Senior Consultant, Innovation
**Why Ryan?**
- Hybrid Work Options
- Award-Winning Culture
- Generous Personal Time Off (PTO) Benefits
- 14-Weeks of 100% Paid Leave for New Parents (Adoption Included)
- Monthly Gym Membership Reimbursement OR Gym Equipment Reimbursement
- Benefits Eligibility Effective Day One
- 401K with Employer Match
- Tuition Reimbursement After One Year of Service
- Fertility Assistance Program
- Four-Week Company-Paid Sabbatical Eligibility After Five Years of Service
The Senior Consultant, Cloud Innovation is a forward-deployed cloud innovation consultant who partners with internal stakeholders to identify high-value opportunities where cloud-native technology can improve service delivery, internal operations, and customer outcomes. This role leads discovery, solution scoping, and rapid experimentation (POCs/prototypes), then helps transition validated solutions into production-ready implementations or informs the roadmap for Ryan's commercial product offerings.
This position is hands-on and delivery-oriented, blending cloud architecture, application development, FinOps awareness, and lightweight project leadership to deliver measurable business value.
• *Project Management**
- Coordinates resources, timelines, budgets, and delivery plans for a portfolio of cloud innovation initiatives (POCs, pilots, and scaled implementations) to ensure alignment with enterprise strategy and the ideation lifecycle
- Drives end-to-end execution using agile practices (backlog, sprints, demos, retros) and maintains clear status reporting, dependencies, and delivery artifacts
- Manages project issues, risks, and tradeoffs (scope, security, cost, time) and escalates to stakeholders with clarity, timeliness, and professionalism
- Establishes and maintains strong relationships across engineering, security, finance, and business teams to accelerate delivery and remove blockers
- Ensures operational readiness for delivered solutions (documentation, monitoring/alerting expectations, handoff plans, and support models)
- Promotes cloud engineering best practices, including infrastructure as code, CI/CD, automation, repeatability, and security-by-design
• *Innovation**
- Operates as a forward-deployed cloud innovation consultant, embedding with teams to run discovery, prototype solutions, and validate outcomes in real workflows
- Leads hands-on build, development, testing, and monitoring of cloud-native technology solutions across the Innovation portfolio (serverless, containers, APIs, event-driven patterns)
- Translates business problems into clear technical requirements and lightweight architectures, connecting business processes, potential risks, data needs, and solution options
- Designs and implements secure cloud networking patterns (AWS VPC / Azure VNET, subnets, routing, load balancers, firewalls/security controls) appropriate to the use case
- Applies FinOps fundamentals-cost estimation, tagging/chargeback inputs, unit-cost thinking, and optimization recommendations-to guide decisions and communicate value
- Builds prototypes and production components using Python or C#, integrating with cloud services, SDKs, and APIs
- Partners with Ryan business units to identify trusted customers for participation in the Innovation lifecycle; facilitates feedback loops to prioritize the most promising ideas
- Identifies emerging cloud capabilities and market trends (platform services, data/AI, automation) and recommends opportunities where technology and data strategy can benefit Ryan customers or service delivery methods
• *Education**
Bachelor's degree or Master's degree in business management, tax, computer science, information systems (MIS) and equivalent STEM degrees or equivalent experience. 3+ years related experience and/or training or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• *Additional Skills And Experience**
- Domain Application: Able to apply tax and technology domain expertise with good judgment and impactful communication to contribute value and accomplish desired outcomes for clients and the Firm.
- Client Advocate: Proven ability to develop and cultivate meaningful relationships with internal/external clients resulting in client loyalty, satisfaction and continued growth and expansion.
- Operational Excellence: Operates efficiently, ensuring profitability of work and stewardship of company resources. Plans and prioritizes to ensure successful delivery of high-quality business results on time, every time.
- Perseverance and Impact: Exhibits determination, resilience, and commitment. Able to stay focused on what is under their control and focus efforts on what will most positively impact the Firm.
• *Computer Skills:**
- Microsoft Excel and Access, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, CRM, and internet navigation/research
- Fluency in Python or C# required; additional languages/scripting experience a plus
- Experience with one or more database platforms is a strong indicator for success in the role
- Experience with one or more Robotics Process Automation platforms (preferred)
- Experience with one or more data analytics and/or visualization platforms (preferred)
- Functional knowledge of financial packages such as HRIS, CRM, and ERP systems is strongly preferred
• *Certifications**
- AWS and/or Azure certifications beyond Foundation level (required)
- PMP Project Management Professional Certification (preferred)
- CSM Certified ScrumMaster (preferred)
- PMI-ACP Agile Certified Practitioner (preferred)
- Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt (preferred)
- Alteryx Certification (preferred)
- PMI-PBA Professional in Business Analysis (preferred)
- FinOps Certified Practitioner (preferred/nice-to-have)
- Valid driver's license (required)
• *Supervisory Responsibilities:**
This position has no supervisory responsibilities.
• *Work Environment:**
- Standard indoor working environment.
- Occasional long periods of standing.
- Position requires regular interaction with employees and vendors both in person and via e-mail and telephone.
