Sr. Managing Consultant - Technology Strategy

International Business Machines Corporation; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is seeking a Senior Managing Consultant to lead engagements in cloud and platform strategy and to shape the technology operating model. You will deliver analysis and recommendations to CIOs and executives, spanning applications, data, and AI, with financial framing for funding decisions.

In this role, you will manage a consultants team, collaborate with client directors and architects, and contribute to proposals and reusable assets across

Responsibilities

• 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.

Job description

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.