Sr. Managing Consultant - Technology Strategy

IBM; Chicago (IL); Ibrido; USD 155.000 - 289.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Healthcare benefits

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Professional development

Employee discounts

Descrizione del lavoro

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) Consulting is seeking a Sr. Managing Consultant to lead cloud and platform strategy engagements across industries, shaping operating models and governance for clients.

You’ll work with CIOs and senior leaders to translate value into funded programs, leveraging data, AI, and hybrid cloud capabilities to deliver measurable business outcomes. You will guide end-to-end engagements, supervise teams of consultants, and contribute to proposals and

Competenze

• Deep expertise in technology strategy or cloud advisory with independent leadership of complex client engagements.
• Experience developing cloud and platform strategies with data, AI or operating model work.
• Hands-on portfolio rationalization, modernization and 6R disposition experience.

Mansioni

• Lead engagements in cloud/platform strategy and operating model development.
• Frame governance and product-led delivery within a financial case for CIOs.
• Manage a team of consultants and maintain client senior leadership relationships.
• Contribute to proposals and reusable assets for future engagements.

Conoscenze

Tech strategy

Cloud advisory

Data & AI

Financial modeling

Executive presentations

Formazione

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Descrizione del lavoro

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 education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

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.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on‑going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can‑do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM 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, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

• Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
• Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long‑term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
• Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
• Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI‑driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry‑recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
• Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full‑time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job‑related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro‑rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

Job Title Sr. Managing Consultant - Technology Strategy

Date posted 02-Nov-2026

Job ID 139815

City / Township / Village Boston, Atlanta, Dallas, Chicago, New York

State / Province Georgia, Illinois, Texas, New York, Massachusetts

Country United States

Work arrangement Hybrid

Area of work Consulting

Employment type Regular

Contract type Regular

Projected Minimum Salary per year 155,000.00

Projected Maximum Salary per year 289,000.00

Position type Professional

Travel required Some travel may be required based on business demand

Company (0147) International Business Machines Corporation

Shift General (daytime)

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position? No