Practice Lead Private Cloud & Broadcom Technologies

Location: UK - Hatfield UK - London Job-ID: 218703 Contract type: Standard Business Unit: IT Consulting

Practice Lead Private Cloud & Broadcom Technologies

Life on the team
Are you ready to shape the future of Private Cloud at Computacenter Were looking for a Practice Lead to take a pivotal role in growing our Private Cloud capability with a strong focus on Broadcom and VMware technologies.
This is a high-impact leadership opportunity within our Consultancy Practice combining people leadership customer advisory proposition development and delivery governance. As a Player/Manager youll spend around 60% of your time leading and developing the team and 40% supporting consultancy pre-sales and delivery assurance.
Youll be the figurehead for our Private Cloud practice: building capability influencing strategy supporting major customer opportunities and helping organisations modernise their infrastructure platforms. If you combine strong technical credibility with commercial thinking and a passion for developing people this is a chance to make a real difference.

What youll do

• Lead coach and develop our Private Cloud consulting team supporting recruitment performance engagement capability growth and succession planning.
• Create a high-performing culture where consultants and architects are empowered to deliver quality innovation and customer impact.
• Own practice performance through effective forecasting resource planning utilisation management and contribution to profitable growth.
• Build strong relationships with partners Solution Leaders Sales Marketing and technical stakeholders to shape compelling Private Cloud and Broadcom-aligned propositions.
• Act as a senior advisor to customers on data centre modernisation private cloud operating models platform rationalisation and transformation roadmaps.
• Develop trusted relationships with senior internal and customer stakeholders including executive and C-level audiences.
• Lead and govern complex pre-sales and delivery assurance activity for major transformation opportunities including ITTs RFIs and RFPs.
• Collaborate across Consultancy & Engineering Technical Solutions Sales Delivery and Operations to define scalable solutions and support wider organisational growth.
• Use social media and other communication channels to raise the profile of Computacenter the Consultancy Practice and your own thought leadership.

What youll need

• Extensive experience in IT consultancy with a strong understanding of consultancy and project delivery methodologies.
• Proven people leadership experience including developing scaling and inspiring consulting or architecture teams.
• A strong understanding of IT infrastructure private cloud architecture and hybrid cloud operating models in complex enterprise environments.
• Excellent technical knowledge of Broadcom and VMware private cloud technologies including VMware Cloud Foundation vSphere vSAN NSX and associated management automation and security capabilities.
• The ability to engage confidently with senior customers business decision-makers technical teams and C-level stakeholders.
• Experience applying governance and assurance processes to manage risk across pre-sales and in-flight delivery.
• Experience creating virtual teams and bringing together expertise from across Professional Services and Group functions.
• A proactive approach to building relationships with customers vendors partners and internal stakeholders.
• Strong experience in stakeholder management executive engagement and influencing senior leaders.
• Experience shaping requirements building solutions and developing cost models with appropriate governance.
• A track record of shaping leading and commercialising innovative services that strengthen market differentiation and customer value.

Why join us
At Computacenter youll work with talented people leading technologies and customers who trust us to help them transform. Youll have the opportunity to influence the direction of a growing practice shape meaningful customer outcomes and develop a team that plays a key role in our future success.

About us

Computacenter is a leading independent provider of IT infrastructure services with about 21000 employees worldwide. We work at the heart of digitisation advising organisations on IT strategy implementing the most appropriate technology and managing our customers infrastructures.

We offer a friendly open working environment without too much fuss about hierarchy. We are looking for professionals with diverse competencies personalities and strengths who want to live our shared value of teamwork and performance.

Interested in joining a company with a strong sense of community

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