Presales Team Lead

What you'll be doing::

You will play a crucial role in contributing to and overseeing the team responsible for architectural design of cloud solutions, ensuring nothing gets in their way in delivering their best work.

Objectives:

• Manage and lead a team of cloud solutions architects, providing guidance as an escalation point, providing support, removing blockers, and maximising their potential.
• Cultivating a positive team environment that produces exceptional work.
• Tracking and managing team performance, provide constructive feedback through one-to-one sessions, absence planning, mapping development and learning objectives, and organising associated training.
• Effectively manage team resource, scheduling, and prioritise work requests.
• Assigning and monitoring the delivery of pre-sales pricing and post-sale design work.
• Acting as a quality gate in the approval of completed proposals and contracts.
• Acting as intermediary between the team and stakeholders within the business such as Sales, Project Management and Build.
• Develop structured reporting to track team performance, availability, and workload progress.
• Engage in Design work and RFPs between other responsibilities.

We want to hear from you if you::

• Have a Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field would be beneficial, but not a requirement.
• Have solid understanding of cloud computing concepts, architectures, and services, including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
• Have proven experience in a managerial and/or pre-sales role, leading a team of technical professionals.
• Possess excellent people management, leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively collaborate with diverse stakeholders.
• Have strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities, with a focus on delivering team objectives to the best of your ability.
• Are calm under pressure and able to mediate competing priorities and stakeholders.

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What's in it for me?:

• Supported training and development - 12 training days per year
• Holiday Trading Scheme - buy or sell part of your annual leave allowance
• Flexible and Hybrid working (3 days office/2 days home)
• Day off for your birthday
• Enhanced paternity, maternity and adoption leave
• Flexible Benefits scheme

Who you'll be doing it for::

• We have over 25 years expertise in data centre and cloud services
• Over 600 skilled professionals and turnover over £127m
• Our HQ is in Glasgow and offices across the UK.
• We provide critical services across all public and private sectors

What to do next::

Please click apply if you like the sound of this. If you do not have an up to date CV or want to have a chat about the role first please feel free to contact me on careers@iomart.com

We’re an equal opportunities employer and want our vacancies to be available to all, so if you need us to make any reasonable adjustments during the process then just let us know.