Cloud Strategy - Technology Consulting - Cloud KSA

As a member of the Cloud Strategy and Operating Model team, you will help business and technology leaders define how cloud can enable enterprise priorities and deliver measurable value. You will contribute to cloud strategies, target operating models, investment cases and practical transformation roadmaps.

Based in Riyadh, you will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across the Middle East. The role combines strategic problem-solving, stakeholder engagement and a sound understanding of cloud technology, economics, governance and organisational change.

• Support cloud strategy engagements, including current-state assessments, maturity analysis, strategic options and roadmap development.
• Translate business priorities into cloud ambition, guiding principles, strategic choices and measurable outcomes.
• Evaluate options across public cloud, private cloud, software as a service, hybrid cloud and retained environments using business, risk, financial and technical criteria.
• Help align cloud strategy with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, data and AI, resilience, sourcing and the wider technology agenda.

• Develop Cloud Target Operating Model components covering organisation, decision rights, governance, funding, service management, controls, skills and sourcing.
• Support the design and implementation of Cloud Centres of Excellence, platform teams and cloud enablement functions.
• Define practical interactions across architecture, Dev Sec Ops , IT service management, site reliability engineering, Fin Ops and risk management.
• Contribute to workforce, capability-development, partner-management and organisational-change recommendations.

• Contribute to investment cases and cloud-economics assessments covering cost, value, risk, assumptions and transition implications.
• Develop prioritised transformation roadmaps with clear initiatives, dependencies, decision points, ownership and success measures.
• Support value-realisation, performance-management and strategy-review mechanisms.
• Track delivery progress, risks and outcomes, and help translate analysis into practical recommendations.

• Conduct stakeholder interviews, facilitate working sessions and contribute to executive workshops.
• Prepare concise, executive-ready presentations and reports that explain recommendations, options and trade-offs.
• Coordinate specialist input, maintain high-quality deliverables and collaborate effectively across multidisciplinary teams.
• Contribute to proposals, client pursuits, market development and reusable cloud-strategy assets.

• 5+ years Relevant experience in technology strategy, cloud advisory, enterprise transformation, operating-model design or a related area.
• Experience contributing to cloud strategy, technology strategy, cloud operating-model, transformation or advisory engagements.
• Ability to develop structured analyses, maturity assessments, operating-model components, business cases and transformation roadmaps.
• Understanding of cloud technology, economics, governance, risk and organisational change.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, communication, presentation and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to work effectively with business, technology, finance, security, risk and procurement stakeholders.
• A bachelor's degree in a relevant technology, engineering, business or management discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Excellent written and spoken English. Arabic is advantageous.

• Cloud financial management, Fin Ops, total-cost-of-ownership modelling or benefits realisation.
• Experience in regulated industries, government, financial services or critical infrastructure.
• Knowledge of Middle East data-residency, sovereignty, cybersecurity and procurement considerations.
• Exposure to hybrid and multi-cloud strategy, platform strategy, application modernisation, data platforms or AI enablement.
• Experience with a professional-services, consulting or technology-advisory organisation.

• Regional impact through work on complex cloud and technology-transformation priorities across the Middle East.
• Development across business strategy, cloud economics, operating models, executive advisory and transformation delivery.
• Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams spanning strategy, architecture, cybersecurity, data, finance, people and change.
• Opportunities to contribute to…