Client Advisory & Capability Building
- Act as a trusted advisor to CIO, CTO and platform leadership teams on cloud platform transformation.
- Lead architecture workshops and strategic engagements with senior stakeholders.
- Translate business ambitions for data, AI and digital innovation into scalable cloud architectures.
- Establish Cloud Engineering Centres of Excellence (CoE) within client organisations.
- Define operating models, engineering practices and reusable platform components.
- Support pre-sales activities including proposals, client pitches and solution shaping, bringing technical leadership into the sales cycle.
- Identify and develop opportunities within client accounts to expand cloud and platform engagements.
Cloud Platform Strategy & Architecture
- Lead large-scale cloud modernisation programmes, transforming legacy infrastructure into automated cloud-native platforms.
- Define enterprise cloud platform strategies supporting Data, AI and digital product develop
- Design target-state architectures enabling scalable, secure and automated infrastructure across cloud environments.
- Define policy-as-code frameworks and automated governance models ensuring security, compliance and cost optimisation.
- Embed resilience, observability and disaster recovery into enterprise platform design
- Ensure cloud environments align with Well-Architected Framework principles.
- Design modular infrastructure frameworks and reusable blueprints enabling consistent and scalable deployments.
- Identify technical debt and operational bottlenecks and design modernised infrastructure architectures to support long-term scalability.
- Enable development, data and AI teams to deploy platforms and workloads independently at scale.
- Lead the adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and platform engineering practices across client organisations.
- Define and implement automated CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and platform provisioning
Internal Capability & Thought Leadership
- Contribute to the development of Valcon’s Cloud and Platform Engineering capability, shaping propositions, standards and go-to-market offerings.
- Mentor and support the development of engineering and architecture talent across the organisation.
- Act as a leading voice within Valcon and externally, evangelising cloud as a business value driver through thought leadership, client engagement and industry presence.
