Cloud Solution Architect
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Job description
- Own solutions end-to-end - from pre-sales through to delivery
- Act as design authority, shaping what gets sold and how it's delivered
- Work across Azure migrations, landing zones, and modern cloud platforms
- Influence standards, frameworks, and reusable offerings
- Join a collaborative team where pre-sales and delivery are genuinely aligned
The Role:
As a Cloud Solutions Architect, you'll sit at the intersection of pre-sales, architecture, and hands-on delivery - playing a critical role in both winning and delivering high-quality Azure solutions.
You'll work closely with Sales and Pre-Sales teams to shape opportunities, lead customer discovery sessions, and produce high-quality solution designs, before following those solutions through into successful delivery., * Lead technical pre-sales engagements, ensuring solutions are deliverable, scalable, and commercially sound
- Run customer discovery workshops and cloud assessments across infrastructure, security, identity, and governance
- Translate findings into clear recommendations, roadmaps, and executive-level outputs
- Produce high-quality artefacts including SOWs, high-level designs (HLDs), and effort estimates
- Act as technical sign-off authority for solutions before they are presented to customers
- Support bids, RFPs, and customer presentations as the trusted technical expert
Delivery & Technical Leadership
- Lead delivery of complex Azure projects including migrations, landing zones, and platform builds
- Design and implement Azure environments aligned to Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) best practices
- Own technical quality from project kick-off through to service transition
- Act as the escalation point for technical issues, risks, and dependencies
- Ensure delivery stays aligned to agreed scope, timelines, and effort
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a strong technical culture
Practice Development
- Contribute to repeatable service offerings, frameworks, and best practices
- Build reusable artefacts including assessment tools, templates, and reference architectures
- Stay current with Azure and Microsoft technology developments and share knowledge internally
The Candidate:
We're looking for a well-rounded Cloud Architect who is equally comfortable in front of customers, designing solutions, and leading delivery.
Requirements
- Proven experience in a Cloud Solutions Architect, Pre-Sales Architect, or Senior Consultant role
- Strong experience across the full lifecycle: discovery, design, SOW creation, and delivery
- Hands-on delivery experience with Azure migrations, landing zones, and cloud platforms
- Ability to balance technical excellence with commercial awareness (scope, effort, margin)
- Confidence leading customer workshops and engaging with both technical and business stakeholders
Technical expertise in:
- Azure architecture (IaaS & PaaS)
- Networking, identity, and security (Entra ID, Conditional Access, networking design)
- Azure migration tools and approaches (Azure Migrate, wave planning)
- Governance and monitoring (Policy, Log Analytics, Azure Monitor)
- Infrastructure as Code (Bicep, Terraform, or similar)
Desirable:
Experience with hybrid cloud (Azure Arc, VMware, etc.)
Exposure to security and compliance tooling (Defender, Sentinel, Purview)
Understanding of FinOps or cost optimisation practices
Certifications:
AZ-305 (Azure Solutions Architect Expert) - preferred or working towards
Benefits & conditions
- Life Insurance
- Pension
- Car allowance (subject to role)
- £1000 refer a friend bonus.
- Generous uncapped commission scheme (sales role)
- Profit share bonus scheme (non-sales, subject to T&C's)
- Free will-writing service
- Long Service Awards (financial and time rewards)
- Electric Car Scheme (salary sacrifice)
- Cycle to Work Scheme (salary sacrifice)
- IT Purchase / Loan Scheme
- Financial Wellbeing Tool
- Pension Surgery (consultation with a financial advisor)
- Discount scheme (retail, experience days etc.)
- Navan
- Buying holidays (salary sacrifice)
- Childcare voucher scheme
Health and Wellbeing
- Private Medical Insurance
- Employee Assistance Programme -for you and your family (Counselling, legal advice, career coaching, financial support)
- Digital GP
- Wisdom Well-Being Platform
- Gym membership contribution
- Gym time
- Yoga -Free onsite yoga
- Eye tests
- Flu jabs
- Fruit basket -per floor stocked weekly
- Mental Health First Aiders
Time off
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Holidays -above statutory increasing with service, plus 8 bank holidays
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Birthday benefit -Have your birthday off on us!
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Enhanced Maternity Pay
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Enhanced Paternity Pay
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Compassionate Leave
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Jury Duty
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Funeral Leave
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Volunteering Days
Perks
- Welcome goodie bag.
- Company apparel
- Free staff parties
- Incentives -Competitions and prizes including trips.
- Staff awards
- Culture Team events
Environment
- Free onsite parking
- New refurbed office -Table tennis, table football, games consoles, multi-faith room, fully stocked bar, outdoor eating area, smoking shelter.