Title: Practice Leader - Cloud & Platform Engineering (Google Cloud Platform)
Start Date: Immediate
Position Type: Contract/ Full-time Employment
Location: Remote across Canada/ USA
The Practice Leader Platform Engineering is a strategic and delivery-oriented leader who drives the execution of the practice's goals through effective leadership, project oversight, and cross-functional collaboration. Reporting to the Practice Director, this role is responsible for translating the practice's strategic vision into actionable plans, ensuring successful project delivery, and advancing the platform engineering horizontal across client engagements.
This individual will serve as the key authority on implementation approaches, technical strategy, and team enablement, ensuring solutions are aligned with both client objectives and modern platform engineering best practices. The Practice Leader works closely with architects, engineers, and engagement teams to ensure consistency, quality, and scalability of solutions, while also supporting pre-sales, business development, and service offering innovation.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic & Operational Leadership
- Translate the practice's strategic goals into actionable delivery plans that drive value for clients and internal stakeholders.
- Collaborate with the Practice Director to define and evolve the long-term vision and maturity roadmap for the Platform Engineering practice.
- Lead the development and enhancement of platform engineering service offerings, frameworks, and reusable patterns.
Project Delivery Leadership
- Own the delivery success of client engagements, ensuring alignment to scope, timelines, budgets, and expected outcomes.
- Provide technical leadership and direction to delivery teams across multiple engagements.
- Drive adoption of standardized delivery approaches, agile methodologies, and best-in-class automation practices in line with platform engineering principles.
- Ensure client satisfaction through high-quality execution and proactive stakeholder engagement.
Team Leadership & Enablement
- Serve as a functional and project-based reporting manager for architects, platform engineers, and DevOps specialists.
- Provide mentorship, coaching, and technical guidance to team members to enable skills growth and delivery excellence.
- Define and promote standards around platform architecture, environment automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD, GitOps, Container platforms and observability/SRE
Implementation Approach & Platform Engineering Oversight
- Define and enforce implementation approaches for platform engineering initiatives such as internal developer platforms, environment vending, policy as code, and infrastructure lifecycle management.
- Serve as a thought leader in cloud-native design, platform automation, developer self-service models, and security-integrated pipelines.
- Oversee the design and execution of horizontal platform components that span multiple product and service delivery teams.
Pre-Sales & Business Development
- Collaborate with sales and solution teams to shape client proposals, including scope definition, effort estimation, and delivery strategy.
- Represent platform engineering capabilities in client discussions, RFPs, and strategic planning sessions.
Practice Maturity & Innovation
- Drive internal process improvements and implementation of delivery accelerators (e.g., blueprints, templates, reusable modules).
- Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies; assess and incorporate them into delivery methodologies and service offerings.
Qualifications:
Prior experience in pre-sales, proposal development, and client-facing solutioning
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