Cloud Technology Strategist

Sopra Steria Limited
Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom
6 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Compensation
£ 65K

Job location

Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Azure
Cloud Computing
DevOps
Cloud Services

Job description

Do you have a passion for building trusted relationships and guiding clients through transformative cloud journeys?

We're looking for a versatile Cloud Technology Strategist to join our team and act as the strategic advisor to our clients, owning engagement from bid stage through to successful delivery. You'll be the voice of the client within our organisation, ensuring solutions align with their business objectives and delivering value at every step. This is a role for someone who thrives on influencing outcomes, shaping cloud solutions, and being the go-to person clients trust during pre-sales and beyond.

We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities.

What you'll be doing:

  • Acting as the primary client partner throughout the lifecycle, from pre-sales and bid support to delivery.
  • Building deep, trusted relationships with customers and understanding their strategic priorities.
  • Owning technical pre-sales activities, shaping solution strategy, competitive positioning and customer success.
  • Driving proposal development, building solution narratives, and contributing to winning bids.
  • Translating business needs into compelling cloud solution designs that align with client objectives.
  • Acting as a trusted advisor, guiding clients through complex cloud transformation journeys.
  • Identifying sales opportunities within cloud offerings and contributing to product development.

What you'll bring:

  • Hands-on experience positioning and articulating cloud solutions across Azure, AWS or GCP, with the confidence to guide clients through strategic decision making.
  • Extensive experience leading client engagement, pre-sales conversations, and early-stage solution shaping within cloud transformation programmes.
  • A proven ability to build trusted, long-term client relationships and influence senior stakeholders during complex pre-sales cycles.
  • A solid understanding of cloud architectures, security considerations, DevOps practices and how these translate into compelling value propositions for clients.
  • Experience acting as an account lead or account manager on large, complex client accounts, maintaining trusted relationships while actively identifying and supporting opportunities to grow those accounts.

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time Permanent Location: UK Wide Security Clearance Level: SC Internal Recruiter: Annecia Salary: dependent on experience. Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund.

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

With a long history of delivering transformation, we've developed a market-leading partnership ecosystem to provide business services of the future and shape valuable, positive outcomes for communities. We empower our clients by providing innovative solutions and commercial models that help them meet their business needs, drive operational efficiencies, and deliver impactful value creation. We remain committed to values of excellence, empathy and respect to produce transformative outcomes in business processing - creating value for all.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience positioning and articulating cloud solutions across Azure, AWS or GCP, with the confidence to guide clients through strategic decision making.
  • Extensive experience leading client engagement, pre-sales conversations, and early-stage solution shaping within cloud transformation programmes.
  • A proven ability to build trusted, long-term client relationships and influence senior stakeholders during complex pre-sales cycles.
  • A solid understanding of cloud architectures, security considerations, DevOps practices and how these translate into compelling value propositions for clients.
  • Experience acting as an account lead or account manager on large, complex client accounts, maintaining trusted relationships while actively identifying and supporting opportunities to grow those accounts.

Benefits & conditions

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

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