- Travel requirement, up to 20% may be required
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- Hybrid Work Options
- Award-Winning Culture
- Generous Personal Time Off (PTO) Benefits
- 14-Weeks of 100% Paid Leave for New Parents (Adoption Included)
- Monthly Gym Membership Reimbursement OR Gym Equipment Reimbursement
- Benefits Eligibility Effective Day One
- 401K with Employer Match
- Tuition Reimbursement After One Year of Service
- Fertility Assistance Program
- Four-Week Company-Paid Sabbatical Eligibility After Five Years of Service
The Senior Consultant, Cloud Innovation is a forward-deployed cloud innovation consultant who partners with internal stakeholders to identify high-value opportunities where cloud-native technology can improve service delivery, internal operations, and customer outcomes. This role leads discovery, solution scoping, and rapid experimentation (POCs/prototypes), then helps transition validated solutions into production-ready implementations or informs the roadmap for Ryan's commercial product offerings.
This position is hands-on and delivery-oriented, blending cloud architecture, application development, FinOps awareness, and lightweight project leadership to deliver measurable business value.
• *Project Management**
- Coordinates resources, timelines, budgets, and delivery plans for a portfolio of cloud innovation initiatives (POCs, pilots, and scaled implementations) to ensure alignment with enterprise strategy and the ideation lifecycle
- Drives end-to-end execution using agile practices (backlog, sprints, demos, retros) and maintains clear status reporting, dependencies, and delivery artifacts
- Manages project issues, risks, and tradeoffs (scope, security, cost, time) and escalates to stakeholders with clarity, timeliness, and professionalism
- Establishes and maintains strong relationships across engineering, security, finance, and business teams to accelerate delivery and remove blockers
- Ensures operational readiness for delivered solutions (documentation, monitoring/alerting expectations, handoff plans, and support models)
- Promotes cloud engineering best practices, including infrastructure as code, CI/CD, automation, repeatability, and security-by-design
• *Innovation**
- Operates as a forward-deployed cloud innovation consultant, embedding with teams to run discovery, prototype solutions, and validate outcomes in real workflows
- Leads hands-on build, development, testing, and monitoring of cloud-native technology solutions across the Innovation portfolio (serverless, containers, APIs, event-driven patterns)
- Translates business problems into clear technical requirements and lightweight architectures, connecting business processes, potential risks, data needs, and solution options
- Designs and implements secure cloud networking patterns (AWS VPC / Azure VNET, subnets, routing, load balancers, firewalls/security controls) appropriate to the use case
- Applies FinOps fundamentals-cost estimation, tagging/chargeback inputs, unit-cost thinking, and optimization recommendations-to guide decisions and communicate value
- Builds prototypes and production components using Python or C#, integrating with cloud services, SDKs, and APIs
- Partners with Ryan business units to identify trusted customers for participation in the Innovation lifecycle; facilitates feedback loops to prioritize the most promising ideas
- Identifies emerging cloud capabilities and market trends (platform services, data/AI, automation) and recommends opportunities where technology and data strategy can benefit Ryan customers or service delivery methods
• *Education**
Bachelor's degree or Master's degree in business management, tax, computer science, information systems (MIS) and equivalent STEM degrees or equivalent experience. 3+ years related experience and/or training or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• *Additional Skills And Experience**
- Domain Application: Able to apply tax and technology domain expertise with good judgment and impactful communication to contribute value and accomplish desired outcomes for clients and the Firm.
- Client Advocate: Proven ability to develop and cultivate meaningful relationships with internal/external clients resulting in client loyalty, satisfaction and continued growth and expansion.
- Operational Excellence: Operates efficiently, ensuring profitability of work and stewardship of company resources. Plans and prioritizes to ensure successful delivery of high-quality business results on time, every time.
- Perseverance and Impact: Exhibits determination, resilience, and commitment. Able to stay focused on what is under their control and focus efforts on what will most positively impact the Firm.
• *Computer Skills:**
- Microsoft Excel and Access, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, CRM, and internet navigation/research
- Fluency in Python or C# required; additional languages/scripting experience a plus
- Experience with one or more database platforms is a strong indicator for success in the role
- Experience with one or more Robotics Process Automation platforms (preferred)
- Experience with one or more data analytics and/or visualization platforms (preferred)
- Functional knowledge of financial packages such as HRIS, CRM, and ERP systems is strongly preferred
• *Certifications**
- AWS and/or Azure certifications beyond Foundation level (required)
- PMP Project Management Professional Certification (preferred)
- CSM Certified ScrumMaster (preferred)
- PMI-ACP Agile Certified Practitioner (preferred)
- Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt (preferred)
- Alteryx Certification (preferred)
- PMI-PBA Professional in Business Analysis (preferred)
- FinOps Certified Practitioner (preferred/nice-to-have)
- Valid driver's license (required)
• *Supervisory Responsibilities:**
This position has no supervisory responsibilities.
• *Work Environment:**
- Standard indoor working environment.
- Occasional long periods of standing.
- Position requires regular interaction with employees and vendors both in person and via e-mail and telephone.
- Travel requirement, up to 20% may be required
#DICE
Equal Opportunity Employer: disability/veteran
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