Practice Manager - Cloud & Applications

Computacenter Holding GmbH; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology provider in the UK is seeking a Cloud & Applications Lead to shape strategy and ensure delivery excellence. This role involves leading a technical community, managing P&L, and collaborating with major tech partners and enterprise clients. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Azure, AWS, and GCP, proven experience leading teams, and excellent stakeholder management skills. This is a hybrid role offering impactful opportunities within a supportive environment at a respected firm.

Benefits

Inclusive culture

Equal opportunity employer

Support for disabled applicants

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading technical teams in cloud or application practices.
• Track record of growing cloud/app practices and supporting sales.
• Ability to influence C-suite and technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the Cloud & Applications practice strategy.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a technical community.
• Oversee delivery quality and compliance with standards.

Skills

Technical leadership across Azure

Expertise in cloud-native architecture

Experience in DevOps and automation

Financial acumen with P&L ownership

Strong communication skills

Stakeholder management

Job description

Location: UK - London, UK - Edinburgh, UK - Hatfield, UK - Manchester, UK - Milton Keynes, UK - Nottingham, UK - Reading | Job-ID: 216416 | Contract type: Standard | Business Unit: IT Consulting

Life on the team

Location: Flexible / Hybrid

Join a dynamic, fast-growing Cloud & Applications practice at the heart of Computacenter’s customer transformation strategy. You’ll lead a high-performing community of consultants, architects, and specialists delivering cutting-edge cloud and application solutions across Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, private cloud, and modern application platforms.

This is a role for someone who thrives on shaping strategy, developing people, influencing propositions, and ensuring delivery excellence. You’ll collaborate with major technology partners and enterprise customers, drive innovation, and help accelerate our cloud and application services portfolio. If you’re passionate about building capability and delivering outstanding customer outcomes, you’ll find this the ideal place to make a meaningful impact.

What you’ll do

• Define and execute the Cloud & Applications practice strategy, enhancing our service offerings and delivery frameworks across both nearshore and offshore teams.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a technical community through recruitment, skills development, certification, and resource planning.
• Support sales teams as a senior SME—shaping opportunities, attending customer meetings, and contributing to winning bids.
• Oversee delivery quality across all engagements, ensuring compliance with methodologies, governance, and security standards.
• Sponsor major projects to manage risk and ensure successful business outcomes.
• Manage full P&L for the practice including budgeting, forecasting, revenue, margin, and utilisation.
• Strengthen relationships with key technology partners and influence joint go-to-market initiatives.

What you’ll need

• Strong technical leadership across Azure, AWS, and GCP, with expertise in cloud-native architecture, modernisation, DevOps, automation, and containerisation.
• Proven experience leading and growing technical teams within cloud and/or application practices.
• A track record in growing cloud/application practices and supporting sales cycles.
• Strong financial acumen with experience owning P&L and driving commercial performance.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence internal stakeholders and engage confidently with both C-suite and technical audiences.
• Ability to work strategically while remaining hands‑on when needed, with a customer‑centric, proactive, and innovative mindset.

If you’re ready to lead, innovate, and shape the future of cloud and application services at scale, we’d love to hear from you - apply today and help us drive what’s next.

About us

We are a leading independent technology and services provider, trusted by large corporate and public sector organisations. We are a responsible business that believes in winning together for our people and our planet. We help our customers to source, transform and manage their technology infrastructure to deliver digital transformation, enabling people and their business.

Our business may be about technology, but first of all it’s about people

With over 20,000 people across 22 countries, we are proud of our inclusive culture - where everyone can thrive, feel valued, and truly belong.

As an equal opportunities employer, we’re committed to ensuring fair and equal access to opportunities for all. Your application will be considered on its merits, regardless of your age, disability, ethnicity, gender identity, or any other characteristics protected by law. What matters most to us is that you share our vision and values, and bring the experience and skills we’re looking for.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We welcome applications from disabled people and accept applications in alternative formats. We also guarantee to interview applicants who have a disability.

If you share our values and want to make a meaningful impact in a supportive, forward-thinking environment - we’d love to hear from you!