{bc}
linkedin

Principal Consultant – Digital Transformation & Strategy

Uptime Institute
Dubai, UAE
Full-time
Mid-Senior
Onsite
Discovered 3 weeks ago
Digital TransformationDigital Economy StrategyGovernment TransformationCloudData CentersAI
Free

Job Fit Check

Base Career helps you apply smarter for this job.

?%
Ready to Scan

Key skills for this role

Digital TransformationDigital Economy StrategyGovernment Transformation
Smart Apply

Full Job Posting

Company Description

Uptime Institute is the Global Digital Infrastructure Authority.

With over 4,300 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 t

Uptime’s Tier Standard is the IT industry’s most trusted and adopted global standard for the design, construction, and operation of data centers.

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).

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.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead digital transformation and digital economy strategy engagements, including current-state and maturity assessments, target-state vision, strategic priorities and multi-year roadmaps.
  • Advise government and public-sector clients on digital government, digital economy development, citizen and business services, shared digital platforms, cloud, data, AI and emerging technologies.
  • Define target operating models, governance structures, decision rights, transformation offices, KPIs and organizational capabilities required to support transformation.
  • Translate economic, business, government and policy objectives into practical digital capabilities, technology requirements and prioritized initiatives.
  • Assess digital economy opportunities and enabling factors, including ecosystem development, private-sector participation, investment attraction and relevant policy/regulatory considerations.
  • Develop and assess strategic business cases, investment priorities, implementation dependencies, risks and benefits in collaboration with financial and technical specialists.
  • Lead executive interviews, discovery sessions and workshops, and communicate recommendations effectively to senior government, business and technology stakeholders.
  • Lead analysis and advisory workstreams, including research, benchmarking, maturity assessments and synthesis of findings, and develop high-quality client reports, executive presentations, strategies and implementation roadmaps.
  • Support proposal development, solution shaping and business-development activities for Digital Transformation and IT Advisory engagements.

Experience & Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, IT, Computer Science, Business, Management or a related discipline; postgraduate qualification is preferred.
  • 10–15+ years of relevant experience in digital transformation, digital economy strategy, technology strategy, management consulting or IT advisory.
  • At least 5+ years of experience in a consulting or advisory role, preferably with a recognized consulting firm.
  • Strong experience delivering digital transformation and/or digital economy strategy engagements for government or public-sector organizations, preferably in the Middle East/GCC or broader MENA region.
  • Demonstrated ability to perform structured analysis, benchmarking, maturity assessments and strategic assessments, and translate findings into clear, actionable recommendations.
  • Strong experience developing client-facing reports, executive presentations, strategy documents, business cases and transformation roadmaps.
  • Proven experience leading client workstreams, facilitating workshops and engaging with senior executives, CIOs, CTOs and government stakeholders.

Apply for this job in 1 click

Skip the repetitive application forms

Install the Base Career Chrome Extension and autofill job applications across major job boards with your profile.

Sarah M.James T.Maya R.

Trusted by over 500,000 job seekers on Base Career

Start Free Today