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# Cloud Architect - Hybrid - Contract

- **Company:** Anson McCade
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Salary:** £169,000.0 - £182,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Application Services, Microsoft Azure, BigQuery, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Security, Cloud Engineering, Cloud Storage, Continuous Integration, Data Governance, DevOps, Identity and Access Management, Systems Integration, Data Logging, Google Cloud, Multi-Cloud, HybridCloud, Event Driven Architecture, Kubernetes, Terraform, Api Management, Databricks, Microservices
- **Published:** August 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/cloud-architect/anson-mccade-job107908715

## About the Role

* Extensive experience designing enterprise-scale Azure and GCP environments
 * Strong knowledge of Azure Landing Zones
 * Experience with AKS, Azure App Services, Functions and API Management
 * Strong understanding of Azure networking, monitoring and Entra ID
 * Experience with GKE, Cloud Run, Compute Engine, BigQuery and Cloud Storage
 * Strong GCP networking, IAM, logging and monitoring knowledge
 * Expertise in cloud-native, microservices, API-led and event-driven architectures
 * Strong containerisation and Kubernetes experience
 * Infrastructure-as-Code expertise using Terraform
 * Knowledge of CI/CD, DevOps and modern platform engineering practices
 * Experience designing hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud integrations
 * Strong understanding of cloud security, data governance and architecture governance
 * Experience delivering cloud transformations within banking, financial services or another regulated environment
 * Understanding of operational resilience, risk management and financial-services outsourcing requirements
 * Experience influencing senior stakeholders and guiding technical delivery teams
 * Databricks, data-platform, AI or analytics workload experience would be advantageous
 * Relevant Azure or GCP architecture certifications would be beneficial

## Description

A hands-on Cloud Architect is required to support a strategic cloud transformation and application modernisation programme within a leading financial services organisation.

The role will define and implement enterprise-scale Azure and Google Cloud architectures, supporting legacy application migration, banking platform modernisation and the adoption of secure cloud-native services. The successful contractor will combine strong architectural thinking with the practical delivery experience needed to guide engineering teams through complex transformation initiatives.


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