Virtual CTO

**About Orange**

Orange Business Services is a cloud and data company that advises, manages and integrates the complexity of international communications, freeing our customers to focus on the strategic initiatives that drive their business. Our extensive experience and knowledge in digitalization, cloud and data management and global communication solutions, together with our understanding of multinational business and local teams in 166 countries and territories, ensure that our customers receive a consistent, global solution wherever they do business.

**Responsibilities**

As a virtual CTO / senior executive business consultant you work with clients at executive level (CTO / CIO / Director) to define their digital business strategy with focus on digital business optimization and digital business transformation.

You will also have the opportunity to take a leading role in Orange Business Services’ transformation to a digital services leader and help develop a rapidly expanding Cloud Strategic Business Consulting Practice.

You will use a combined strategic and technical approach to business innovation with cloud to create executive level technical strategies, act as a trusted technical advisor, create technical roadmaps and horizon planning, generate new use cases and value propositions across three core cloud streams:

- Cloud managed services (DevOps and operational models, Cloud service design, Cloud financial management)

**about you**:
**Your objectives and activity**
- Work with senior business leaders such as CIO, CDO, CMO, CHRO, Head Innovation, and their direct reports to support their digital projects and initiatives
- Increase relationship with business stakeholders of our clients, position business innovation and business consulting engagements and execute innovation programs
- Act as a Subject Matter Expert in Cloud strategy and migration, Cloud native development strategy and Cloud management as solution-based approach to solve problems
- Act as Thought Leader in your industry sector / business vertical e.g. Manufacturing & Industry 4.0, Financial Services & Insurance, Supply Chain & Logistics, Pharmaceutical, Retail
- Actively position and sell business consulting engagements such as innovation workshops, strategy consulting, Cloud strategy and migration, Cloud native development strategy and Cloud management to our prospects and customers
- Analysis of customer requirements, conducting presentations, workshops (online and offline) and consulting engagements.
- Management of cloud innovation consulting projects with large global enterprises but also small startups
- Conduct sales training in Cloud topics across IB regions
- Engage and develop trust with customers and colleagues. Work in a virtual team environment across multiply locations and geographies within the European continent
- Grow and develop ecosystem with internal partners, e.g. business units, labs and innovation center and external startups, customer and/or industry research centers

**Your experience**
- Minimum 10-15+ years related work experience with a Cloud Service Provider, Cloud Application Development Consultancy, consulting, or directly relevant in-house role.
- University Degree or Equivalent.
- Experience in IT Strategy, Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, product development, project and service delivery and commercial modelling
- Communicate daily with CIO/CTO/COO customer contacts
- Advised, led and delivered €1.5m-€7m (professional services) migration, refactor and re-architecture projects to AWS, Azure or GCP
- Delivered €7m-€20m Cloud managed services on AWS, Azure or GCP
- Certifications in AWS (Cloud Practitioner, Developer, Security, Solution Architect), Azure (Solutions Architecture), ITIL v3, TOGAF
- Experience in running innovation workshops with business and technical stakeholders to create cloud use cases
- Proven experience in positioning and executing Cloud strategy and migration, Cloud native development strategy and Cloud management and in delivering business consulting services
- Strong background in hands-on technical architecture, cloud operations or cloud service management.
- Experience in design, improvement and development of digital transformation solutions and innovative solutions
- Experience in running cloud innovation workshops and consulting workshops.
- Good understanding of technology trends and cloud strategy.
- Good experience and practice in SCRUM Master and Agile Project Delivery
- Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills
- Excellent written and spoken English and local languages.
- Experience with key verticals e.g. Manufacturing & Industry 4.0, Financial Services & Insurance, Supply Chain & Logistics, Pharmaceuticals, Retail
- Self-driven, transparent, simple, audacious and dynamic

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