Senior Cloud & AI Delivery Leader

Company: Stratton HR
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Location: London
Job Description:

Location: Hybrid working. Travel required to Farringdon (Central London) and client sites. This is expected to be approximately two to three times per week on average.

About Capacitas

Founded in 2002 and based in London, Capacitas is the only consulting firm specialising exclusively in generating value from cloud and AI platforms, through a performance and efficiency based approach to technology optimisation. Our aspiration is to be the global authority in partnering with tech-enabled ambitious companies, and their investors, to remove the technology barriers to growth and win as quickly as possible.

How do we do this?

  • We deliver a relentless focus on our customer’s strategic goals. Delivering the complex transformations that help tech-enabled organisations win and achieve best-practice cloud and AI outcomes as quickly as possible.
  • We are obsessed about efficient growth and have developed a framework and methodologies to identify and remove the causes of inefficiencies for organisations across multiple sectors.

Why should you want to be a part of it?

We are embedded with our customers every day tackling the complex and cutting-edge problems relating to cloud and AI platforms – driving change, delivering results and building relationships of trust. We are working with and enabling the fastest growing, game-changing, ambitious companies.

About the Role

As a senior member of our delivery team, you will take a strategic lead on client engagements, almost always in a customer-facing role, ensuring that our cloud and AI services deliver measurable business value.

Typical responsibilities include:

  • Partnering with our client stakeholders to understand their strategic requirements and road-mapping the path to cloud and AI value with actionable, business-focussed recommendations. Then getting your hands dirty to lead your junior team to deliver those high-quality, timely outcomes for the client
  • Designing assurance strategies and plans that align with client objectives and long-term business outcomes
  • Performing forecasting and planning activities to support scalable, efficient IT operations
  • Proactively monitoring systems to identify strategic risks and opportunities for optimisation
  • Building on your relationship within the client to identify and develop further opportunities for cloud and AI value creation with a relentless focus on the client’s strategic vision and outcomes
  • Pre-sales support to build out solutions for new customers or engagements in line with your live experience in the field
  • Supporting to extend, automate and improve our service portfolio based on your live experience in the field

Candidate Requirements:

  • Experience working with complex, large-scale, or fast-growing clients and delivering structured technology/cloud/AI advice and mapping these back to business outcomes.
  • Strong strategic planning and prioritisation, particularly in the area of Cloud and AI, translating client objectives into actionable roadmaps.
  • Track record of building trusted client relationships, influencing stakeholders through insight and data-driven recommendations.
  • Proven experience leading teams, projects, and budgets, with accountability for delivery and outcomes.
  • Skilled in predictive analysis, capacity planning, and risk assessment to guide business and cloud decisions.
  • Highly data-driven and analytical, especially where using infrastructure data to optimise technology performance and efficiency.
  • Proactive self-starter, taking ownership of problems end-to-end and delivering solutions.
  • Confident, client-facing communicator, able to explain complex cloud/AI cost, performance, and risk trade-offs.
  • Comfortable managing multiple initiatives across cloud and AI environments.
  • Innovative and flexible, identifying opportunities and adapting recommendations as priorities change.
  • Assertive and commercially minded, challenging clients on spend, architecture, and operating models when needed.
  • Strong conceptual thinker, understanding cloud/AI architectures, financial drivers, and business outcomes as a connected system.
  • Collaborative and egalitarian, working effectively with engineering, finance, and client teams to deliver results.

To succeed in this senior role at Capacitas, candidates must demonstrate a combination of strategic leadership, technical expertise, client influence, and innovation.

Deliver Great Work

  • Provides strategic leadership, leading leaders and influencing adoption of change across teams and clients.
  • Accountable for delivery of major programs, ensuring outcomes meet client objectives and internal quality standards.

Develop Our Business

  • Supports the Client Director in the suspecting and prospecting stages of the sales cycle, identifying opportunities and nurturing strategic relationships.
  • Strategise delivery of value by combining expert business and technical knowledge, communicating Capacitas’ value proposition clearly to internal and external stakeholders.
  • Ensures multiple teams adhere to documented processes and confidently represents Capacitas’ intellectual property internally and externally.
  • Creates operationally vital IP, leveraging deep business and technical understanding to improve processes and drive scalable client solutions.

Candidates must have right to work in the UK

Thank you for your interest in Capacitas.

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Posted: May 30th, 2026