performance
• Engineering Workforce Transformation: Conducting capability/maturity assessments to evaluate current skill sets, redesigning roles to align with evolving business and technology needs, driving targeted upskilling initiatives, defining clear metrics for engineering excellence, and enabling adoption of modern tool chains
• Cloud Migration and Modernization: Development and execution of cloud strategies, including cloud suitability & placement, migration roadmaps, and modernization approaches to optimize value and scalability
• IT and Cloud FinOps: Performing IT and cloud financial analysis, total cost of ownership (TCO), ROI assessments, controlling and optimizing IT costs across the full breadth of technology products, services and platforms
• AI Strategy: Driving innovation and technology adoption, assessing current platforms and integrating into NextGen technologies (GenAI / Agentic AI, etc.) to deliver measurable business value, enhance operational efficiency, and support strategic growth objectives.
• IT Transformation and Sustainability: Shaping and executing enterprise-wide strategies that leverage innovation, process optimization, and effective change management, enabling business growth, and long-term environmental responsibility
• Data Center Strategy: Assessment of current data centers & infrastructure, defining and executing data center strategies, including hybrid models, decommission/exit planning, migration pathways, and optimization for scalability, performance, and cost efficiency
• Resiliency: Design and implementation of cloud-based resiliency frameworks, incorporating risk assessments, developing multi-cloud continuity plans, integrating cybersecurity measures, and establishing comprehensive disaster recovery strategies to ensure business continuity

Good to Have Skills/Project Experience/Certifications:

• Prior experience in Technology / Cloud / AI Strategy & Consulting, Product Management
• Experience in Core Consulting: Structured approach to problem solving and ability to perform root cause analysis of client problems, interact and build client relationships, drive client interviews/workshops, perform primary/secondary research, etc.
• Experience in enterprise technology including Cloud, AI, Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, Data Modelling, BI, Mainframe Modernization
• Knowledge and experience in GenAI concepts, industry use cases, and the ability to evaluate GenAI applicability based on client requirements
• Understanding of Cloud, on-premises Infrastructure, virtual machines, and operating systems
• Understanding of Enterprise Architecture including integration of software components such as web / application servers, middleware, RDBMS, development environments, operational components, and security products
• Experience in configuring, building, and migrating client business processes to new technology platforms, supporting refactoring, re-platforming, and re-hosting as needed
• Prior involvement in pre-sales activities, proposal development, and RFP responses, including solution design, client pitch decks, and technical documentation
• Exposure to working in non-India Geographies (preferably the US) and / or interacting with Global stakeholders
• Certifications: Entry level Cloud Certifications (Strategist / Practitioner / Architect) / Agile & Project Management / Technology & Architecture / Data, AI or GenAI / FinOps Practitioner Certifications

Education:

• MBA or MS from a premier school in India or abroad

Location:

• Bengaluru/Hyderabad /Pune/Kolkata