About this role
Role Description
We are seeking an Associate Director, Professional Services to lead day-to-day operations across our Professional Services Delivery, Cloud Solutions, and Cloud Solutions Architecture functions. Reporting to the Director, Professional Services, this leader will be responsible for delivery quality, team performance, utilization, capacity, project profitability, and consistent execution across project-based and managed cloud services.
The Associate Director will lead and develop managers and technical leaders while coordinating priorities across Professional Services, Cloud Solutions, Architecture, PMO, and other business partners. This role will ensure client engagements are appropriately scoped, staffed, governed, and delivered while maintaining strong technical standards, operational discipline, and financial performance.
The successful candidate will combine strong people leadership, technical and cloud-services knowledge, operational judgment, and client-facing communication with the ability to scale delivery across multiple teams. This role is central to creating sustainable execution within Professional Services while enabling the Director to focus on broader department strategy and service portfolio growth.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of relevant IT services experience, including 3+ years leading engineering, cloud, or professional-services teams within a Managed Service Provider, systems integrator, or similar technology-services environment
- Demonstrated success leading multidisciplinary technical delivery teams with accountability for utilization, capacity, project budgets, delivery quality, and profitability
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, AWS, cloud operations, systems infrastructure, and professional-services project delivery
- Proven ability to manage complex delivery portfolios, balance competing resource demands, and drive execution across multiple teams and client engagements
- Strong people-leadership experience with the ability to coach managers and technical leaders, build team capability, and establish clear accountability
- Experience managing client escalations and complex cross-functional delivery issues with sound judgment and executive-level communication
- Strong operational and financial acumen with the ability to understand delivery economics, utilization, capacity, forecasting, and project performance
- Excellent cross-functional coordination, stakeholder-management, and communication skills with the ability to influence across technical and business teams
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience
Requirements
- Experience managing both shared managed-cloud services and dedicated-client engineering delivery models
- Microsoft Azure, AWS, or related cloud architecture or engineering certifications
- Project-management, service-management, or related professional certification
- Experience with PSA or project-management platforms such as ConnectWise Manage
- Experience using financial reporting, operational metrics, or business-intelligence dashboards to manage delivery performance
- Experience delivering technology services to financial services, investment management, alternative investments, or other regulated client environments
- Experience helping scale Professional Services organizations, delivery models, service offerings, or cross-functional operating processes
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive benefits
- Great perks for our global Team
- Professional and career development opportunities
Company Description
Atlas Technica’s mission is to shoulder IT management, user support, and cybersecurity for our clients, who are hedge funds and other investment firms. Founded in 2016, we have grown year over year through our uncompromising focus on service.
We value ownership, execution, growth, intelligence, and camaraderie. We are looking for people who share our Core Values, thrive, and contribute to this environment while putting the customer first. At Atlas Technica, we strive to maintain a professional yet friendly environment.