IT Strategy Consultant

The Enterprise IT Strategy team partners closely with product IT and operations leaders to shape and execute the organizations cloud and infrastructure strategy ensuring alignment with business goals. We analyze market trends emerging technologies and financial sector dynamics to identify opportunities and risks translating insights into actionable strategies. We also design and implement scalable secure and resilient AWS environments while driving innovation in areas like multi-region architecture disaster recovery and infrastructure automation.

As an IT Strategy Consultant you will be involved in collaborating with various product information technology and operation team members to identify opportunities for emerging solutions infrastructure and business needs. This is a subset of the overall responsibilities which will include multiple initiatives as assigned by IT leadership.

This role is hybrid (Mon through Thu on-site / Fri remote) for candidates in the Kansas City metropolitan area and open to qualified remote candidates outside of the Kansas City area. However the remote location must be within the US.

How youll spend your time:

• Conduct in-depth market analysis and competitive research to identify trends risks and opportunities with the financial sector.
• Collaborate with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to gather insights understand business needs and help develop an actionable strategy.
• Utilize data analytics to inform strategic recommendations develop models and forecasts to support decision-making process.
• Architect/Build scalable secure AWS environments using Well-Architected principles.
• Design/Build multi-region high-availability and disaster recovery architectures.
• Lead infrastructure strategy across compute networking and storage.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform CloudFormation CDK).
• Drive/Build FinOps practices and cloud cost optimization.

Were excited to talk if you have:

• A Bachelors degree in business administration technology Engineering or related field and experience OR equivalent combination of education and work experience.

• At least 10 years in infrastructure or cloud engineering.
• At least 5 years of AWS experience at enterprise scale.
• Expertise in AWS services (EC2 VPC S3 RDS IAM etc.).
• Experience with secure fault-tolerant architectures.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience.
• Networking knowledge (DNS routing load balancing).
• Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps practices.
• Understanding of cloud security and compliance.
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex business problems and drive strategic initiatives.
• Senior Level presentation experience with proven track record of creating and delivering presentations.
• Background in Go-to-Market strategy development and execution.
• Understanding of business case development for IT and Strategic initiatives.

• Strategic thinking with ability to apply ITIL Service Value System principles to business challenges.

• Experience in large-scale transformations.

Bonus Points if you have:

• ITIL Certification or AWS Certified Solution Architect Professional.
• Financial/banking industry experience.
• Background working with large consulting firms.
• Multi-region architecture experience.
• FinOps expertise.
• Infrastructure & Cloud transformation leadership.
• Experience in Blockchain Digital Currency and Digital Assets.
• Experience with agile and Transformation initiatives with governance/service management framework.

Applicants must have legal authority to work in the United States. Work Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Deadline to apply: June 3 2026

Compensation Range:

The posted compensation range on this listing represents UMBs standard for this role but the actual compensation may vary by geographic location experience level and other job-related addition this range does not encompass the full earning potential for this role. Please see the description of benefits included with this job posting for additional information

UMB offers competitive and varied benefits to eligible associates such as Paid Time Off; a 401(k) matching program; annual incentive pay; paid holidays; a comprehensive company sponsored benefit plan including medical dental vision and other insurance coverage; health savings flexible spending and dependent care accounts; adoption assistance; an employee assistance program; fitness reimbursement; tuition reimbursement; an associate wellbeing program; an associate emergency fund; and various associate banking benefits. Benefit offerings and eligibility requirements vary.

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