Azure Solution Architect

As an Azure Solution Architect, you translate business goals into scalable cloud designs and lead technical delivery. You own the Azure-focused architecture across complex migrations and infrastructure transformations, collaborating with clients and cross-functional teams. You’ll shape cloud strategies, produce design artifacts, and ensure secure, resilient solutions. This role offers high-impact work in a growth-focused company driving large-scale IT transformation. You will engage with stakeholders to deliver measurable value and innovation.

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

• Act as senior technical authority for Azure projects and provide architectural direction
• Lead client workshops to capture requirements and propose Azure-based solutions
• Design and implement Azure architectures (IaaS, PaaS, networking, security, identity, infrastructure services)
• Produce end-to-end architecture docs (HLDs, LLDs, migration strategies)
• Define current and target-state architectures and plan migration approaches
• Lead cloud migration and infrastructure transformation to meet performance, security, availability, and scalability goals
• Design holistic service solutions covering operation and ongoing delivery
• Coordinate technically across multiple engineering and delivery teams
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Senior Management and Service Acceptance for governance
• Support full project lifecycle from discovery through decommissioning
• Work within Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies to meet timelines and quality

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

• Stakeholder management
• Communication and presentation skills
• Leadership and technical coordination
• Microsoft Azure (IaaS, PaaS)
• Azure networking
• Security and IAM in Azure