Senior Cloud Solutions Architect

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

📋 Description

• Oversee solution architecture for intricate cloud migrations, modernization, landing zones, platforms, security, and cloud-native projects.

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

• Create secure, scalable, and resilient solutions on Azure and/or AWS that encompass infrastructure, networking, identity, governance, and operations.

• Generate 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 guarantee that architecture is practical, implementable, and operationally efficient.

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

• Ensure consistency between presales solutions and the solutions delivered.

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

• Mentor Cloud Solutions Architects to enhance architecture capabilities and promote best practices.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive knowledge of Microsoft Azure and/or AWS within complex enterprise cloud settings.

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

• Experience in designing cloud migration, modernization, landing zones, platforms, or cloud-native solutions.

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

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

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

• Strong comprehension of architecture governance, technical assurance, and design decision-making processes.

• Capable of confidently leading technical discussions with both technical and non-technical customer stakeholders.

• Ability to balance customer needs, technical quality, delivery risks, and commercial considerations.

• Experience with both Azure and AWS (preferred).

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

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional or equivalent practical experience (preferred).

• TOGAF or another recognized architecture framework/certification (preferred).

• Experience in FinOps, cloud governance, cloud security, and operational readiness (preferred).

• Experience mentoring architects or other technical professionals (preferred).

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunities for remote work.

• An inclusive culture and accessible hiring practices.

• Employee Resource Groups, including Diversity and Inclusion, Telefónica Tech Pride, Neurodiversity, ELEVATE (African and Caribbean heritage network), and Sustainability.

• Opportunities to mentor other architects and influence reusable architecture patterns and standards.