Cloud Advisory Senior Manager

Role overview

As a cloud advisory senior manager (cloud advisory job family), you will lead the design and governance of end-to-end data center infrastructure architecture across compute, storage, and networking. You will define scalable, secure, and cost-efficient architecture approaches for AI-enabled cloud environments, ensuring alignment with security, compliance, and business/operational needs.

Key responsibilities

Design and govern enterprise infrastructure architecture for hybrid and/or cloud data center environments, spanning:

• Compute (virtualization, container/platform foundations, capacity and workload architecture)
• Storage (performance, availability, data protection, lifecycle and governance)
• Networking (connectivity, segmentation, routing, performance, and resilience)

Define architecture standards, patterns, and reference models across compute, network, and storage domains to accelerate delivery and ensure consistency. Ensure security-by-design and compliance alignment by embedding security controls, risk management practices, and governance guardrails into architecture decisions. Shape AI-ready infrastructure strategies, enabling scalable deployment patterns for AI/ML workloads (e.g., performance, elasticity, and operational readiness). Partner with stakeholders across IT, security, operations, and engineering to translate business objectives into actionable technical architecture and roadmaps. Lead architecture reviews and governance forums, driving decisioning, exception management, and continuous improvement. Drive cost optimization and operational efficiency through architecture-level principles, including capacity planning, automation opportunities, and FinOps-aware design. Mentor and lead technical teams, promoting best practices, reusable assets, and a strong architecture culture.

Required qualifications & skills

• Proven experience as an infrastructure/cloud architecture leader (senior/lead/manager level).
• Strong end-to-end knowledge of compute, storage, and networking and how they integrate in enterprise environments.
• Deep understanding of security architecture and governance practices (e.g., identity, segmentation, encryption, resilience, compliance alignment).
• Demonstrated ability to develop and govern architecture standards, patterns, and reference architectures.
• Track record of delivering or advising on large-scale cloud/infrastructure transformations with measurable outcomes (scalability, reliability, cost, and time-to-value).
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence at senior levels.
• Strong leadership and mentoring capabilities, including building and guiding architecture communities of practice.

Preferred (nice to have)

• Experience with AI/ML infrastructure concepts (data, compute acceleration, performance, and operational support models).
• Hands-on familiarity with cloud platforms and common enterprise architecture frameworks.
• Experience driving automation/standardization to improve delivery consistency and operational effectiveness.

About the company

The company is a leading global professional services company that helps the world's leading businesses, governments, and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth, and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. It is a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and the company is one of the world's leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. It combines strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data, and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise, and global delivery capability. Its broad range of services, solutions, and assets across strategy & consulting, technology, operations, industry X, and song, together with a culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable it to help clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. Success is measured by the 360° value created for clients, each other, shareholders, partners, and communities.

Equal employment opportunity statement

It is believed that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, citizenship status, or any other basis as protected by applicable law. Rich diversity makes the company more innovative, more competitive, and more creative, which helps better serve clients and communities.