Practice Lead - Cloud & DCI

Bell Integration; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology consulting firm in Greater London seeks a Practice Lead to drive delivery excellence and manage client relationships. The successful candidate will provide technical thought leadership, mentor team members, and ensure successful outcomes across engagements. This role requires a strong background in cloud technologies and proven leadership skills, along with effective communication and problem-solving abilities. You will operate as a technical authority across key stakeholders, supporting the firm's strategic goals and consulting services.

Qualifications

• 15 years’ experience within a consulting or delivery organisation.
• 5 years’ people management experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage client relationships and coach team members.
• Provide technical thought leadership in area of expertise.
• Ensure the professional development of technical resources.

Skills

Delivery and leadership skills

Technical Design Authority understanding

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Excellent consulting and interpersonal skills

Structured problem solving and analytical skills

Collaborative working style

Mentoring ability

Ability to travel

Education

Degree level education or equivalent experience

Tools

Cloud technologies (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)

Dev-Ops lifecycle tooling

Job description

Overview

Leveraging an expansive breadth of Cloud & DCI technical services experience as well as in-depth knowledge of market demands, the Practice Lead (PL), drives delivery excellence and supports Bell Integration’s ability to achieve revenue and margin targets.

Operates as the technical authority across key stakeholders both at Bell and across our customer portfolio and in doing so guides and mentors the business both internally and at point of delivery to ensure successful outcomes.

Supports the Consulting Services Director to ensure the Consulting operations run and deliver in accordance with defined best practice and doing so meets the quality requirements of Consulting Services.

Provides subject matter expertise as part of the sales lifecycle for Cloud & DC aligned opportunities. Works closely with CTO in defining and delivering the Cloud & DC Service offerings as well as the enablement of the consulting practice to ensure capabilities meet strategic needs balancing cost and time.

Responsibilities

• Manage client relationship and coach others in client agenda
• Provide subject matter expertise as a leader and in active consulting capacity
• Serve in project governance/leadership role
• Design, perform and oversee analysis and technical decision-making.
• Provide technical thought leadership in own area of expertise
• Pro‑active monitoring & support for pipeline aligned to practice. Review, approve and plan technical resources into the opportunity by required start date.
• Ensure the professional development of technical resources and the performance management within context of the project / engagement.
• Line Management of Principal Consultants aligned to Practice.

Qualifications

Skills & Experience

• Proven delivery and leadership skills.
• Understanding of Technical Design Authority.
• Ownership of engagement (leading the team).
• Strong understanding of markets, opportunities and competitors, as well as business issues and challenges.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills – ability to deliver effective and persuasive presentations to Bell Integration customers and employees.
• Excellent consulting and interpersonal skills; proven ability to influence and gain consensus.
• Structured problem solving and analytical skills.
• Collaborative working style, encompassing all delivery disciplines.
• Able to lead both real and virtual teams to reach one common end goal.
• Able to provide mentoring across the delivery team.
• Ability to travel as and when required.

Technical Expertise, Qualifications and Accreditations

• Educated to degree level, or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrable experience across cloud technologies (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
• Expertise in application transformation using native Cloud services
• In‑depth knowledge of Dev‑Ops lifecycle and associated tooling, IaC etc.
• Deep knowledge across DCI technologies
• Understanding of Data Centre / Cloud / Application migration methodologies
• Vendor certifications (AWS SA Professional / Azure Solutions Architect Expert)
• 15 years’ experience within a consulting or delivery organisation
• 5 years’ people management experience