Azure Solutions Architect

• Proven experience (minimum 6 years) as a Solutions Architect or Senior Technical Lead on Azure-hosted web applications with solid understanding of Azure infrastructure components, cloud administration, and automation tools (eg, PowerShell, Azure CLI) and the Azure Well-Architected Framework (WAF)
• Proven experience validating vendor-proposed technical designs (ADD) against business requirements.
• Ensure all architectural decisions comply with internal security policies and regulatory requirements.
• Own creation and maintenance of Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) alongside ADD validation documenting what was decided, why, and what alternatives were rejected (for traceability purposes during the whole programme delivery).
• Strong Azure application architecture: data modelling, API/integration patterns, service design.
• Deep familiarity with REST API design and systems integration, Salesforce, SSO/identity providers, and Azure-hosted cloud services and data infrastructure.
• Experience designing/validating parallel-run reconciliation approaches defining what “matching output” means technically between old and new systems (we might need to use them during that phase too).
• Ensure system design accounts for operational ownership boundaries (patching, monitoring, cost/FinOps, incident response) between the organisation and the vendor/agency.
• Comfortable working alongside a delivery vendor as the client-side technical authority, translating tradeoffs into plain language for non-technical stakeholders.
• Educated to degree level or equivalent; a BSc/MSc in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field is preferred.
• Act as the organisation’s internal technical authority in agency conversations
• Identify over-engineering, scope creep, and commercial risk in supplier proposals.
• Hold external teams accountable to quality, feasibility, and agreed architectural standards

They are located in London and would need someone who can travel to site when needed.

Our client is a market-leading technology services company who work with customers both in the private and public sector delivering solutions which helps ensure they run efficiently and effectively.

Please be aware this role will be 2.5 days per week for the 3 months not full time.