Azure Cloud Architect
Permanent
Location: UK - Remote
Salary: £80,000 - £90,000 (+ benefits)
Skills: Azure Architecture, Design Authority, HLD/LLD, Cloud Governance, Azure Landing Zones
We are working with a leading technology and consultancy organisation to recruit an experienced Azure Cloud Architect into its Infrastructure & Cloud team.
This is a senior, customer-facing architecture role focused on the design, governance and assurance of complex cloud and infrastructure solutions across large-scale transformation programmes.
The role will act as a technical authority across cloud solution design, ensuring architectures are secure, scalable, resilient, supportable and commercially viable. It is less focused on hands-on engineering and more on strategic architecture, design assurance, technical leadership and customer engagement.
The role
You will be responsible for:
Leading and chairing cloud and infrastructure Design Authority reviews
Reviewing and approving High-Level and Low-Level Designs
Providing architectural direction across Azure, AWS, Microsoft 365 and hybrid cloud environments
Defining and governing cloud standards, reference architectures, design patterns and guardrails
Challenging solution designs where there are risks around complexity, cost, security, supportability or compliance
Supporting cloud migrations, modernisation programmes and platform transformation initiatives
Working closely with engineering, security, delivery and operational teams throughout the solution lifecycle
Providing technical leadership during bids, tenders, discovery engagements and customer workshops
Reviewing solution scope, assumptions, dependencies, sizing, risk and cost
Presenting and defending architectural decisions to customers and senior stakeholders
Ensuring solutions meet requirements around resilience, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery and operational handover
Acting as a senior escalation point for complex technical decisions
Mentoring architects, technical leads and cloud engineering teams
What we're looking for
We are looking for an experienced cloud architect with strong technical depth and the ability to operate at a strategic and customer-facing leve...
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