Cloud Platforms Director: Strategy, Growth & Leadership

Anson McCade; England; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Anson McCade is partnering with a leading technology consultancy to recruit a senior Cloud Platforms leader to shape and grow a major capability. The role blends technical credibility with strategic leadership across Cloud Platforms, Cloud Architecture and Platform Engineering, and focuses on developing people and shaping the direction of the practice.

You will drive capability strategy, lead large technical teams, support pre-sales and propositions, and mentor senior technical leaders to ensure

Qualifications

• Extensive consultancy or professional services experience.
• Strategic leadership in Cloud platforms and architecture.
• Experience leading large technical teams and capability strategy.
• Strong client-facing and senior stakeholder management.
• Proven track record in workforce planning and talent development.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute cloud platforms capability strategy.
• Provide technical and thought leadership across cloud engineering.
• Lead workforce planning and capability building.
• Support pre-sales, propositions and business growth.
• Mentor senior technical leaders and foster continuous development.
• Engage with senior clients to shape solutions.
• Drive capability initiatives to keep ahead in cloud engineering.
• Collaborate with technology, delivery, and commercial teams.

Skills

Cloud Platforms

Cloud Architecture

Platform Engineering

People leadership

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Job description

Anson McCade is partnering with a leading technology consultancy to recruit a senior Cloud Platforms leader to shape and grow a major capability. The role blends technical credibility with strategic leadership across Cloud Platforms, Cloud Architecture and Platform Engineering, and focuses on developing people and shaping the direction of the practice.

You will drive capability strategy, lead large technical teams, support pre-sales and propositions, and mentor senior technical leaders to ensure