Senior Cloud Solutions Architect

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

📋 Description

• Oversee solution architecture for intricate cloud migration, modernization, landing zone, platform, security, and cloud-native projects.

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

• Design secure, scalable, and resilient solutions utilizing Azure and/or AWS, covering 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 closely with Cloud Engineering and Delivery teams to guarantee that architecture is practical, implementable, and operationally robust.

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

• Ensure consistency between presales solutions and the solutions that are ultimately delivered.

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

• Mentor Cloud Solutions Architects and enhance the architecture capability and best practices throughout the broader team.

• Influence solutions during customer engagements, impact bids and RFPs, establish architectural direction, and ensure technical soundness during delivery.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive expertise in Microsoft Azure and/or AWS within complex enterprise cloud environments.

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

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

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

• Solid understanding of DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, automation, and platform engineering principles.

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

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

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

• Capability to balance customer requirements with technical quality, delivery risks, and commercial considerations.

• Experience with both Azure and AWS is desirable.

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

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

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

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

• Background in mentoring architects or other technical professionals is desirable.

• Public speaking, technical thought leadership, or knowledge-sharing experience is desirable.

🏝️ Benefits

• Employees have the option to work remotely.

• An inclusive culture with accessible hiring practices.

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