Lead Azure Cloud Architect- London

Job summary

Lead the design and delivery of a public-sector cloud transformation, consolidating existing platforms into a secure, scalable, well-governed Microsoft Azure environment. Define the target architecture, landing zone, technical standards, and migration roadmaps, while providing technical leadership through discovery, design, and adoption. The role includes assessing infrastructure and migration dependencies and presenting architecture decisions to senior stakeholders.

Benefits

Qualifications

• Active SC security clearance.
• Significant experience as an Azure Cloud Architect, Lead Architect, or Design Architect.
• Experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale Microsoft Azure environments.
• Experience leading cloud migration, platform consolidation, or infrastructure transformation programmes.
• Strong knowledge of Azure landing zones, cloud governance, and enterprise-scale architecture.
• Experience designing Azure networking, identity, security, monitoring, and management services.
• Ability to create architecture frameworks, standards, design documentation, and technical roadmaps.
• Experience assessing existing infrastructure and defining a future-state architecture.
• Understanding of hybrid cloud environments and migration dependencies.
• Experience leading technical teams and providing architectural assurance.
• Ability to explain complex technical designs to senior non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong influencing and decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the target Azure cloud architecture.
• Lead the design of the Azure platform, frameworks, and technical standards.
• Develop strategies for consolidating and migrating existing platforms.
• Assess existing platforms, integrations, dependencies, and infrastructure services.
• Design secure, scalable, and resilient Azure solutions.
• Establish architecture principles for governance, security, networking, identity, data, monitoring, and operations.
• Lead the design and implementation of the Azure landing zone and cloud foundations.
• Create architecture roadmaps and transition plans.
• Provide technical leadership through discovery, design, migration, and adoption.
• Present architecture options and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Guide engineering and infrastructure teams as the programme's technical authority.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, and constraints and recommend mitigations.
• Support cloud adoption, operating model changes, and architectural governance.
• Support knowledge transfer and development of internal Azure capability.

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Contract length

Security clearance

Relocation