Principal/Lead Consultant - Cloud & Engineering

Salary: £51,000 - 91,000 per year

Requirements:

• Experience as a Principal or Lead Cloud Architect, Technical Architect, or Engineering Leader across multiple programmes and projects.
• Strong experience designing and delivering solutions using 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, with the ability to work across applications, platforms, infrastructure, data, and cloud services.
• Experience contributing practically with delivery teams through prototyping, technical problem-solving, or hands-on guidance.
• Experience in fast-paced, Agile, delivery-oriented environments, with an emphasis on quality and a show by doing approach.
• Experience guiding, mentoring, and developing colleagues through feedback, coaching, and career support.
• Confident decision-making and the ability to explain technical choices, trade-offs, and implications.
• Ability to articulate complex technical solutions and their value to technical and non-technical audiences.
• An open, proactive, and adaptable approach, responding constructively to change and learning through experience.
• A clear understanding of the business value of your work and a focus on delivering that value transparently.
• Experience in consulting, presales activities, proposals, or bid management is a differentiator.

Responsibilities:

• Act as a trusted advisor, helping clients understand and address complex cloud, technology, and engineering challenges.
• Help clients identify how cloud, data, and AI capabilities can support business strategy and improve products, services, and operations.
• Lead discovery and design sessions, technical workshops, architecture reviews, proof-of-concept projects, and evaluations of technologies and vendors.
• Create a compelling vision for clients technology transformation, cloud optimisation, and migration journeys.
• Guide and de-risk programmes and projects, promoting iterative delivery and incremental value.
• Provide technical leadership to cross-functional teams delivering and prototyping platforms, services, and products across diverse technology environments.
• Help stakeholders define functional and non-functional requirements, including performance, capacity, scalability, availability, security, manageability, sustainability, and operational needs.
• Make pragmatic technology decisions and explain their trade-offs and value to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Support teams in improving engineering effectiveness, delivery practices, automation, DevSecOps, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Collaborate with software engineering, platform engineering, data, AI, security, operations, product, delivery, and finance teams.
• Guide teams on privacy, information security, resilience, responsible AI, and regulatory considerations.
• Apply expertise across applications, platforms, infrastructure, data, integration, identity, and observability.
• Keep current with developments in cloud, data engineering, analytics, Generative AI, foundation models, and responsible AI practices.
• Manage and mentor colleagues, supporting their technical, consulting, and leadership development through coaching, feedback, and career support.

Technologies:

• AI
• Architect
• Cloud
• DevSecOps
• Support
• Security
• DevOps
• Excel

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Founded in Switzerland in 1968 and owned by our partners, we operate across Europe and Asia as a global transformation partner, bringing engineering and innovation to client challenges. Our multidisciplinary teams work in technology strategy and business innovation, digital solutions and applications, and device and systems engineering, including complex, regulated sectors such as health and finance. In this full-time Principal or Lead Consultant for Cloud & Engineering role in Manchester, you will provide senior technical and engineering leadership across complex client engagements, shaping and delivering practical cloud adoption, optimisation, and migration strategies. We offer flexible working hours, the possibility of working from home, a profit-share scheme, a global and inclusive community across 16 offices, and investment in professional development. Please submit application documents in English. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

last updated 39 week of 2026