Please note : This is an initial short-term contract opportunity, with the potential to be extended on a longer-term basis. The successful candidate must be available to start immediately.
Uptime Institute is the Global Digital Infrastructure Authority. With over 4,000 awards issued in over 122 countries around the globe, and over 1,100 currently active projects in 80+ countries, Uptime has helped tens of thousands of companies optimize critical IT assets while managing costs, resources, and efficiency.
For over 30 years, the company has established industry-leading benchmarks for data center performance, resilience, sustainability, and efficiency, which provide customers assurance that their digital infrastructure can perform across a wide array of operating conditions at a level consistent with their individual business needs. Uptime’s Tier Standard is the IT industry’s most trusted and adopted global standard for the design, construction, and operation of data centers. Offerings include the organization’s Tier Standard and Certifications, Management & Operations reviews and assessments including SCIRA-FSI financial sector risk assessment, the Sustainability Assessment, and a broad range of additional risk management, performance, availability, and related offerings.
Uptime Education training programs have been successfully completed by over 100,000 data center professionals, such as the much-valued ATD (Accredited Tier Designer) and AOS (Accredited Operations Specialist). The Uptime Education curriculum has been expanded by the acquisition of CNet Training Ltd. in 2023.
Uptime Institute is headquartered in New York, NY, with offices in London, Sao Paulo, Dubai, Riyadh, Singapore, and full-time Uptime professionals based in over thirty-four countries around the world. For more information, please visit www.uptimeinstitute.com.
Role Summary
The Senior IT Consultant will lead and deliver enterprise technology consulting engagements, providing advisory services, technical assessments, architecture recommendations, and solution designs across multiple technology domains. The role focuses on evaluating current-state environments, identifying technology gaps, developing target-state architectures, and producing consulting reports that support technology modernization and enterprise technology transformation.
Key Responsibilities
Technology Consulting & Advisory
- Lead end-to-end consulting engagements across diverse enterprise technology domains.
- Perform current-state technology assessments, architecture reviews, maturity assessments, and technical gap analyses.
- Facilitate technical workshops and stakeholder discussions to gather business and technical requirements.
- Develop advisory reports, assessment findings, architecture recommendations, and consulting deliverables.
- Present technical findings and recommendations to client stakeholders and executive management.
Enterprise Architecture & Technology Modernization
- Evaluate enterprise technology capabilities across IT infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, cyber resilience, and supporting technology platforms, and develop recommendations.
- Develop enterprise architecture principles, target-state architectures, and reference architectures across technology environments.
- Assess enterprise AI use cases, AI platform readiness, and IT infrastructure capabilities, and develop high-level AI reference architectures.
Cyber Security & Cyber Resilience Consulting
- Assess cybersecurity and cyber resilience capabilities, including security posture, cyber recovery readiness, and gap analysis.
- Develop target-state cybersecurity and cyber resilience architectures, including security controls, cyber recovery, identity security, Zero Trust, and governance recommendations.
- Evaluate cybersecurity technologies, resilience solutions, and security architectures, and develop architecture recommendations, security best practices, and transformation roadmaps.
Solution Architecture & High-Level Design
- Develop end-to-end high-level solution designs (HLDs), integrated solution architectures, and architecture principles across enterprise technology domains.
- Define technology integration approaches, deployment models, and solution design standards across enterprise technology environments.
- Prepare solution architecture documentation, technical specifications, architecture diagrams, and consulting deliverables.
Technology Domains
Provide consulting, technology assessments, architecture recommendations, and solution designs across technologies including:
- Enterprise IT Infrastructure & Platform Modernization.
- Cyber Security & Cyber Resilience Architecture.
- Private, Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Platforms.
- Compute, Virtualization & Hyperconverged Infrastructure.
- Enterprise Storage, Backup & Data Protection.
- Enterprise AI IT Infrastructure Advisory (Preferred).
Requirements & Qualifications
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Master's degree or relevant technical certifications preferred.
Core Skills
- Arabic fluency and English speaking fluency
- Strong expertise across enterprise IT infrastructure, cloud platforms, cybersecurity, cyber resilience, next-generation infrastructure platforms.
- Experience developing enterprise architecture, target-state architecture, reference architectures, and high-level solution designs.
- Demonstrated ability to develop evidence-based consulting reports, technical assessments, architecture recommendations, and executive presentations across diverse enterprise technology domains.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and structured consulting capabilities.
- Excellent technical documentation, consulting report writing, presentation, and stakeholder communication skills.
Consulting & Leadership Skills
- Experience leading engagements and working with multidisciplinary teams.
- Strong stakeholder management, workshop facilitation, and executive communication skills.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts, architecture recommendations, and consulting findings effectively to stakeholders.
Experience Requirements
- 8–15+ years of experience in enterprise IT infrastructure, cloud platforms, cybersecurity, cyber resilience, and technology consulting.
- Proven experience delivering enterprise technology consulting engagements involving technology assessments, architecture reviews, solution evaluations, and enterprise architecture development.
- Experience in AI IT infrastructure consulting, including AI infrastructure architecture, platform assessments, and technology evaluations, is preferred.
- Experience delivering consulting engagements for enterprise organizations, financial institutions, and government organizations is preferred.
Key Competencies
- Technology Consulting & Advisory.
- Enterprise Architecture & Solution Design.
- Technology Assessments & Architecture Reviews.
- Consulting Report Development.
- Strategic thinking with strong analytical capability.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
Value to the Organization
This role is critical to strengthening the organization's enterprise technology consulting practice through the successful delivery of high-quality advisory engagements across diverse technology domains. The Senior IT Consultant contributes deep technical expertise, enterprise architecture capabilities, and consulting excellence to deliver consistent consulting outcomes, drive delivery excellence, strengthen consulting capabilities, and reinforce the organization's position as a trusted enterprise technology advisor.
