Leiter Engineering

We are seeking a strategic, customer-obsessed Head of Engineering to lead Ankercloud’s cloud engineering and consulting practice. This role is responsible for driving technical delivery excellence, building scalable consulting capabilities, and ensuring successful outcomes for our customers.

The ideal candidate is a senior technology leader with deep cloud expertise and a strong consulting mindset, someone who can engage confidently with customers, build high-performing delivery teams, and align technical execution with business value.

This role is not focused on building in-house software products, but on designing and delivering robust cloud solutions that enable customer success.

Technical & Practice Leadership

• Define and drive Ankercloud’s cloud engineering and delivery strategy aligned with business objectives and customer needs.
• Establish and enforce best practices for infrastructure and application architecture, security, governance, automation, and cost optimization.
• Own technical standards including reference architectures, migration patterns, modernization approaches, and operational models.
• Ensure security, compliance, reliability, and scalability are embedded across all customer solutions.
• Ensure emerging cloud and AI-enabled technologies are leveraged to maintain competitiveness while ensuring speed and quality.

Consulting, Delivery & Customer Outcomes

• Oversee end-to-end technical delivery across customer engagements, from discovery and architecture design to implementation and handover.
• Build a strong culture of technical consulting, participating in architecture reviews, roadmap discussions, and executive-level engagements.
• Drive a culture of customer obsession, accountability, and outcome-oriented delivery.
• Partner closely with Customer Success to ensure long-term value realization, customer satisfaction, and repeat business.
• Define and track delivery KPIs, including customer satisfaction, delivery quality, predictability, and risk management.

Sales & Pre-Sales Collaboration

• Partner with Sales and Business teams on pre-sales solutioning, technical proposals, and RFP responses.
• Ensure technical commitments made during sales cycles are realistic, scalable, and executable.
• Support the development of new service offerings, accelerators, and cloud solutions to drive practice growth.

Team, Leadership & Capability Building

• Build, scale, and lead a high-performing cloud engineering and consulting organization.
• Hire, develop, and retain top cloud engineers, architects, and technical leaders.
• Create clear career paths and capability frameworks for consulting and engineering roles.
• Mentor leaders to strengthen customer-facing skills, technical ownership, and delivery excellence.
• Implement fair, transparent, and growth-oriented performance management systems.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with Sales, Customer Success, Operations, and Leadership teams to align technical delivery with business priorities.
• Provide clear communication on delivery risks, timelines, and trade-offs to internal and external stakeholders.
• Contribute to overall company strategy, positioning Ankercloud as a trusted cloud transformation partner.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in cloud engineering, technology consulting, or enterprise delivery, with at least 5 years in senior leadership roles.
• Proven experience delivering large-scale cloud migration, modernization, or platform initiatives for enterprise customers.
• Strong expertise in cloud platforms such as AWS and GCP, including security, networking, and governance.
• Experience building and scaling consulting or delivery teams in einem dienstleistungsorientierten Umfeld.
• Nachweisliche Erfahrung in dem End-to-End-Anwendungsentwicklungslebenszyklus.
• Produktionserfahrung mit den neuesten GenAI-Tools für Code-Augmentierung, Vibe Coding sowie konforme und sichere Implementierungen moderner Technologien.
• Ausgezeichnete Fähigkeiten im Kundenkontakt, in der Kommunikation und im Stakeholder-Management.
• Ausgeprägte Fähigkeit, technische Exzellenz, Lieferqualität und wirtschaftliche Ergebnisse in Einklang zu bringen.

Wünschenswerte Qualifikationen

• Erfahrung in Beratungsunternehmen für Cloud- oder Anwendungsentwicklung, bei Systemintegratoren oder Managed-Services-Organisationen.
• Kenntnisse in Unternehmenssicherheit, Compliance und regulatorischen Anforderungen.
• Verständnis für KI-gestützte Cloud-Dienste und Automatisierung angewendet in Kundenumgebungen.
• Ausgeprägte analytische und datengesteuerte Herangehensweise bei der Bereitstellung und Entscheidungsfindung.

Kernkompetenzen

• Kundenorientierte Denkweise mit hohem Verantwortungsbewusstsein und Eigenverantwortung.
• Fähigkeit, technische Bereitstellung an Geschäfts- und Kundenergebnisse anzupassen.
• Fähigkeit, leistungsstarke Beratungs- und Ingenieurteams aufzubauen und zu fördern.
• Ausgeprägte Problemlösungs- und Entscheidungsfindungskompetenzen in komplexen Umgebungen.
• Kommunikation und Zusammenarbeit auf Führungsebene mit internen und externen Stakeholdern.
• Fähigkeit, wiederholbare, hochwertige Cloud-Bereitstellungspraktiken zu skalieren.

Technisches Verständnis

• Tiefgreifendes praktisches Verständnis von Cloud-Infrastruktur (AWS, GCP), hybriden Architekturen und Bereitstellungen im Unternehmensmaßstab.
• Praktisches Verständnis von KI- und Datendiensten als Teil moderner Cloud-Plattformen.
• Fundierte Kenntnisse in Cloud-Sicherheit, Identitätsmanagement, Netzwerk, Monitoring und Kostenoptimierung.
• Vertrautheit mit Cloud-nativen Mustern, Automatisierung und bewährten Betriebspraktiken.