Cloud CTO as a Service provides senior technical leadership to set direction, remove delivery blockers, and reduce risk across complex programmes. It combines high-level strategy and architecture assurance with practical experience, acting as a "critical friend" to teams and senior stakeholders to ensure resilient, cost-conscious outcomes.
Features & Benefits
| Features | Benefits |
|---|---|
| Cloud and platform strategy development | Faster, better technical decisions |
| Architecture governance and decision records | Reduced delivery and security risk |
| Security posture review and prioritisation | Clearer direction for engineering teams |
| Design assurance and technical risk management | Improved stakeholder confidence and alignment |
| Operating model and team capability uplift | Higher quality designs and outcomes |
| Supplier and delivery oversight | Better value from cloud spend |
| Roadmap, budget and investment guidance | Stronger compliance and assurance |
| Programme steering and stakeholder alignment | More resilient operational practices |
| Compliance and accreditation planning | Accelerated delivery through clear priorities |
| Incident review and improvement actions | Access to senior expertise on demand |
Service Detail
Strategic Leadership and Governance
We provide senior technical leadership to shape strategy, architecture decisions, and delivery governance. This includes the creation of formal decision records, technical standards, and risk management frameworks to ensure every technological choice remains aligned with your business goals and operational constraints. We act as a "critical friend" to both engineering teams and C-suite stakeholders, facilitating clearer communication and faster technical decision-making. By selecting the most appropriate cloud models—whether IaaS, PaaS, SaaS or a mix of public, private, hybrid, and sovereign clouds—we reduce architectural complexity and ensure your platform is built for long-term scalability.
Operational Readiness and Capability Uplift
A core component of our service is shaping the technical operating model so that development, service, and security functions operate as a unified force. We support organisations in modernising legacy estates by providing architectural governance and solution assurance that bridges the gap between old and new systems. This often involves a significant focus on capability uplift, where we coach your internal teams on modern practices such as DevSecOps, Agentic Engineering, and Infrastructure as Code. We also provide robust oversight for third-party suppliers, ensuring that their delivery meets your specific quality and security standards.
Security, Assurance, and Compliance
Security is embedded at the heart of our leadership. We help embed cybersecurity and data protection measures aligned with DPA/GDPR, Cyber Essentials, and NCSC guidance. By integrating automated checks and policy-as-code controls, we ensure your security posture is auditable and repeatable. We map these controls to established frameworks like NIST and CIS, producing reusable evidence that supports your formal accreditation and governance requirements. Our approach focuses on least privilege access and auditable pipelines, ensuring that every configuration change is both visible and controlled.
Onboarding, Service Management, and Data Handling
Our engagement begins with a structured onboarding process to confirm environments, security constraints, and change windows. We produce the essential run artefacts, including service catalogue entries, dashboards, and detailed runbooks, to ensure a clean transition into Business as Usual (BAU). Where ongoing support is required, we align with ITIL-style practices for incident, problem, and change management. We strictly protect data in transit and at rest, adhering to your retention rules while maintaining your ownership. Every solution is designed for portability, using automation and documented configurations to ensure you can migrate or exit without vendor lock-in.
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