Consulting Principal Lead(Cloud Migration Services)

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In one sentence

As the Cloud Migration Services Practice Lead you own the end-to-end cloud migration strategy technical leadership and execution for the organizations clients. You will define and evolve the migration frameworks methodologies tools and best practices that all Cloud Migration squads leverage for successful delivery. Your leadership ensures migrations are efficient secure scalable and aligned with business outcomes.

You will lead a specialized team of Cloud Migration Engineers and provide thought leadership and hands-on guidance to cross-functional teams. Your goal is to make cloud migrations repeatable reliable cost-effective and value-driven for diverse enterprise environments.

What will your job look like

Key Responsibilities

Strategy Architecture & Assets

Own the overall cloud migration strategy and reference implementation for the practice (framework v1/v2 roadmap).

Define the core building blocks: migration assessment templates automation tools migration runbooks and validation checklists.

Establish standards guidelines and review processes for how migrations are planned executed validated and optimized.

Shape the multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud strategy: platform selection migration patterns (lift-and-shift re-platform re-architect) and abstraction boundaries.

Create and maintain reusable assets tools accelerators and reference architectures to drive consistency and efficiency across migration projects.

Develop and deliver presentations and technical briefings to customer executives articulating migration strategies value propositions and technical roadmaps.

Provide advice on the latest market trends emerging technologies and best practices in cloud migration and modernization.

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Key Responsibilities

Strategy Architecture & Assets

Own the overall cloud migration strategy and reference implementation for the practice (framework v1/v2 roadmap).

Define the core building blocks: migration assessment templates automation tools migration runbooks and validation checklists.

Establish standards guidelines and review processes for how migrations are planned executed validated and optimized.

Shape the multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud strategy: platform selection migration patterns (lift-and-shift re-platform re-architect) and abstraction boundaries.

Create and maintain reusable assets tools accelerators and reference architectures to drive consistency and efficiency across migration projects.

Develop and deliver presentations and technical briefings to customer executives articulating migration strategies value propositions and technical roadmaps.

Provide advice on the latest market trends emerging technologies and best practices in cloud migration and modernization.

Migration Execution & Enablement

Design and oversee multi-phase migration workflows (discovery assessment planning execution validation cutover optimization).

Build and maintain a Migration Toolkit and automation scripts that squads can easily adopt.

Define patterns for hosting scaling and optimizing workloads post-migration (Kubernetes/OpenShift serverless autoscaling cost management).

Ensure migrations include observability by design: monitoring logging and reporting for each migration phase.

Participate in RFPs proposal building and solutioning for new business opportunities providing high-end cloud consulting and technical leadership throughout the sales cycle.

Risk Compliance & Quality

Define the strategy for risk assessment and mitigation including compliance with security privacy and regulatory requirements.

Standardize validation schemas and rollback patterns to ensure safe and effective migrations.

Cross-Team Leadership & Collaboration

Develop and deliver presentations and technical briefings to customer executives articulating migration strategies value propositions and technical roadmaps.

Provide advice on the latest market trends emerging technologies and best practices in cloud migration and modernization

Migration Execution & Enablement

Design and oversee multi-phase migration workflows (discovery assessment planning execution validation cutover optimization).

Build and maintain a Migration Toolkit and automation scripts that squads can easily adopt.

Define patterns for hosting scaling and optimizing workloads post-migration (Kubernetes/OpenShift serverless autoscaling cost management).

Ensure migrations include observability by design: monitoring logging and reporting for each migration phase.

Participate in RFPs proposal building and solutioning for new business opportunities providing high-end cloud consulting and technical leadership throughout the sales cycle.

Leadership & Consulting

Proven track record leading small senior technical teams in a services or platform context.

Comfortable influencing architecture and execution across multiple squads/tribes even without direct reporting lines.

Strong storytelling and communication skills; able to explain complex migration strategies in clear non-buzzword-heavy language.

Experience in consulting professional services or customer-facing technical roles is a strong plus.

Demonstrated ability to engage with customer executives participate in RFPs and build compelling proposals for cloud migration services.

Why you will love this job:

• You will be challenged to strategize direct and build a high performance organization; have the opportunity to use your forward-thinking and critical thinking to carry out regional responsibility or global responsibility based on your job; coordinate driving penetration into the existing and new opportunities and accounts to grow the overall business.
• We offer a wide range of stellar benefits including health dental vision and life insurance as well as paid time off sick time and parental leave!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin sex gender gender expression sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.