Cloud Practice Lead

We are seeking a Practice Lead for the Cloud & DevOps. The Lead will run a highly technical team of professionals to deliver both internal and client Cloud & DevOps projects. Strong organizational skills, business acumen, technical expertise and attention to detail are key in this role. This candidate is also responsible for collaborating in cross functional design and planning activities to ensure all is aligned to global objectives and standards.

Responsibilities:

• Providing a single-point-of-contact into the Cloud Practice for the BU and all subsidiary Accounts.
• Evangelizing the Cloud & DevOps Practice with practitioners and senior leaders in the given business unit.
• Being closely involved in the Cloud & DevOps business in the given business unit and having or quickly being able to develop a network of contacts with local practitioners and salespeople.
• Working with Account teams within the BU to drive sales and increase Cloud & DevOps related revenue.
• Governing Cloud & DevOps sales activity to ensure it is captured and tracked appropriately in the corporate CRM.
• Mobilization of projects and providing oversight to ensure successful delivery and high client satisfaction.
• Working with Global Practice Leads and peer BU Practice Leads to develop the Cloud & DevOps Practice and ensure all BU activity is aligned to Practice standards.
• Owning the delivery of internal Practice projects designed to enhance capabilities.
• Providing mentorship to Cloud & DevOps staff within the BU helping individuals to set career goals and assisting them in career progression.
• Responsible for resourcing projects and recruiting new Practice staff within the BU.
• Driving training and certification of Cloud & DevOps practitioners within the BU.

Requirements:

• Have significant experience as an architect or senior engineer in the financial services industry or large enterprise.
• Be able to talk authoritatively about DevOps, modern engineering practices, developer efficiency, cloud architecture, security, infrastructure-as-code, compliance-as-code, SRE, FinOps and other related themes that we consider important to our clients.
• Have working knowledge of AWS, Azure and/or Google Cloud including definition, design or implementation experience of IaaS, PaaS and DBaaS.
• Be confident developing relationships with new and existing clients, working on sales and pre-sales, delivering and contributing to global Practice sales collateral.
• Understand business needs, be able to conduct technical discussions, document business requirements, estimate projects and be able to design technical solutions.
• Strong stakeholder management and an ability to engage with and influence a wide range of stakeholders at all levels.
• Google Cloud Digital Leader, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or Azure Fundamentals certificates (or higher).