Cloud Architect

The perfect candidate is a seasoned Azure architect who can design resilient, secure, enterprise-grade cloud solutions while guiding teams and enforcing governance. They combine hands-on engineering capability with architectural discipline and the maturity to operate in a regulated financial environment.

A highly experienced Azure architect who has designed enterprise-grade, secure, resilient cloud platforms. Someone who can operate confidently across architecture, engineering, governance, and DevOps, and who is comfortable mentoring teams while enforcing standards.

Essential Attributes

Technical Excellence

• Azure mastery - Expert-level knowledge of Azure services across compute, networking, identity, storage, security, and resilience.
• Infrastructure as Code - Strong hands-on experience with Terraform, Azure DevOps pipelines, GitOps, automation patterns.
• Resilient architecture - Proven ability to design multi-region, fault-tolerant, DR-ready architectures with clear RTO/RPO strategies.
• Cloud governance - Deep understanding of landing zones, policies, RBAC, compliance, and enterprise guardrails.
• Security architecture - Strong grasp of identity, encryption, network segmentation, zero trust, and secure-by-design principles.
• Troubleshooting - Ability to diagnose complex cross-service issues in large-scale Azure environments.

Architectural & Enterprise Skills

• Enterprise architecture alignment - Comfortable collaborating with multiple architecture domains (Security, Infra, Network, Solution).
• Standards & patterns - Experience creating reference architectures, reusable patterns, and engineering guidelines.
• Documentation - Clear, structured documentation skills for standards, designs, and training materials.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Mentoring - Able to coach engineering teams and uplift cloud maturity.
• Stakeholder communication - Strong communicator who can translate complex requirements into actionable designs.
• Governance participation - Comfortable presenting designs in architecture boards, security reviews, and compliance forums.

Behavioural Traits

• Structured, calm, and analytical.
• Strong ownership and accountability.
• Able to balance innovation with enterprise constraints.
• Comfortable challenging teams when standards or security are at risk.