GN - Industry Utility Solution Architect

And Responsibilities:

Working closely with our clients in Utilities, 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

Overseeing the production and implementation of solutions covering multiple cloud technologies, associated Infrastructure / application architecture, development and operating models

Helping to integrate large-scale systems involving on-premises technology and public cloud platforms

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

Implementing programs/interventions that prepare the organization for implementation of new business processes

Managing multi-disciplinary teams to shape, sell, communicate and implement programs

Developing our offerings and assets

Mentoring and developing our people

Experience:

Business case : Experience in articulating business value and developing the business case for migrating to cloud.

SAP HANA S/4 Solution Design:Able to drive the business need discussions and able to map the requirements to SAP S/4 HANA system and design the process. Good knowledge and understanding of SAP Technical architecture. Good knowledge and understanding on SAP to Cloud Migration

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:Develop hybrid cloud reference architecture, Define target state cloud architecture, Experience with private and public cloud architectures, pros/cons, and migration considerations, Microservices architecture and Hybrid cloud integration architecture

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.

Cloud Deployment Hybrid Cloud architecture design, integration and security,

Experience in -

Cloud platforms - AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, , 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

Experience in working with large US and UK&I clients (Preferred)

Cloud architect certified (Azure, AWS etc.)

Key Competencies and Skills:

Strong desire to work in technology-driven business transformation

The ability to develop technology solutions and value adding propositions and take these to market.

Strong knowledge of technology trends across Utilities and digital and how the SAP S/4 HANA solution can be applied to address problems and opportunities.

Comfort conveying both high-level and detailed information, adjusting the way ideas are presented to better address varying social styles and audiences.

Leading proof of concept and/or pilot implementations and defining the plan to scale implementations across multiple technology domains

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

Demonstrated ability to develop younger talent and build a high performing team.

Flexibility to accommodate client travel requirements

Additional Information:

Qualifications:

Bachelor Degree

MBA Degree from Tier-1 College (Preferable)

Minimum of 2+ years large scale consulting experience and managing teams in a consulting environment or at high tech companies

Exposure to Utilities is required