Cloud Consultant

Company Description

Version 1 proves that IT can make a real difference to our customers’ businesses. We are trusted by global brands to deliver IT services and solutions which drive customer success. Our 3500+ strong team works closely with our technology partners to provide independent advice that helps our customers navigate the rapidly changing world of IT. Our greatest strength is balance in our efforts to achieve Customer Success, Empowered People, and a Strong Organisation, underpinned by a commitment to our values. We believe this is what makes Version 1 different, and more importantly, our customers agree. You will get exposure to innovative technologies whilst working within a dedicated and expanding team environment, where you can shape your own future with us.

We promote a flexible work environment that enables our teams to go the extra mile for our clients. We inspire our employees to find new and innovative ways to deliver impact and leverage new technologies. 

This senior role is a part of the Solution Leadership team within the Office of the CTO. The Solution Leadership Team is comprised of highly experienced Consultants and Architects. We ensure that our solutions are good for our organisation, are deliverable and sustainable for our people and deliver successful business outcomes for our customers. This varied and challenging role will be responsible for helping to grow, drive and differentiate Version 1, as part of our wider and ambitious corporate growth plans. 

• Defining and shaping Public Cloud Strategies for medium and large organisations across sectors.
• Helping customers to create and refine their corresponding business cases for Public Cloud transformation to solve specific business problems.
• Developing compelling solution architectures for prospects and clients across cloud vendor technologies (predominantly Microsoft, AWS) depending on the client needs.
• Engage widely across the organisation and initiate, support, and lead pre-sales discussions with Version 1 clients and internal stakeholders.
• Lead, define and contribute to propositions, bid responses and proposals as required in a highly commercial context.
• Work with business users to elicit solution needs & develop best practice high-level architectures and designs in response to customer compelling events, business, and technology challenges, evolving requirements and wider market needs.
• Provide innovative, accurate and high-quality design thinking with associated solution artefacts e.g., architecture, configuration, and setup.
• Provide thought leadership by delivering insightful and differentiating customer focused content (blogs, webinars, white papers etc).

We would very much like to speak to you if you have the following:

• 5+ years’ experience in consultancy or senior architect roles.
• Excellent customer-facing communication, presentation and consultancy skills for tender responses, bids, workshops and proposals.
• A passion for delivering customer-first solutions using public cloud.
• Excellent knowledge of cloud vendor best practice and frameworks.
• In-depth and varied practical experience in defining and leading a range of cloud transformations or migrations to public cloud and associated hybrid computing models.
• Experience in running public cloud vendor discovery and solution assessment programmes.
• Experience in defining SaaS and PaaS solutions, roadmaps and enterprise architectures for enterprise applications and integrations.
• Experience in creating high-level design and architecture documentation across a range of public cloud platforms. Experience of defining and developing costed cloud migration business cases and justifications.
• At least one current public cloud architect or technical certification.
• A “can-do” professional attitude that seizes the initiative and achieves successful outcomes.

• Employee recognition in the form of Excellence Awards and CallOut which are awarded by your peers. Engagement is incredibly important with local engagement teams driving our engagement events! 
• Great Place to Work award winners - United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Ireland, Spain and India
• Private healthcare cover
• Life Assurance
• Employer contributed pension scheme
• Employee discount scheme
• Pathways career development quarterly process