Senior Cloud and AI Consultant
As a frontier partner, we grow through great people, smart tech, and teamwork between humans and AI.
As a Senior Consultant in our Cloud & AI Platform practice, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our customers' businesses by delivering innovative, scalable, and transformative Cloud & AI platform practice solutions. You will support our customers as an advisor, helping our customers build strategic roadmaps, align business and technical requirements, and deliver impactful results. This role positions you as a leader in customer engagements and delivery excellence.
What you'll do:
- Advanced Technical Delivery - Lead the implementation of complex Cloud & AI platform practice solutions and review/validate work from junior consultants.
- Requirements Analysis: Gather, analyse, and prioritise both technical and business requirements, ensuring alignment with customer and project objectives.
- Solution Ideation and Design: Lead ideation workshops, conceptualise innovative solutions, and translate ideas into an actionable roadmap.
- Technical Oversight: Provide technical leadership across project lifecycles, ensuring best practice, delivery and technical excellence.
- Support - Support junior consultant and engineer functions whilst contributing to internal knowledge sharing.
- Project Leadership: Technically lead the project delivery team and provide technical expertise, present tailored solutions, and shape engagements for prospective customers. Overseeing implementation and ensuring seamless execution.
- Trusted Advisor: Establish a relationship with key customer stakeholders to help gain deeper knowledge of a customer’s business challenges.
- Thought Leadership: Stay ahead of industry trends, contribute to knowledge sharing, and represent the practice in conferences, forums, and publications.
What you'll need:
- 5+ years in enterprise architecture, solution design, or related roles, with a strong focus on Cloud & AI platform practice.
- Expertise in Cloud & AI platform practice deployments.
- Experience working and providing effective communication with stakeholders and executive sponsors to create strategic vision including high-level architectures and delivery roadmaps.
- Experience from leading projects including building project backlogs and working with technical implementation teams.
- Familiarity with Well-Architected frameworks, security principles, and Agile/Waterfall project lifecycles.
- Demonstrated success in leading large-scale, customer-facing projects.
- Experience in presales, including solutioning, proposal development, and stakeholder engagement.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a strategic mindset.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of influencing technical and non-technical stakeholders.
What do we offer you?
- Responsible Time off (uncapped annual leave)
- Fitness Cash Contribution
- Pension Contribution
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave
- Life Assurance, Critical Illness, and Income Protection.
- Birthday lunches, a Fun Fund, and more.
At Cloud Direct, you’re not just joining a company—you’re becoming part of a team that’s redefining how businesses experience cloud technology. As we push the boundaries of innovation, especially in user-centric design and AI-driven solutions, your contributions will help shape the future of our platform and the value it delivers to customers.
We believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential to our success. We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and strive to build a team that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We encourage candidates of all races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, ages, abilities, and socioeconomic statuses to apply!