Location: Chennai / Bangalore

Experience: 15+ years in technology consulting or delivery, including 5+ years in practice or technology leadership Employment

Type: Full time Department: AI & Cloud Practice

About the Role

We are looking for a Practice Head – AI & Cloud to strengthen and grow Teceze’s existing practice. The role combines technology leadership, technical presales, service delivery, commercial ownership, and people management. The successful candidate will guide technical and presales teams, expand service capabilities, and ensure successful customer delivery.

· Lead the practice strategy, service portfolio, roadmap, and go-to-market initiatives.

· Own practice revenue, profitability, budgets, resource utilization, and growth.

· Enhance existing offerings, delivery frameworks, reusable accelerators, and industry solutions.

· Partner with sales to develop opportunities, qualify requirements, and lead strategic pursuits.

· Lead discovery sessions and CXO engagements, translating customer priorities into practical AI and cloud solutions.

· Guide technical and presales teams on architecture, proposals, RFP/RFI responses, BoMs, SOWs, effort estimates, and commercials.

· Provide architecture oversight across AWS, Azure, GCP, private cloud, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud environments.

· Strengthen services for cloud migration, modernization, backup, disaster recovery, managed services, DevOps, and platform engineering.

· Embed FinOps, cloud security, governance, resilience, and observability into solutions and delivery.

· Lead AI/ML, Generative AI, RAG, enterprise copilot, intelligent automation, and agentic AI engagements from discovery through production.

· Govern service delivery, technical quality, SLAs, risks, escalations, and customer satisfaction,



ensuring effective presales-to-delivery handovers.

· Strengthen technology partnerships and mentor architects, consultants, engineers, presales specialists, and delivery leaders.

Skills & Experience & Certification.

· Proven experience leading and growing an established cloud, AI, or related technology practice.

· Strong technical presales and service delivery experience, with the ability to review solutions and guide teams through complex customer engagements.

· Sound knowledge of enterprise cloud architecture, migration, modernization, and managed services across major hyperscale.

· Practical experience leading AI solutions through data readiness, architecture, evaluation, integration, and production deployment.

· Knowledge of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, automation, and MLOps/LLMOps.

· Understanding of responsible AI, data privacy, security, and AI governance.

· AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect.

· Relevant AI/ML or Generative AI certifications.

· Experience managing delivery performance, service transitions, resource planning, and customer escalations.

· Strong CXO communication, stakeholder management, team development, and commercial judgment.

Ideal Candidate

· A business-focused leader who can strengthen and grow Teceze’s existing AI & Cloud practice.

· Strong in technical presales and service delivery, capable of guiding technical and presales teams on solution architecture, proposals, estimates, and delivery approaches.

· An experienced people leader who develops team capabilities and drives collaboration across sales, presales, and delivery.

· A results-driven leader who improves practice performance, profitability, innovation, and delivery quality

📌 Practice Head AI & Cloud (Chennai)
🏢 Teceze India
📍 Chennai