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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Associate Director, Microsoft Cloud Architect - **Company:** Deloitte - **Location:** Edinburgh, UK - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Microsoft Antivirus, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing Security, Disaster Recovery, Identity and Access Management, Zero Trust Network Access, Multi-Cloud, Togaf, National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework, Storage Technologies - **Published:** October 8, 2026 - **Apply:** https://apply.deloitte.co.uk/UKCareers/Login?jobId=25390 ## About the Role * Demonstrable experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale cloud and hybrid architectures across one or more major providers (Azure preferred), including on-premises, hybrid and multi-cloud patterns. * Deep expertise in cyber resilience and recovery architecture - for example isolated recovery environments / clean rooms, immutable and air-gapped backups, backup and recovery design, cyber recovery testing, recovery assurance, and meeting demanding RTO/RPO targets for critical workloads. * Experience designing for and recovering from destructive cyber events - ransomware and malware containment, resilient restoration, and business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) for critical services. * A track record of developing and owning reference architectures, blueprints, patterns and target operating designs, and of setting architectural standards and design governance and technology risk controls adherence. * Experience working in or with one of the Financial Services sector, the Energy, Resources and Industrials sector showing an understanding of the regulatory and control environment. * A strong understanding of how operational resilience regulation shapes design - important business services and impact tolerances (e.g. FCA/PRA/Bank of England), DORA, third-party and concentration risk, and resilience testing expectations. * Proven ability to operate as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders - shaping strategy, building the business case and articulating an authoritative point of view on resilience and recovery. * Equally strong delivery credentials - leading architecture on complex engagements or programmes end to end, balancing business requirements against security, cost, operability and risk. * Experience of the consulting or advisory model, or a comparable client-facing environment, with the commercial awareness to contribute to bids, proposals and practice growth. * Excellent communication skills, able to translate complex technical concepts for both technical and executive, non-technical audiences, and to present to architecture boards or design authorities. * A demonstrable appetite for building external eminence - thought leadership, published points of view, or speaking - or clear potential and ambition to do so. * Deep understanding of cloud security and resilience-by-design principles, including Zero Trust, identity security, privileged access management and secure landing zone architectures. * Hands-on experience with enterprise resilience and recovery technologies such as Azure Site Recovery, Azure Backup, Microsoft Defender or equivalent platforms., * Recognised certifications - for example professional-level cloud architect credentials in Azure, security certifications, and architecture frameworks such as TOGAF. * Hands-on familiarity with cyber recovery and immutable-storage technologies and isolated-recovery / cyber-vault solutions across cloud and on-premises platforms. * Experience of resilience and recovery testing, scenario-based severe-but-plausible testing, and automated restore-and-validate pipelines. * Knowledge of incident response and crisis management, and how architecture supports containment, forensics and coordinated recovery. * Familiarity with Zero Trust, secure-by-design principles and cloud-native security and networking controls. * Awareness of multi-cloud and hybrid patterns and the trade-offs of resilience, portability and provider concentration risk, including on-premises fallback for critical services. * Knowledge of relevant security and resilience standards (e.g. ISO 27001, ISO 22301, NIST CSF) as applied in regulated financial environments. * Experience mentoring and growing architecture teams, and contributing to reusable assets, accelerators and intellectual property. ## Description Success in this role is measured by the architectures you establish, the clients you advise, the engagements you deliver and the reputation you build for Deloitte in the sector. You will be expected to: * Define and embed a set of cyber resilience and recovery reference architectures spanning on-premises, hybrid and multi-cloud environments, adopted as the baseline for Deloitte engagements and by clients across financial services. * Design resilient recovery capabilities - for example isolated / clean-room recovery environments, immutable and air-gapped backups, and rapid, tested restoration - that meet stringent recovery time and recovery point objectives for critical services. * Act as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders - translating important business services and impact tolerances into clear, defensible resilience and recovery architectures and pragmatic roadmaps. * Lead the architecture workstream on complex engagements from strategy through to delivery, owning technical quality, risk and the coherence of the end-to-end solution. * Reconcile competing demands - cloud-first ambition against operational resilience, third-party and concentration risk, and data protection obligations - into designs clients can safely operate, test and evidence to regulators. * Strengthen clients' ability to withstand and recover from destructive cyber events - embedding recovery testing, threat-led exercising and anomaly detection so that recoverability is proven, not assumed. * Build Deloitte's external eminence in resilience and recovery: authoring published points of view and thought leadership, and representing the firm at client, industry and sector forums. * Strengthen the capability around you - mentoring architects and engineers, contributing to assets, patterns and standards, and supporting the growth of the practice's pipeline and bids.