Solution Director: Platform & AI

📋 Job Overview

Solution Director: Platform & AI
Location: East Coast (NY/NJ, Atlanta, Charlotte, or South Florida)
Who We Are
AND Digital is a tech company dedicated to accelerating digital delivery and closing the digital skills gap. Since 2014, we have supported organisations in building better digital products and stronger digital teams.
We believe our work should always create a remarkable impact for our clients. Through our regional offices, known as ‘Clubs,’ we build strong relationships with our partners, ensuring they are prioritised by teams located nearby.
This unique model has driven success for both our clients and ourselves, reflected in our remarkable organic growth since 2014. Today, we are over 1,300 people strong, with Clubs across the UK, Europe, and the USA—and plans for global expansion in the coming years.
Join us and help fulfil our mission to close the world’s digital skills gap.

🏢 About AND Digital

Solution Director – Platform & AI
As a Technical Solution Director within our central Practice Area, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and driving the growth of AND Digital’s Platform & AI business. Reporting directly to the US CTO, you’ll define and execute our go-to-market strategy, build strong ecosystem partnerships, and guide solution delivery through AND’s unique club model.
Acting as a senior advisor to clients, you will design and lead the delivery of transformative enterprise-grade platform, cloud, software engineering, and AI solutions, leveraging deep expertise across AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, modern application platforms, cloud-native architectures, and AI technologies.
As part of a rapidly scaling US operation—growing over 400% year-over-year—you’ll collaborate with global powerhouses and C-Suite leaders across industries such as Financial Services, Travel, and beyond. In addition to driving client success, you’ll help shape AND Digital’s Platform and AI capability across North America, fostering technical excellence and growing internal capability to meet the expanding demand for intelligent, scalable and modern digital transformation.

🎯 The Role

You will engage with clients as a trusted advisor to C-suite stakeholders, build relationships that uncover client challenges, technology opportunities, and transformation priorities, and show the art of the possible across Platform, Cloud, Software Engineering and AI, connecting innovation to measurable outcomes. You will help clients define technology strategies that enable scale, agility, resilience, and business growth.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Engage with clients as a trusted advisor to C-suite stakeholders (CTO/CDO/CPO).
• Build relationships that uncover client challenges, technology opportunities, and transformation priorities.
• Show the art of the possible across Platform, Cloud, Software Engineering and AI, connecting innovation to measurable outcomes.
• Help clients define technology strategies that enable scale, agility, resilience, and business growth.
• Translate complex business and technology needs into compelling, value-driven Platform & AI solutions.
• Design and shape modern technology platforms, cloud-native architectures, application ecosystems, and AI-enabled solutions.
• Guide teams to deliver against the technical vision and ensure robust, outcome-focused delivery.
• Support business case development, proposals, and pre-sales.
• Ensure solutions balance technical excellence, commercial viability, scalability, security, and time to value.
• Provide client-facing technical leadership across AI architecture, platform architecture, cloud engineering, software engineering, and technology strategy.
• Lead technology-agnostic solutioning across AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and other modern technology platforms.
• Act as a senior technical gatekeeper for architecture, engineering quality, AI, and platform delivery.
• Oversee architecture quality and delivery outcomes across multiple engagements.
• Ensure projects align to measurable client KPIs and business results.
• Drive cloud-native engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, automation, MLOps, and engineering best practices through coaching and governance.
• Establish and maintain standards for architecture, code quality, system design, security, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Identify, qualify, and shape new opportunities across AND.
• Partner with Client Teams to develop deals, coach others, and influence outcomes.
• Collaborate closely with strategic partners such as AWS, Google, and Microsoft to co-sell and co-market solutions.
• Help define go-to-market strategy and reusable accelerators for Platform & AI offerings.
• Represent AND Digital’s Platform & AI capability in the market externally, contributing to proposals, events, and industry forums.
• Achieve a leveraged revenue impact target of around $2.5m+.
• Own and evolve AND’s Platform & AI proposition, partnerships, and thought leadership.
• Develop propositions spanning platform engineering, cloud transformation, modern software engineering, AI, and intelligent application development.
• Be a visible leader in the Platform & AI community—driving consistency, quality, and innovation.
• Develop reusable frameworks, accelerators, patterns, and IP that strengthen AND’s market proposition.
• Develop training and mentoring to grow internal capability.
• Provide senior oversight, coaching, and technical challenge across engagements.
• Champion engineering and architectural excellence and act as a role model for proactive, positive leadership.
• Mentor platform, cloud, software engineering, and AI practitioners across the US and nearshore teams.
• Shape the foundation of AND Digital’s Platform & AI practice in the US.
• Contribute to US recruitment, onboarding, and capability growth across Platform Engineering, Cloud, AI, Software Engineering, as well as more broadly.

🎁 Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits package.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Key Evaluation Criteria
Minimum 2+ years in recent senior leadership roles within Platform, Cloud, Software Engineering, AI, or Technology Architecture, OR a highly hands-on, client-facing individual who is ready to take the