Data Centre Transformation Consultant

Role: Data Centre Transformation Consultant 

Location: London

Travel: 60-80%

Salary: £47,000 - £77,500 + Benefits

Closing Date: 31/08/2017

Join Accenture and help transform leading organisations and communities around the world. The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance.

Accenture Operations combines technology that digitises and automates business processes, unlocks actionable insights, and delivers everything-as-a-service with our team's deep industry, functional and technical expertise. So you can confidently chart your course to consuming your core business services on demand, accelerate innovation and speed to market. Welcome to the "as-a-service" business revolution!

We are constantly seeking new ways to achieve high performance in our clients’ business operations! We provide technology-enabled business process services to deliver business outcomes.

Description

Data Centre Transformation (DCT) organisation is made up of hard-working individuals who strive to deliver transformational change within our clients' data centres.  Through our holistic approach, we can optimise data centres, the underlying infrastructure technologies, as well as the supporting operational processes and tools.

The DCT practice aims to transform de-centralised and non-optimised computing facilities into high performance cloud-ready data centres that can accommodate enterprise workloads and leverage private and public cloud capabilities where appropriate. Successfully implementing end-to-end infrastructure and data centre solutions for our clients.

We are looking for Solution Architects, Technical Architects and Delivery Leads with experience and expertise in server virtualisation, data centre migration, private/public cloud and storage technologies to support the positioning, architecting and implementation of cost effective and flexible IT Infrastructures and be able to combined these skills with business acumen and an appreciation of how to realise large scale transformation for our clients.  Our DCT professionals have a primary skill focus on translating a business need into robust and integrated technology solutions.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Shaping and/or supporting the delivery of data centre build, consolidation and migration projects from initial assessment and high level design through to effective delivery.
• Driving data centre technology strategy and developing transition roadmaps and implementation approaches
• Driving and reviewing data centre facilities and technology diagnosis and assessment activities.
• Developing high level designs which support robust technology solutions, taking into account the user and technical requirements.
• Driving technology architecture, infrastructure detailed design, build and test activities.
• Driving and delivering application migration assessment, planning and execution activities
• Identifying business opportunities for using virtualisation, private cloud or public cloud for technology-related improvements using benchmark data and supporting high-level cost benefits analyses
• Developing presentation material and delivering presentations to senior IT stakeholders
• Providing input into and contributing to business case development and TCO analysis
• Contributing to re-useable asset development and harvesting within the practice
• Working on projects across a variety of industry sectors

Professional Skill Requirements

• Candidates will have the following skills:
• Exceptional business acumen, interpersonal and analytical skills with credential in strong relationship building, team working, project management and stakeholder management.
• Previous experience of working and consulting with a client to deliver value and business benefits using data centre technologies and operational systems
• Proven experience of influencing key stakeholders within an IT organisation
• Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Desire to work in an information systems environment
• Demonstrated career progression to date
• All candidates must be willing to be London or Manchester based, but offer full mobility (i.e. prepared to work away from home at client locations Monday to Friday as required)
• Ideally, educated to Bachelor degree level or have equivalent relevant experience

Technical Skill Requirements

• Candidates will have a selection of the following skills:
• Proven skills in shaping and supporting the delivery of infrastructure solutions from initial assessment and qualification through to effective delivery
• Proven experience designing virtualisation hardware platforms including server, storage and network elements
• Proven experience in server and storage consolidation, rationalisation and re-platforming.
• Experience in developing and delivering data centre consolidation strategies/ application migration approaches, implementation roadmaps and business cases focused on business priorities and benefits
• Experience in designing and delivering orchestrated and manageable data centre operations solutions using innovative Next Generation Data Centre tools, techniques and technologies.
• Proven involvement and contribution in large-scale physical-to-virtual and virtual-to-virtual migration projects using tools such as Platespin or VMware Converter Enterprise, VMM
• Some hands on experience in implementing virtualisation (e.g. VMware, Hyper-V or Xen)
• Some hands on experience in utilisation of virtualisation assessment tools such as PlateSpin, VMware Capacity Planner, Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager (VMM), Xcedex X_Factor or similar
• Experience in installing and/ or configuring virtualisation management tools (e.g. vCenter, vSphere and VMM)Additional experience with the design and configuration of 3rd Party tools supporting the operations of virtualised environments (e.g. VEEAM, BMC, Tivoli, etc) considered as an advantage
• Experience of virtual desktop infrastructure would be advantageous
• Experience of storage virtualisation, configuration or management.
• Knowledge of database technologies considered as an advantage
• Understanding of the cloud and public/private infrastructure as a service (IaaS) value propositions, skills in communicating these concepts to others and a desire to grow into visionaries and thought leaders in this area.
• Experience in developing and delivering infrastructure Cloud strategies, adoption roadmaps and business cases focused on business priorities and benefits to help ensure our clients can leverage these innovative and disruptive technologies in the most appropriate way.
• Experience in designing private cloud solutions with insights into the engineering required for true 'cloud-like' agility and flexibility including the tooling needed for effective management, control and operations
• Experience of developing solutions for public cloud providers such as Amazon, Rackspace, Microsoft Azure or others to create robust, secure and operable hybrid cloud infrastructure capabilities

Accenture will be recruiting at the following levels, Analyst, Consultant, Manager, Senior Manager

What’s in it for you?

All of our consulting professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development. You'll also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialisation. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with others. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.

On top of this, we have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days’ vacation per year, gym subsidies, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

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About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialised skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions—underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network—Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

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