Head of Google Cloud Modernisation

About Ancoris

Ancoris is an award-winning Cloud Services Provider which helps customers innovate and transform through the use of Google Cloud Platform (GCP). We have extensive expertise in Google Cloud technologies, and deliver our magic through Data and AI, as well as modernisation of applications and workspaces.

We are on a journey to becoming the most innovative partner in the Google ecosystem, so this is the right time for you to join a smart and friendly team, but with great ambition to succeed. We celebrate diversity, nurture talent from within and do the right thing for our customers. Take a look at our values and come join us.

About the role:

This is a highly critical role, part of the management team, and you will be responsible for creating and maintaining the strategy, service offerings, customer interactions as well as solution architecture across our GCP Application and Infrastructure modernisation services. You will manage and own the success (and the number!) of the GCP modernisation practice.

You will be the face of our modernisation capabilities, internally as well as externally, and should be able to articulate our proposition to the different audiences ensuring we’re the right partner for them. This will happen both with our customers and prospects as well as Google. You will be working in a growth environment which will provide enormous potential for personal growth in the next few years. We are also a small and friendly team, no politics or corporate nonsense, so you should have some fun along the way too.

Key responsibilities:

• You will be responsible for leading the development of Ancoris capability within the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure and modernisation market.
• You will build a deep and productive relationship with Google (along other Cloud tool vendors) to help develop our reputation as the most trusted and innovative partner in the ecosystem.
• You will build our core services offerings for GCP migration and modernisation services as well as the development of recurring managed services offerings.
• You will develop our product/offering strategy and customer engagement model for GCP engagements.
• You will build an integrated service model for Ancoris GCP services, covering all stages of customer lifecycle from opportunity identification through to post deployment managed service
• You will provide oversight to all modernisation projects ensuring customer success and gather feedback to iterate on your product strategy.
• You will work with the sales team to identify, win and execute on GCP migration and modernisation opportunities
• You will work closely with the data and application teams to identify opportunities as well as offerings that span more than one practice.

Desired skills and competencies

• BSc/BA degree or equivalent, preferably in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or Business related discipline
• More than 5 years track record of senior roles in architecture, sales support, and delivery success in a growing organisation, either in professional services, consulting, product development, or corporate IT.
• You are an experienced leader, capable of attracting the best talent to build a highly capable public cloud services team.
• You love talking to customers and have the passion and drive to inspire them to work with you and your team. You have excellent communication skills (oral and written). Some public speaking is required as part of the role.
• You are passionate about public cloud services, with a demonstrated ability to architect cloud solutions based on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure.
• You have solid understanding and experience of commercial bids, application architecture, IT Infrastructure, IT Service Management and security.
• You are naturally organised and detail-oriented and strive to deliver excellence to customers.
• You have the ability to interact with senior stakeholders to influence and drive IT projects and manage project scope and budget.
• You have a strong technical grounding and are up to date with the state of the art in public cloud, virtualisation and technologies such as Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure, VMWare, Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, Hybrid cloud etc.

Location

Hybrid working with office based in Bracknell, Berkshire.

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