Senior Cloud Strategy & Transformation Lead

Spectrum; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

RapidScale is seeking a Senior Manager, Cloud Strategy & Transformation to lead client engagements that assess, plan, govern, and accelerate cloud journeys. You will act as a trusted advisor to CIOs and executives, shaping strategies, business cases, operating models, governance, and roadmaps tied to business outcomes.

You will develop client relationships, contribute to business development, and deliver measurable value through cloud adoption and modernization initiatives, with a focus on cloud

Qualifications

• 5+ years of consulting, cloud strategy, enterprise architecture, infrastructure transformation, or technology advisory experience.
• 5+ years leading large-scale cloud transformation initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise cloud readiness assessments across people, process, technology, security, and operations.
• Evaluate current-state infrastructure, applications, data platforms, and operating models to identify cloud opportunities.
• Develop cloud adoption strategies aligned to business objectives, risk tolerance, regulatory requirements, and growth plans.
• Define cloud migration and modernization roadmaps that prioritize business value and operational impact.
• Facilitate executive workshops to align stakeholders around cloud transformation objectives.
• Build executive-level business cases that articulate strategic, operational, and financial benefits of cloud adoption.
• Develop ROI, TCO, NPV, and cost-benefit analyses supporting migration, modernization, and managed services investments.
• Identify cost optimization opportunities across infrastructure, operations, licensing, and support models.
• Present recommendations and investment strategies to executive leadership and governance committees.
• Design target-state cloud operating models that align technology capabilities with organizational objectives.
• Define organizational structures, roles, responsibilities, and decision rights across cloud teams.
• Establish cloud service management, platform engineering, FinOps, DevOps, and support operating models.
• Develop cloud center of excellence (CCoE) frameworks and organizational enablement strategies.
• Define cloud governance frameworks, policies, standards, and controls.
• Establish cloud accountability models covering security, compliance, architecture, financial management, and operations.
• Design governance processes for workload onboarding, architecture review, security approvals, and cost management.
• Collaborate with security, risk, and compliance stakeholders to ensure alignment with regulatory requirements.
• Support sales pursuits, solution development, and proposal creation.
• Participate in client discovery sessions and executive briefings.
• Develop thought leadership, methodologies, accelerators, and consulting assets.
• Mentor consultants and managers while helping grow the cloud consulting practice.

Skills

Cloud strategy

Enterprise architecture

Cloud transformation

Technology advisory

Job description

RapidScale is seeking a Senior Manager, Cloud Strategy & Transformation to lead client engagements that assess, plan, govern, and accelerate cloud journeys. You will act as a trusted advisor to CIOs and executives, shaping strategies, business cases, operating models, governance, and roadmaps tied to business outcomes.

You will develop client relationships, contribute to business development, and deliver measurable value through cloud adoption and modernization initiatives, with a focus on cloud