Our Strategy practice brings together several key capabilities that will allow us to architect integrated programs that transform our clients’ businesses, including Corporate & Business Unit Strategy, Technology Strategy & Insights, Enterprise Model Design, Enterprise Cloud Strategy and Business Transformation.
Strategy professionals will serve as trusted advisors to our clients, working with them to make clear data-driven choices about where to play and how to win, in order to drive growth and enterprise value.
Work you will do:
Deloitte’s ‘Strategy’ offering helps companies address the entire range of top management challenges including pursuing new growth opportunities, developing go-to-market strategies, channel strategies, and pricing strategies.
- Identify strategies for growth and value creation
- Identify various data sources required to conduct current and target state analysis
- Develop the appropriate business models, technology operating models, and capabilities to support their strategic vision
- Providing service excellence by identifying key client business issues, determining client needs by supplementing the standard assessment techniques and tools with innovative approaches, evaluating, and validating analysis and developing recommendations for the client in the context of the overall engagement
- Developing comprehensive roadmaps for clients to realize their future state vision
- Contribute to multiple work-threads of large, complex engagements, with the high-quality deliverables
- Participate in the development and presentation of proposals for business development activities
- Maximize the ROI on technology investments and leverage technology trends to architect future technology strategies
Required Experience and Skills
Enterprise Technology and Transformation Strategy - Generalist
- Ability to articulate leading business issues and trends including the associated technology implications within one or more industries
- Demonstrate application of business acumen while leveraging information technology
- Experience of being a Technology Product Owner and/or responsible for delivering product model and communicating the product needs with business partners
- Understanding of front-to-back architecture principles, technology stack, technology infrastructure with exposure to new age tools.
- One life cycle project execution experience in recommending and/or implementing IT strategy and solutions for improving business outcomes.
- Exposure to working in non-India Geographies (preferably the US) and / or interacting with Global stakeholders.
- Candidates are required to have at least one full project experience on either one or more of the following areas:
o IT Strategy & Alignment – Delivering IT Strategy, driven both from a top-down analysis starting with an articulated business strategy and a bottom-up technology capability analysis; Experience working on cost reduction techniques, portfolio modernization and delivery roadmap creation
o Cloud Strategy – Understand the impact of cloud computing in business and technology decisions, ability to identify and articulate the business and technology drivers of cloud computing across industries, design of business cases for cloud. Certifications such as AWS, GCP, Azure will be a plus. Experience with workload assessment, business cases development, operational assessment, roadmap creation, vendor selection
o AI/ML – Strong understanding of AI/ML concepts and frameworks, ability to design solutions around automation including advanced AI / ML solutions in areas of deep learning, machine learning, NLP, Simulation etc.; knowledge of AI/ML implementation use cases across industries.
o GenAI – Knowledge and experience in GenAI concepts, landscape (E.g., OpenAI, Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services, NVIDIA AI Foundations, GPT3 etc.) use cases across relevant industries and ability to assess GenAI fitment based on client demands
o Technology Operating Model Design - Assessment of current state operating model, ability to identify pain points and process gaps; design of target state operating model and associated roadmap
o Enterprise Architecture – Experience of Enterprise Architecture capabilities such as Blueprinting, solution architecture, architecture assessment, planning and cost estimation. Knowledge of any of the major Enterprise Architecture Frameworks (preferred) E.g., TOGAF, FEA(F), and DoDAF and Tools (preferred) E.g., Orbus Infinity, LeanIX etc.
o IT Outsourcing - Experience working on IT Outsourcing model, vendor analysis and benchmarking, contract analysis and understanding of how IT resources create shareholder (business) value
o IT Finance Management & IT Cost Optimization: Experience in baselining clients IT costs across various cost tiers and identifying opportunities for optimization. Knowledge of ITFM tools (E.g., Apptio, Bee360, MagicOrange, CostLens, etc.) is a plus
o DevOps / Agile – Strong understanding of Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, Site Reliability Engineering and experience in setting up Agile ways of working for clients including the people, process and tools aspects.
Core Consulting
- Clear and concise communication - conduct client interviews, participate in workshops/trainings and present recommendations.
- Good client presence – interact and build relationships with clients and other team members.
- Analytical thinking - ability to perform detailed, quantitative analysis and research (primary and secondary). Synthesize and present insights and recommendations from data.
- Logical structuring - structured approach to problem solving and ability to perform root cause analysis of client problems.
- Deadline-oriented and quality focused - develop and own development of deliverables. Own and manage specific work-thread, develop plans for components of engagement, manage and mentor junior resources.
- Collaboration - Be able to work both independently and as part of a team with professionals at all levels. Be able to prioritize tasks, manage change in scope, work on multiple assignments, and raise concerns/questions where appropriate.
- Network - ability to chart one’s own career and build networks within the organization.
Qualifications
Required:
- MBA, MS, M. Tech. from a premier school in India or abroad.
1-3 years of relevant experience post MBA / MS / MTech
