Senior Azure Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Lead the architectural solutions for intricate cloud migration, modernization, landing zone, platform, security, and cloud-native projects.

• Develop technical solutions for customer opportunities, proposals, and RFPs, ensuring a balance between technical excellence, commercial feasibility, and delivery practicality.

• Design secure, scalable, and resilient Azure solutions that encompass infrastructure, networking, identity, governance, and operations.

• Create and validate High-Level Designs (HLDs), Low-Level Designs (LLDs), reference architectures, design documentation, and architectural decisions.

• Facilitate customer discovery sessions, technical workshops, design reviews, and solution playback meetings.

• Collaborate with Cloud Engineering and Delivery teams to ensure that architecture is practical, implementable, and operationally robust.

• Provide architecture governance and design assurance while identifying risks, dependencies, constraints, and exceptions.

• Ensure alignment between presales solutions and the solutions delivered.

• Contribute to cloud architecture standards, reusable patterns, blueprints, and reference designs.

• Mentor Cloud Solutions Architects, enhancing architecture capabilities and best practices across the broader team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive expertise in Microsoft Azure within complex enterprise cloud environments.

• Solid knowledge of cloud architecture across IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, networking, identity, security, governance, and operations.

• Experience in designing cloud migration, modernization, landing zone, platform, or cloud-native solutions.

• Proven track record in leading complex solution architecture and creating implementation-ready architectural documentation.

• Strong grasp of DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, automation, and platform engineering principles.

• Experience in contributing to or leading bids, RFPs, proposals, and customer solution development.

• Deep understanding of architecture governance, technical assurance, and design decision-making processes.

• Ability to confidently lead technical discussions with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Capacity to balance customer needs, technical quality, delivery risk, and commercial factors.

• Experience with both Azure and AWS platforms.

• Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) or equivalent practical experience required.

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional or equivalent practical experience is necessary.

• TOGAF or another recognized architecture framework/certification is preferred.

• Experience with FinOps, cloud governance, cloud security, and operational readiness.

• Background in mentoring architects or other technical professionals.

• Experience in public speaking, technical thought leadership, or knowledge-sharing.

🏝️ Benefits

• Employees have the option to work remotely.

• Inclusion and diversity initiatives are actively promoted.

• Access to Employee Resource Groups, including TogetHer, Diversity and Inclusion, Telefónica Tech Pride, Neurodiversity, ELEVATE, and Sustainability.