Senior Enterprise Virtualization Strategy Consultant

• Lead the overall study and POC governance
• Provide independent, objective guidance
• Facilitate workshops and stakeholder alignment
• Produce high-quality documentation and recommendations
• Weekly or bi-weekly status meetings
• Regular progress reporting including risks, issues, and decisions required
• Steering committee updates at key milestones
• Provide deliverables: Current-State Assessment Report
• Requirements and Evaluation Criteria Document
• POC Plan (scope, architecture, success metrics, timeline)
• POC Execution Status Reports (periodic)
• Platform Evaluation and Comparative Analysis
• Final Recommendation Report
• Executive Summary (leadership-ready)
• High-Level Roadmap and Target Architecture

• Deep expertise in enterprise virtualization platforms and architectures (e.g., VMware, KVM-based platforms, Hyper-V, Kubernetes/container platforms)
• Strong understanding of on-prem and hybrid infrastructure
• Experience designing and overseeing Proof of Concept (POC)
• Knowledge of observability and operational tooling (monitoring, logging, alerting, automation)
• Proven ability to conduct current-state assessments and maturity analysis
• Experience defining functional and non-functional requirements
• Strong capability in platform evaluation and comparative analysis, including: Licensing and cost models
• Vendor roadmaps and ecosystem maturity
• Scalability, resilience, and operational complexity
• Ability to develop future-state architectures and phased roadmaps
• High-level TCO and cost-benefit analysis experience (not detailed financial modeling)
• Demonstrated experience leading multi-stakeholder studies and POCs
• Strong project and governance discipline
• Ability to coordinate internal teams and external vendors while maintaining vendor neutrality
• Experience facilitating technical and executive workshops
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to produce clear, high-quality documentation
• Proven ability to translate technical findings into actionable, evidence-based recommendations
• Experience in large, complex, or regulated enterprise environments is highly desirable
• 10+ years of experience
• Bilingual
• English and French required

Experience in large, complex, or regulated enterprise environments is highly desirable

• T4 benefits: 2 sick days (Quebec employment minimum standards)
• 4% cumulative over the year based on hours worked (Quebec employment minimum standards)
• 8 holidays (Quebec employment minimum standards)
• Possibility of adhering to our collective medical insurance after 3 months
• Weekly payments
• Accumulates government withholdings: QPIP, QC and CAN Taxes, QC Pension, EI
• Flexibility to gain career experience in different fields and companies
• Continue to work and not be unemployed during periods and contexts of constraining employment