Lead Enterprise Architect - Cloud Solutions

Simon James IT Ltd

London, UK

11 days ago

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Role details

Contract type

Temporary contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Experience level

Expert

Compensation

£162,500.0 - £175,500.0

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

www.adzuna.co.uk

Tech stack

Microsoft Windows Amazon Web Services Systems Engineering Microsoft Azure Communications as a Service (CaaS) Cloud Computing Linux VMware ESX Servers Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Information Technology Operations System Center Operations Management NetApp Applications

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Networking Basics Routing Platform as a Service (PAAS) Cloud Services Ansible Storage Virtualization Systems Integration Virtualization Technology Private Cloud Environment Event Driven Architecture Containerization Kubernetes Storage Technologies SolarWinds (Software) Puppet Terraform Serverless Computing Docker Servicenow Vmware Microservices

Job description

Architect / Practice Lead, to join a major transformation initiative. You will take ownership of private cloud, public IaaS/PaaS (AWS and Azure), networking, and digital workplace services, ensuring all transformation strategies and project deliveries comply with best practices and uniform global standards.This is a high-impact, client-facing role that bridges pre-sales, solutioning, and hands-on technical design. You will lead architectural alignment between regional business stakeholders and the Global Technology organisation., Strategy & Transformation:

Define transformation strategies, present to executive steering committees, and establish clear 1-2 year technical visions.

Solution Architecture:

Architect highly complex solutions across private cloud, public cloud, networking, and digital workplace environments, balancing cost, performance, and scalability.

Pre-Sales & Delivery:

Assist sales and delivery teams with solution design, effort estimation, costing, and successful execution through Deliverability Assessment Reviews (DA Reviews).

Technical Leadership:

Provide thought leadership on emerging technologies, mentor junior solution architects, and remain hands-on where required to unblock technical teams.

Governance & Standards:

Ensure designs adhere to enterprise architecture standards, cloud industry security best practices (CSA & NIST), and published reference architectures.

Requirements

iaas
paas
aws
azure
private cloud, * Background: Significant professional technical and IT operations experience within a large-scale, multinational technology services environment, backed by a strong systems engineering foundation.
Cloud & Virtualisation: Extensive hands-on expertise with AWS, Azure, Private Cloud (VMware IaaS, Azure AVS, VxRail, ESX, vSAN), and containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes, CaaS, FaaS, Serverless).
Storage Technologies: Demonstrable experience working with Hitachi, Dell, and NetApp storage solutions.
Infrastructure as Code & Tooling: Comprehensive experience implementing and integrating multiple IaC and management toolsets (e.g., Terraform, ServiceNow CMP, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SolarWinds, SCOM) at an enterprise scale.
Architecture & Networking: Deep knowledge of networking principles (TCP/UDP, routing, SDN), Linux / Windows OS internals, multi-tenanted virtualised platforms, and microservice/event-driven architectures.
Consulting & Communication: Outstanding stakeholder management, client engagement, negotiation, and written/verbal communication skills.