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Cloud Technology Strategist
full-timeUnited Kingdom

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Location

United Kingdom

Type

full-time

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About this role

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.
    Leading pre‑sales conversations to shape cloud technology strategies and influence decision‑making.
  •      Driving proposal development, building solution narratives, and contributing to winning bids.
  •      Translating business needs into compelling cloud solution designs that align with client objectives.
  •      Coordinating with project managers and technical teams to ensure seamless handover and execution while maintaining client confidence.
  •      Providing clear communication, progress updates, and proactive risk management to clients.
  •     Representing the client internally and advocating for their success.

What you’ll bring:

  •      Strong experience in client engagement and pre‑sales activities within cloud transformation programmes.
  •      Ability to act as a trusted advisor and influence stakeholders at all levels.
  •      Experience shaping and positioning cloud solutions across Azure, AWS or GCP environments.
  •      Cloud Foundation Certifications (AWS or Azure).
  •       Knowledge of cloud architectures, DevOps practices and security.

It would be great if you had:

  •      Exposure to cloud cost optimisation tools and practices such as AWS Cost Explorer or Azure Cost Management.

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!

Referral Bonus - £1,500

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.

Other facts

Tech stack
Client Engagement,Pre-Sales Activities,Cloud Transformation,Trusted Advisor,Stakeholder Influence,Cloud Solutions,Azure,AWS,GCP,Cloud Foundation Certifications,Cloud Architectures,DevOps Practices,Security,Cloud Cost Optimisation

About Sopra Steria

Sopra Steria Group is an information technology and services company

Team size: 10,001+ employees
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Industry: Information Technology & Services

What you'll do

  • Act as the primary client partner throughout the lifecycle, from pre-sales and bid support to delivery. Build deep, trusted relationships with customers and understand their strategic priorities.

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What does a Cloud Technology Strategist do at Sopra Steria?

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