Senior Manager - Lead Cloud Architect

  • Location

    London

  • Sector:

    Business

  • Job type:

    Permanent

  • Consultant:

    Tania Gudka

  • Email:

    tania@theabilitypeople.com

  • Phone:

    07776 511597

  • Salary high:

    0

  • Salary low:

    0

  • Job ref:

    125514BR

  • Published:

    over 3 years ago

  • Duration:

    Perm

  • Expiry date:

    2018-12-09

  • Consultant:

    #

Client Delivery

• Deliver high quality cloud advisory services which bring insight to complex technology problems across IaaS, PaaS and Saas
• Lead engagements and manage schedule and cost budgets.
• Good stakeholder management.


Market Development

• Lead client sales in cloud advisory services at CIO and Chief Architect level
• Support cloud-related sales proposals and bid responses
• Understand business problems, identify and develop commercial opportunities for us
• Manage and coordinate internal risk/engagement management processes.


Capability Development:

• Lead the development of market facing propositions and assets in cloud related propositions
• Contribute to the development of a vibrant and profitable Technology Architecture Capability Group.
• Build cloud skills and capabilities within our team


The Person

Qualifications & Skills:

• Recognises the importance of continuous self and team development and actively strives to achieve this.
• Helps others to understand how their work contributes to the overall success of an engagement and the wider firm
• Fosters a sense of self belief and confidence in others
• Seeks to understand others motivations
• Supports others to make brave decisions
* 10+ years experience in a similar role within a large blue chip / corporate organisation
* technical experience of; Azure, AWS, VMWare, Citrix, DevOps tools like Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, Splunk or office365 type skills.

Essential

• Subject matter expertise and experience from either industry, product or consulting background.
• The ability to deliver high quality cloud strategy and technology architecture work.
• Business development and sales capability.
• Good communication skills and the ability to influence at a senior level.
• A detailed understanding of cloud architecture.
• Industry awareness of key methodologies, approaches and market trends.
• Experience of: Public / Private / Hybrid cloud solutions, Cloud Brokerage, Cloud Orchestration, Cloud Infrastructure, SaaS solutions and Cloud Integration.

Desirable

• Experience within the Financial Services Industry or with other large enterprises.
• Practical experience in delivering large scale, enterprise wide, complex transformations.
• A passion for technology
• High energy levels, coupled with a desire to deliver to a high standard in a suitable timeframe.
• Self-motivation and ability to inspire and motivate others.
• Experience of: Technical reviews and assessments, cloud roadmaps, cloud integration / architecture / solution designs, cloud sourcing, cloud strategy.
• Experience of several of: Docker, Jenkins, Chef, VMware, RightScale, RedHat, Azure, AWS, Force.com, BlueMix, OpenShift, Cloud Foundry or equivalents

Flexible working arrangements available, though candidate needs to be able to attend F2F meetings in HQ offices in Central London quarterly.