Senior Advisory Consultant

Your role and responsibilities

Be the Trusted Advisor Who Shapes the Future Through Technology Leadership.
Are you a strategic thinker with a deep experience in cloud technology and passion for public sector and/or banking and finance transformation? Do you thrive on solving complex problems, influencing senior stakeholders, and driving real outcomes through cloud, data, and AI? If you're ready to lead with purpose and help clients reimagine their future, IBM Consulting wants you.

At IBM, we're a hybrid cloud, data and AI company on a mission to become the most productive organisation in the world and help our clients do the same. By applying intelligence, reason and science, we bring hybrid cloud, data and AI strategies to life, transforming business, society and the human condition.

We're looking for a Senior Advisory Consultant who brings deep expertise in cloud strategy, technology modernisation, and transformation-someone who has walked in the shoes of public and/or finance sector clients and knows what it takes to turn vision into reality.

What You'll Do

• Lead strategic advisory engagements focused on multi-cloud, cloud-native development, and new ways of working.
• Develop implementable technology roadmaps, business cases, and operating models that accelerate value.
• Be the technical leader and trusted advisor for hybrid cloud, data, and AI adoption guiding clients from strategy to execution.
• Engage with senior stakeholders (CIOs, CTOs, COOs and procurement leaders) to shape and influence transformation agendas.
• Co-create solutions with clients using Design Thinking, Agile, and experiential selling methods.
• Drive advisory-led lead generation, opportunity shaping, and technical solutioning in partnership with IBM sellers and ecosystem partners.
• Lead a team of advisory consultants and architects and help maturing advisory practice.

Who You Are

• A strategic technologist with firsthand experience in public and/or financial services sector transformation.
• A storyteller and influencer who can engage senior leaders and build trust to deliver outcome.
• A builder of technology roadmaps from cloud strategy to AI adoption with a bias for action and engineering excellence.
• A collaboratorwho thrives in diverse, global teams and brings clarity to ambiguity.
• A lifelong learner who's passionate about innovation, quick to adapt and keen on making a real impact.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Your Skills & Experience

• Expertise in cloud platforms(AWS/Azure/GCP/ RedHat OpenShift) and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong understanding of DevOps, FinOps, containerisation, and microservices.
• Experience with infrastructure automation, continuous integration/deployment, and API development.
• Proven ability to develop complex business cases, TCO models, technology assessments and cloud migration and modernisation strategies.
• Certified in one or more cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP/ RedHat).
• Sound understanding of architectural frameworks (e.g., TOGAF) and modern software engineering practices.
• Foundational knowledge in data and AI, and ability to articulate their business value to senior clients.

Other Requirements:

• Australian citizen and eligible to go through security clearance.
• Willing to travel mostly as/when required.

Preferred technical and professional experience

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ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

Client-provided location(s): Canberra, Australia

Job ID: IBM-62105

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-10-02T18:47:26