Cloud Advisory Lead

Client Advisory & Capability Building

• Act as a trusted advisor to CIO, CTO and platform leadership teams on cloud platform transformation.
• Lead architecture workshops and strategic engagements with senior stakeholders.
• Translate business ambitions for data, AI and digital innovation into scalable cloud architectures.
• Establish Cloud Engineering Centres of Excellence (CoE) within client organisations.
• Define operating models, engineering practices and reusable platform components.
• Support pre-sales activities including proposals, client pitches and solution shaping, bringing technical leadership into the sales cycle.
• Identify and develop opportunities within client accounts to expand cloud and platform engagements.

Cloud Platform Strategy & Architecture

• Lead large-scale cloud modernisation programmes, transforming legacy infrastructure into automated cloud-native platforms.
• Define enterprise cloud platform strategies supporting Data, AI and digital product develop
• Design target-state architectures enabling scalable, secure and automated infrastructure across cloud environments.
• Define policy-as-code frameworks and automated governance models ensuring security, compliance and cost optimisation.
• Embed resilience, observability and disaster recovery into enterprise platform design
• Ensure cloud environments align with Well-Architected Framework principles.
• Design modular infrastructure frameworks and reusable blueprints enabling consistent and scalable deployments.
• Identify technical debt and operational bottlenecks and design modernised infrastructure architectures to support long-term scalability.
• Enable development, data and AI teams to deploy platforms and workloads independently at scale.
• Lead the adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and platform engineering practices across client organisations.
• Define and implement automated CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and platform provisioning

Internal Capability & Thought Leadership

• Contribute to the development of Valcon’s Cloud and Platform Engineering capability, shaping propositions, standards and go-to-market offerings.
• Mentor and support the development of engineering and architecture talent across the organisation.
• Act as a leading voice within Valcon and externally, evangelising cloud as a business value driver through thought leadership, client engagement and industry presence.