Senior Technology Strategy Consultant - Remote

International Business Machines Corporation; Boston (KY); Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Consulting, a unit of International Business Machines Corporation, seeks a Senior Managing Consultant to lead engagements in cloud and platform strategy and the technology operating model. You will guide cross-functional teams, translate complex findings into CFO-friendly financial terms, and drive modernization across applications, data, and AI.

You will manage engagements end-to-end, interact with client directors and architects, and contribute to proposals and reusable assets.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in technology strategy or cloud advisory with a track record of leading complex client engagements.
• Experience developing cloud and platform strategies with data, AI or operating model work.
• Hands-on experience with application portfolio rationalization and modernization disposition (6R) on enterprise estates.
• Working knowledge of hybrid and multicloud service models and workload placement economics.
• Experience designing technology operating model elements such as governance, organizational design, process optimization and product-led delivery.
• Strong analytical and financial modeling skills, with the ability to turn findings into an executive recommendation.
• Experience of presenting to senior client leaders and leading teams through end-to-end engagements.

Responsibilities

• Lead engagements and workstreams in cloud and platform strategy and technology operating model development.
• Frame recommendations in financial terms for CFO funding.
• Lead current-state estate assessment and build target-state blueprint and roadmap across applications, data, AI and operating model dimensions.
• Segment applications portfolios and advise on modernization paths and roadmaps.
• Rationalize application portfolios and quantify savings from retirement and consolidation.
• Quantify technical debt in financial and risk terms for funding.
• Assess sovereignty and concentration risk across hosting options and build exit provisions.
• Lead operating model maturity assessments and support design work.
• Design governance frameworks and move to product-aligned teams and agentic ways of working.
• Manage a team of consultants and maintain client director/architect relationships.

Skills

Technology strategy

Cloud advisory

Independent client engagements

Financial modeling

Executive communications

Leadership of teams

Education

Master's Degree

Job description

IBM Consulting, a unit of International Business Machines Corporation, seeks a Senior Managing Consultant to lead engagements in cloud and platform strategy and the technology operating model. You will guide cross-functional teams, translate complex findings into CFO-friendly financial terms, and drive modernization across applications, data, and AI.

You will manage engagements end-to-end, interact with client directors and architects, and contribute to proposals and reusable assets.