AI-First Cloud Platform Strategy Leader

Anson McCade Pty; Greater London; In loco; GBP 120.000 - 180.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Anson McCade Pty is seeking an experienced Cloud Platform Capability Lead to define and grow a strategically important practice area. This senior role blends strategic direction, technical credibility and commercial impact in shaping how cloud platforms, DevOps and platform operations evolve as AI transforms the discipline.

You will lead the practice's service strategy, sponsor standards and drive talent development, partnering with clients and technology partners to create value and sustainable

Mansioni

• Setting and evolving a capability strategy that drives thought leadership, innovation, talent development and growth, grounded in real market understanding and aligned to wider business strategy.
• Defining and maintaining services and accelerators that meet sector needs, ensuring supporting collateral stays reusable and is consistently recognised — internally and externally — for quality and impact.
• Delivering external thought leadership that raises the profile of the capability across the industry.
• Proactively aligning capability expertise with sales pursuits, ensuring credibility, relevance and senior advisory input for both existing and prospective clients.
• Building and sustaining trusted relationships with senior and C-level stakeholders across clients, partners and industry forums.
• Shaping the capability's long-term talent and skills strategy, supporting a strong, diverse pipeline aligned to future business needs.
• Partnering with operations and talent acquisition teams to deliver workforce plans that keep the right capacity and capability in place, now and in the future.
• Setting the direction for capability-wide learning and skills development, ensuring the practice keeps pace with market, sector and technology trends.
• Fostering a strong sense of professional identity, belonging and engagement across the capability — promoting continuous improvement, knowledge-sharing and role-model leadership.
• Championing the effective implementation of standards, patterns, methodologies and best practices that underpin delivery quality and assurance.
• Evolving capability services, practices and skills to embrace a progressive, AI-first approach.
• Identifying and managing capability risk and succession planning, escalating appropriately when needed.
• Proven leadership experience within a technology professional services environment, including ownership of client-facing services, workforce planning and commercial growth.
• A track record of defining and executing strategy across a technology capability, practice or service portfolio spanning multiple teams or business units.
• Demonstrated ability to influence business growth through market engagement, sales support, strategic partnerships or the development of new service offerings.
• A history of leadership success — building and evolving strategy with measurable outcomes in thought leadership, innovation, talent development and growth.
• Deep, recognised credibility within your specialism, spanning both technical and commercial expertise.
• The ability to build senior relationships and operate as a respected leader, both internally and in the wider market.
• A people-first mindset, with the vision to shape a capability's future direction and the leadership skill to deliver it.
• Strong, inclusive decision-making, balancing collaboration with the confidence to act in the organisation's best interests.
• A track record of driving initiatives that improve team capability, effectiveness or performance.
• Experience leading major capability initiatives — strategy development, thought leadership, workforce planning or talent and skills development.
• A genuine passion for personal and professional growth.
• A strong commitment to developing others and sharing in their success.

Descrizione del lavoro

Anson McCade Pty is seeking an experienced Cloud Platform Capability Lead to define and grow a strategically important practice area. This senior role blends strategic direction, technical credibility and commercial impact in shaping how cloud platforms, DevOps and platform operations evolve as AI transforms the discipline.

You will lead the practice's service strategy, sponsor standards and drive talent development, partnering with clients and technology partners to create value and sustainable