Sr. Managing Consultant - Technology Strategy

International Business Machines Corporation; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Consulting in the United States seeks a Senior Managing Consultant to lead engagements in cloud strategy and operating models, shaping target state with data and AI considerations. You will present recommendations to CIOs and executives, guiding cross-functional teams across the technology estate.

You will manage a team of consultants, drive proposals, and deliver value through modernization roadmaps, governance, and product-led delivery. This role supports remote work within the US.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in technology strategy or cloud advisory.
• Experience leading complex client engagements with impact.
• Experience developing cloud/platform strategies, data or operating model work.
• Hands-on with application portfolio rationalization and modernization.
• Knowledge of hybrid/multicloud models and cost considerations.
• Strong analytical and financial modeling abilities.
• Experience presenting to senior client leaders and leading teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead engagements and workstreams in cloud strategy and operating model development.
• Develop target-state designs incorporating data and AI considerations.
• Provide analysis and recommendations to CIOs and executive stakeholders.
• Assess technology estate across applications, data, AI and operating models.
• Build roadmaps with realistic velocity, cost, value and impact.
• Rationalize portfolios and quantify retirement/consolidation benefits.
• Quantify technical debt in financial terms for funding.
• Frame platform engineering investment to improve delivery throughput.
• Lead consulting teams and manage client director/architect relationships.
• Contribute to proposals and reusable assets.

Skills

Technology strategy

Cloud advisory

Data & AI

Operating model design

Financial modeling

Executive communication

Team leadership

Job description

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You'll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you'll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your role and responsibilities

As Senior Managing Consultant, you lead engagements and workstreams in cloud and platform strategy and technology operating model development, extending into data and AI where they shape the target state, producing the analysis and recommendations that engagement leaders take to CIOs and other executive stakeholders. You work across the technology estate and the operating model that delivers it, and you express recommendations in the financial terms a chief financial officer will fund.

• Lead current-state estate assessment and build the target-state blueprint and roadmap, cutting across applications, data, AI and operating model dimensions.
• Segment application portfolios and make disposition and architecture recommendations across a holistic set of modernization paths, and shape roadmaps built on realistic velocity, cost, value and business impact assumptions.
• Rationalize application portfolios, scoring business fitness against technical health and quantifying the savings from retirement and consolidation.
• Quantify technical debt in financial and risk terms that a chief financial officer can fund.
• Assess sovereignty and concentration risk against the hosting options available to the client, and build exit provisions into the roadmap.
• Frame platform engineering investment in delivery throughput terms so it can compete with feature work for funding.
• Lead operating model maturity assessments that end in a decision, and support operating model design work led by the Associate Partner.
• Design elements of the technology operating model, including governance frameworks and organizational structures, and the move to product-aligned teams and agentic ways of working.
• Manage a team of consultants day-to-day and own working relationships with client directors and architects.
• Contribute to proposals and to the team's reusable assets.

This job can be performed from anywhere in the US.

Required technical and professional expertise

• Deep expertise in technology strategy or cloud advisory, with a demonstrated track record of independently leading complex client engagements and applying prior client experience to deliver immediate impact.
• Experience of developing cloud and platform strategies, with exposure to 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.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Experience quantifying technical debt or building a modernization business case.
• Experience of developing AI and data strategies and supporting business cases.
• Working knowledge of FinOps and technology cost transparency, with experience of building cloud cost and modernization business cases.
• Exposure to platform engineering and internal developer platforms.
• Familiarity with AI governance frameworks such as the NIST AI Risk Management Framework or ISO/IEC 42001.
• Familiarity with operational resilience regulation in financial services or other regulated sectors.
• Professional certifications such as TOGAF or a professional-level hyperscaler architecture credential.

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.