Head of Engineering & Delivery

Accountabilities • Define the overall technology strategy, architectural standards, and innovation roadmap across cloud, data engineering, AI, and agentic AI initiatives.

• Lead the development and productization of proprietary technology assets, reusable frameworks, solution patterns, and delivery methodologies.

• Establish a strong technical presence in the market through industry events, thought leadership, whitepapers, and relationships across the cloud ecosystem.

• Scale and govern a multi-geographic professional services delivery organization spanning North America, LATAM, and EMEA.

• Establish delivery governance, quality gates, RAID management, project health reviews, and other mechanisms that support predictable, high-quality outcomes.

• Serve as an executive delivery sponsor for strategic enterprise accounts and help resolve complex technical or operational challenges.

• Partner with sales leadership on major enterprise opportunities, shaping architectures, scopes of work, technical proposals, and executive presentations.

• Develop strong relationships with cloud ecosystem leaders and field teams to support joint go-to-market and co-selling opportunities.

• Identify expansion opportunities within existing accounts, connecting delivery insights to additional cloud, AI, modernization, and managed-service engagements.

• Oversee professional services performance, including utilization, gross margin, rate-card management, delivery risk, and broader operational metrics.

• Translate complex technical decisions into clear business outcomes for C-suite stakeholders and act as a trusted executive advisor.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience leading complex technology programs, including at least 7 years in an engineering leadership role within professional services, systems integration, cloud consulting, or a comparable environment.

• Deep hands-on experience and architectural expertise with Google Cloud Platform, modern data platforms, enterprise AI, and generative or agentic AI implementations.

• Demonstrated ownership of professional services operations and financial performance, including revenue, utilization, gross margin, rate cards, and delivery risk.

• Proven experience working within hyperscaler partner ecosystems, including co-selling with cloud field organizations and leveraging partner programs or incentives.

• Direct experience building and leading distributed delivery organizations across onshore, nearshore, and offshore locations.

• Strong executive presence with the ability to advise CTOs, CIOs, CDOs, and other senior stakeholders and connect technical trade-offs to business objectives.

• Strong strategic, operational, and commercial judgment, with the ability to balance innovation, delivery quality, client outcomes, and financial performance.

• Excellent communication, relationship-building, negotiation, and presentation skills.

• Preferred: Previous leadership experience with Google Cloud, a major Google Cloud Partner, or an enterprise systems integrator.

• Preferred: Active Google Cloud certifications such as Professional Cloud Architect, Professional Data Engineer, or AI/ML Specialist.

• Preferred: Experience working with private-equity-backed organizations, including governance, reporting, and value-creation initiatives.

Benefits

• Executive-level opportunity with broad ownership across engineering strategy, global delivery, and go-to-market activities.

• Remote work environment with collaboration across North America, LATAM, and EMEA.

• Opportunity to work on complex enterprise cloud, data, AI, and agentic AI initiatives.

• Exposure to senior enterprise stakeholders and strategic cloud ecosystem relationships.

• Opportunity to influence proprietary technology assets, reusable frameworks, delivery standards, and technical innovation.

• Culture emphasizing technical expertise, candid communication, client trust, empathy, and practical problem-solving.

• High-growth environment offering significant scope to shape organizational scale, delivery capabilities, and market impact.

• The source job description does not specify a salary range or detailed employee benefits package.

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