Principal Transformation Consultant, Private Cloud & DC

NTT; Selangor; Hybrid; MYR 250,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Working

Job summary

NTT DATA is seeking a Principal Transformation Consultant (Server, Storage & Virtualisation) to lead design and delivery of private cloud and data centre solutions. You will guide hypervisor modernisation, migration programs, and data centre consolidation across complex engagements.

The role requires extensive experience in compute, storage, virtualization, and data protection platforms, with strong client engagement skills for C-level audiences. Hybrid working arrangement offered.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• More than 10 years hands-on technical experience in managing server, storage, virtualization preferably in FSI industry.
• Industry relevant certifications such as VMware VCP/VCAP, Nutanix NCP/NCM, or Huawei HCIP/HCIE (Cloud Computing or Storage) essential.
• Veeam VMCE or equivalent backup certification, storage vendor certifications (Dell, NetApp, Huawei, Pure), HPE Master ASE, VMware Knight, CDMS, and TOGAF advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Leads technical solutioning for private cloud, compute, storage, and backup opportunities, including requirements analysis, sizing and capacity planning, BOM/BQ development, and effort estimation.
• Develops proposal content, solution architectures, and statements of work for RFI/RFP/RFQ responses, including scope, deliverables, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.
• Produces high-level and low-level designs for virtualization platforms (VMware VCF/vSphere, Nutanix AHV, Huawei DCS), software-defined storage, and data protection architectures.
• Leads hypervisor modernization and migration engagements, including VMware-to-alternative migrations, workload assessment, migration wave planning, and cutover execution.
• Leads data centre migration, consolidation, decoupling, role-swap, and relocation workstreams covering discovery, dependency mapping, migration planning, and rehearsals.
• Leads workload optimisation and consolidation, workload migration, and cloud-to-on-premises repatriation engagements, including cost and capacity assessment.
• Conducts data centre discovery and assessment engagements, including well-architected framework assessments, application dependency mapping, and backup strategy and recovery validation.
• Designs and implements backup, replication, and recovery solutions, including immutable and air-gapped copies aligned to cyber recovery requirements.
• Presents solutions to client stakeholders and supports commercial teams in clarifications, PoCs, and contract negotiation.
• Maintains reference architectures, estimation models, and reusable proposal assets for compute and storage domains.
• Tracks vendor roadmaps and advises account teams on positioning.

Skills

Verbal and written communication

Client engagement

Solution architecture

Consulting and pre-sales

Migration & data centre experience

Cost & capacity planning

Education

Bachelor’s degree or diploma in IT/CS/Engineering or related field

Tools

VMware vSphere/VCF

Nutanix AHV

Huawei DCS/HCIP

Nutanix NCP/NCM

Veeam VMCE

Dell/NetApp storage

Job description

NTT DATA is seeking a Principal Transformation Consultant (Server, Storage & Virtualisation) to lead design and delivery of private cloud and data centre solutions. You will guide hypervisor modernisation, migration programs, and data centre consolidation across complex engagements.

The role requires extensive experience in compute, storage, virtualization, and data protection platforms, with strong client engagement skills for C-level audiences. Hybrid working arrangement offered.