Cloud Strategy Consultant – Technology Consulting

About the role

Join EY's Cloud Strategy and Operating Model team in Riyadh to help business and technology leaders define how cloud can enable enterprise priorities and deliver measurable value. You will work on cloud strategies, target operating models, investment cases and practical transformation roadmaps across the Middle East.

Key responsibilities

• 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 public, private, SaaS, hybrid and retained cloud options using business, risk, financial and technical criteria.
• Develop Cloud Target Operating Model components covering organisation, governance, funding, service management, controls, skills and sourcing.
• Contribute to investment cases, cloud‑economics assessments and prioritised transformation roadmaps.
• Conduct stakeholder interviews, facilitate workshops and prepare executive‑ready presentations and reports.

Required profile

• 5+ years of experience in technology strategy, cloud advisory, enterprise transformation or operating‑model design.
• Proven ability to develop structured analyses, maturity assessments, business cases and transformation roadmaps.
• Strong problem‑solving, analytical, communication and stakeholder‑management skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent professional experience.
• Excellent written and spoken English; Arabic is advantageous.

Required skills

• Understanding of cloud technology, economics, governance, risk and organisational change.
• Experience with cloud financial management, FinOps or total‑cost‑of‑ownership modelling (preferred).