EMEA Cloud Engineering Director

Job Description

Cloud Engineer Director Join the Access Family and see how we make software ideas become a reality!Our core value of Love Work, Love Life, Be You has been central to our success and so were looking for people to join us who share our passion for making things better every day and help us continue to grow. We are the number one UK headquartered software provider in the UK and are forecasted to grow to a global population of over 12,000 employees by 2026. What are we all aboutAt Access, we love software and how technology never stays the same. Its this obsession that drives us to work closely across sectors to understand the business needs of our customers - from the Hospitality sector, to Manufacturing industry, to Not for Profitsto Construction, and many more. Were passionate about helping our customers stay one step ahead of the challenges facing their industry and business, currently helping over 60,000 customers to have the freedom to do more. About you:The EMEA Cloud Engineering Director will be responsible for the global platform in tandem with their APAC Counterpart, while partnering with the regional boards to drive strategic and commercial direction.Cloud Engineering is a division within Access and provides hosting infrastructure for the groups software products. In addition, it also sells IaaS and MSP services and generates c. £40M of revenue from these activities alone. The division is highly technologyfocused and currently employs 220+ engineers that support an estate that spans 14 global datacenters, 8,000 virtual machines, and 15 petabytes of data. Services levels are critical as these systems underpin group revenues of £800M and services delivered intoHealth and Social Care, Legal and HR & Payroll, among others.Day-to-day, you will:• Reporting to the Senior Director for Cloud Engineering, this individual is the regional leader and part of the global management team for Cloud Engineering. • Ensuring a collaborative and partnership approach to drive success to the region and global operations. Access will scale to be a £2Bn software vendor in the next 5 years which will equate to more than 5x in compute and storage so need expert hosting to matchthat, along with the creativity and commercial awareness to make sure the hosted systems are on the right platforms at the right cost.• Present to the C-Level and Board on ROI and strategic planning as Access scale out its cloud capabilities, while being a strategic partner to the regional boards to deliver their vision and ensure commercial focus on cost of sale and hosting is maintainedand optimised.• Full accountability for the divisional P&L including operations, architecture, services delivery and automation teams.• Cloud + Data Centre Infrastructure Management: Manage the design, deployment, and maintenance of cloud + local data centre infrastructure, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security of services.• Performance Monitoring and Optimization• Cost Optimization• Security and Compliance• Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity• Incident and Problem Management• Capacity Planning• DevOps Integration• Team Leadership and Development• Cloud Governance• Reporting and Analytics• Stakeholder CollaborationYour skills and experiences might also include: • Experience leading a sophisticated technology organisation within a global environment. • Knowledge of Software / SaaS as well as infrastructure.• Preferably comes from an engineering background with a track record of managing large operational teams but also has deep understanding of P&L management and can build and communicate a 5-year strategic plan.• Thought leader in managed hosting and cloud services with the ability to drive change to create new organisational capabilities.• Experience in developing products and services within the IaaS/MSP and go to market strategies.• Demonstrable ability to see outside of the box and maintain a big picture view at all times.• Exposure to acquiring businesses, performing due diligence and technical M&A integration is a plus.• Proven leadership skills with the ability to influence at all levels including experience of working at Board or Investor level.• Collaborative methodology• Ability to defuse tense situations and put customer view point forwards• Results driven - accountable, able to balance strategic thinking with attention to detail and operational end-to-end delivery, problem solving, prepared to go over & above when required.• Have the ability to measure your success through the use of key performance indicators and scorecards.• Excellent communication skills. You are a confident, clear, and warm communicator with a flexible and constructive approach to customers, cross-functional teams, and executive leadership.• Leading and developing a team, to create a compelling long-term vision, strategy, and detailed roadmap.• Must be able to attract top talent, build apprenticeship programmes and develop strong career development pathways for top talent.• Self-motivated and self-directed.What does Access offer youWe are a growing software company, and we deliver on what we say we do! We take the development of our people very seriously and we will work with you to carve out your success plan and an opportunity to accelerate your career and make a real difference.On top of a competitive salary, our standard 25 days holiday (which goes up the longer youre with us), and a matched pension scheme youll also be able to choose from a range of benefits to suit you. We pride ourselves on being an organisation that gives backso youll also have a charity day you can take to support something that matters to you.