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# Cloud Architect (Azure)

- **Company:** La Fosse
- **Location:** Leeds, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Applications Architecture, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Integration Frameworks
- **Published:** August 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2815088956-cloud-architect-azure

## About the Role

* Experience delivering complex, enterprise-level solutions (including third-party integrations).
 * Strong technical awareness across application, data and cloud (Azure) architectures.
 * Confident engaging and challenging senior stakeholders; resilient and influential.

## Description

We're partnered with an insurance business to support them in recruiting a Cloud Architect to shape and deliver end-to-end solutions across on-premises and Azure environments. The role focuses on defining, developing and governing application architecture, and contributing to wider enterprise domains.

Key Responsibilities

 * Lead technical design and integration across on-prem and Azure platforms.
 * Own and evolve the Application Architecture domain, supporting Business, Data, Technology and Security domains.
 * Assess new/third-party technologies, including cost, risk, gap analysis and PoCs.
 * Ensure applications are well-modelled across process, people and technology, identifying unnecessary complexity.

Skills Required

 * Experience delivering complex, enterprise-level solutions (including third-party integrations).
 * Strong technical awareness across application, data and cloud (Azure) architectures.
 * Confident engaging and challenging senior stakeholders; resilient and influential.

This is a hybrid role, requiring 2 days per week in the client's Leeds office.


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