Lead Consultant - Cloud & Engineering
Zühlke Group3 days ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Advise clients on complex cloud, technology, and engineering challenges and connect technology decisions to business value.
- Lead discovery and design sessions, technical workshops, architecture reviews, proof-of-concept projects, and technology evaluations.
- Shape cloud transformation, optimization, and migration visions and guide delivery programmes toward incremental value.
- Provide technical leadership to cross-functional teams delivering and prototyping platforms, services, and products.
- Define and evaluate functional and non-functional requirements covering performance, capacity, scalability, availability, security, manageability, sustainability, and operations.
- Make pragmatic technology decisions, communicate trade-offs, and explain technical solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Support engineering effectiveness, delivery practices, automation, DevSecOps, and Infrastructure as Code improvements.
- Provide guidance on privacy, information security, resilience, responsible AI, and regulatory considerations.
- Manage and mentor colleagues through coaching, feedback, career support, and technical leadership development.
Requirements
- Experience as a Lead Cloud Architect, Technical Architect, or Engineering Leader across multiple programmes and projects.
- Strong experience designing and delivering solutions with modern cloud technologies and engineering practices.
- Experience working across complex, distributed, or changing technology environments.
- Understanding of how software, platforms, data, and AI capabilities work together to deliver business value.
- Strong software and engineering judgment across applications, platforms, infrastructure, data, and cloud services.
- Experience contributing practically through prototyping, technical problem-solving, or hands-on guidance with delivery teams.
- Experience in fast-paced, Agile, delivery-oriented environments with a focus on quality and demonstrable results.
- Experience guiding, mentoring, and developing colleagues through feedback, coaching, and career support.
- Strong communication, decision-making, adaptability, and ability to explain complex technical choices and their value.
- Consulting, presales, proposal, or bid-management experience is preferred or differentiating.
Benefits
- Flexible working hours and the possibility of working from home in a safe and healthy workplace.
- Eligibility for a company profit-share scheme.
- Global and diverse community spanning 16 offices, with annual team camps, year-end parties, and local festivities.
- Investment in employee development and opportunities to build technical, consulting, and leadership skills.
- Applications should include a CV and cover letter in English.
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Zühlke Group
Zühlke Group provides technology consulting, product engineering, and digital solutions for enterprises, especially in regulated sectors such as healthcare and finance. It builds custom software, connected devices, and data-driven services, and supports clients from strategy through implementation and operations. Founded in Switzerland in 1968 and headquartered in Schlieren, Zurich, the firm is partner-owned, operates across Europe and Asia, and also invests in startups via Zühlke Ventures.