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Cloud Architecture - Consultant - Tech Strategy & Advisory - CN Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur Job No. r00102422 Full-time

Job Description

About Accenture:

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions — underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network — Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With 492,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com

About Capability Network:

Accenture Strategy shapes our clients’ future, combining deep business insight with the understanding of how technology will impact industry and business models. Our focus on issues such as digital disruption, redefining competitiveness, operating and business models as well as the workforce of the future helps our clients find future value and growth in a digital world. Today, every business is a digital business. Digital is changing the way organizations engage with their employees, business partners, customers and communities how they manufacture and deliver products and services, and how they run their organizations. This is our unique differentiator. We seek people who recognize and understand the impact that digital and technology have on every industry and every sector, and share our passion to shape unique strategies that allow our clients to succeed in this environment.

To bring this global perspective to our clients, Accenture Strategy's services include those provided by our Capability Network – a distributed management consulting organization that provides management consulting and strategy expertise across the client lifecycle. Approximately 3,000 consultants are part of this rapidly expanding network, providing specialized and strategic industry and functional consulting expertise from key locations around the world. Our Capability Network teams complement our in-country teams to deliver cutting-edge expertise and measurable value to clients all around the world. For more information visit www.accenture.com/capabilitynetwork.

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Practice Overview:

Skill/Operating Group

Technology Consulting

Level

Consultant

Location

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Travel Percentage

Expected Travel could be anywhere between 0-100%

Why Technology Consulting

The Technology Consulting business within Capability Network invents the future for clients by providing them with the right guidance, design thinking and innovative solutions for technological transformation.

As technology rapidly evolves, it’s more important than ever to have an innovation advisor who can create a new vision or put one into place  to solve the client’s toughest business problems.

Specialize in management or technology consulting to transform the world's leading organizations by building innovative business solutions as their trusted advisor by:

Helping Clients: Rethinking IT and Digital ecosystems and innovating to help clients keep pace with fast-changing, customer-driven environments.

Enhancing your Skillset : Building expertise and innovating with leading-edge technologies such as Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and Cloud.

Transforming Businesses: Developing customized, next-generation products and services that help clients shift to new business models designed for today's connected landscape of disruptive technologies

Principal Duties                                 

And Responsibilities:

Working closely with our clients, Consulting professionals design, build and implement strategies that can help enhance business performance. They develop specialized expertise—strategic, industry, functional, technical—in a diverse project environment that offers multiple opportunities for career growth. 

The opportunities to make a difference within exciting client initiatives are limitless in this ever-changing business landscape.

Here are just a few of your day-to-day responsibilities.

  • Identifying, assessing and solving complex business problems for area of responsibility, where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
  • Experience performing security design reviews to asses security implications for introduction of new or differing technologies within the environment
  • Good to have experience in cloud Process Automation and Standardization
  • Identifying a client’s high-level business needs and leading the creation of detailed functional specs and other documentation, such as requirement traceability matrices, work-flow diagrams and use-cases
  • Designing new business processes based on customer requirements and conduct user review sessions and run stakeholder agreement meetings applying thought leadership in leading the transformation
  • Driving enterprise business, application, and integration architecture
  • Helping solve key business problems and challenges by enabling an architecture transformation, painting a picture of, and charting a journey from the current state to a “to-be” enterprise environment
  • Experience in architecting solutions in at least one of the AWS / Azure public cloud platform
  • Implementing programs/interventions that prepare the organization for implementation of new business processes  
  • Experience in participating in client presentations & orals for proposal defense etc
  • Experience in effectively communicating the target state, architecture & topology on cloud to clients
  • Deep understanding of  Public cloud vendor cost and reservation models and cloud and industry best practice in cost optimization and processes (Finops)

Qualifications

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor Degree
  • MBA Degree from Tier-1 College (Preferable)
  • Minimum of 4-7 years large scale consulting experience and managing teams in a consulting environment or at high tech companies

Experience:

  • Cloud Assessment: Cloud readiness maturity assessment, Planning and assessment of cloud solutions/platforms, Application assessment and migration planning, Cloud operating model design, Business case development, TCO and vendor evaluation.
  • Cloud Architecture: Evaluate various cloud providers and put together a well-designed & optimum cloud architecture that meets the business requirement. Develop and review cloud reference architecture, Define target state cloud architecture for both public and private cloud., Experience with private and public cloud architectures, pros/cons, and migration considerations. Experience in building microservices on cloud, including domain driven design and containers on cloud.
  • Cloud Migration: Plan and manage cloud migrations, including validating application dependencies, ability to coordinate across different stakeholders, deliver cloud migration roadmaps and manage execution from a cloud project management perspective. Experience in building reference/ target architectures depicting cloud adoption blueprint/roadmap. Deep understanding of  cloud migration patterns like Re-host, Re-platform, Re-factor and be able to apply the relevant pattern based on client responses to cloud questionnaire
  • Cloud Native  – Experience around cloud native Application development, at least in terms of design, architecture and considerations, Experience in DevOps, and data integration across and within cloud platform
  • Cloud Deployment: Hybrid Cloud architecture design, integration and security, Experience in -
    • Cloud platforms - AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Foundry, Open Shift, Docker, etc., experience in Virtualization Platforms (e.g. VMWare, Hyper-V, etc.).
    • Deployment architecture of SaaS / PaaS (Salesforce, SAP, MS, Oracle)
    • Devops and Agile methodologies, processes and tools
    • Cloud Management Platforms (vrealize, Gravitant, etc.)
    • Infrastructure provisioning and management (Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Ansible)  
  • Experience in working with large US and UK&I clients (Preferred)
  • Cloud architect certified (Azure, AWS etc.)
  • Deep understanding of end to end infrastructure on cloud (Storage, Compute services, Databases/warehouse, workspaces etc.)
  • Deep understanding of ETL operations, Data cataloguing, Data access management, Governance and Security -Managing API/Microservices platform (Creation, Deployment, Maintenance)

Key Competencies and Skills:

  • Strong desire to work in technology-driven business transformation
  • Strong knowledge of technology trends across IT and digital and how they can be applied to companies to address real world problems and opportunities.
  • Exceptional interpersonal and presentation skills - ability to convey technology and business value propositions to senior stakeholders
  • Team oriented and collaborative working style, both with clients and those within the organization.
  • Capacity to develop high impact thought leadership that articulates a forward thinking view of the market.
  • Ability to develop and maintain strong internal and client relationships
  • Proven track record in working creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
  • Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment with effective consulting skills
  • Proven track record to quickly understand the key value drivers of a business, how they impact the scope and approach of the engagement
  • Flexibility to accommodate client travel requirements

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