Azure Solution Architect

In this role you will lead Azure-focused architectural work, translating business goals into scalable cloud designs. You’ll own the technical architecture, guide multi-disciplinary delivery teams, and drive cloud migration and infrastructure transformation. You will run client workshops, shape Azure strategy, and produce comprehensive design documentation within a fast-growing IT transformation context. This position offers high-impact work across complex, multi-supplier environments, with a clear path to leadership and architecture governance.

• 25 days’ holiday
• Private Medical Health care via Vitality
• Pension contribution
• Life Assurance
• Professional certifications supported
• Retail discounts

• Act as the senior technical authority for Azure-focused projects and programmes, providing architectural direction and technical leadership
• Lead client workshops to understand business requirements and develop Azure-based solutions
• Design and implement Azure cloud architectures (IaaS, PaaS, networking, security, identity, infrastructure services)
• Produce end-to-end architecture documentation (HLDs, LLDs, migration strategies)
• Define current and target-state architectures and cloud migration approaches
• Lead cloud migration and infrastructure transformation activities ensuring performance, security, availability and scalability
• Design holistic service solutions covering technology, service support, and ongoing delivery
• Provide technical coordination across multiple engineering and delivery teams
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Senior Management and Service Acceptance for governance and compliance
• Support full project lifecycle from discovery to decommissioning
• Work within Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies

• Strong and demonstrable experience as a Solution Architect or Cloud Architect with a primary focus on Microsoft Azure
• Extensive experience in designing and delivering Azure cloud solutions including complex migrations
• Solid understanding of Azure architecture principles and the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework
• Hands-on experience with Azure IaaS, PaaS, networking, storage and compute
• Experience in infrastructure engineering for enterprise environments
• Experience designing secure, scalable, and resilient cloud architectures
• Knowledge of Azure networking, identity and access management, security and monitoring
• Experience working in multi-vendor/multi-supplier environments
• Collaborates with development and infra teams to support cloud platforms
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills for leading technical discussions and workshops
• Excellent technical documentation skills for architectural designs and specs
• Understanding of Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies

• Stakeholder management
• Excellent communication
• Leadership and facilitation of workshops
• Microsoft Azure
• Azure IaaS and PaaS
• Azure networking, security, identity and access management