Cloud / Azure Architect - £80,000

A global professional services organisation is looking to hire a Cloud Architect with extensive Azure experience to work out of its prestigious central London hub

The main remit of the role is work with application teams to define the company's vision and roadmaps for Azure / cloud-based and hybrid-cloud solutions.

As well as experienced Architects, the client will also consider candidates that are more Azure infrastructure focused with some design experience looking for their first Architect role

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic influence across groups, projects and products to implement cost-effective technology solutions to solve complex business problems
• Engage in concept discussions, proposed technology solutions, to meet business objectives.
• Engage with senior leadership and project stakeholders to articulate opportunities, costs, and risks associated with decisions made around the platform architecture and implementation.
• Design and define cloud architectural solutions and oversee the implementations
• Participate in the development and continuous improvement of application and data architectures that are aligned to the business strategies and direction, technology architectures that enable the application and data architecture and development architectures that enable IT to develop business solutions in the most efficient and effective manner adhering to the IT Solution Design Principles.
• IT Governance: ensure that agreed standards and working practices are followed, highlight any non-conformance with agreed standards and working practices with the head of architecture and promote an environment that encourages collaboration, team working and innovation both within the Architecture Team and across IT and other teams

Experience

• A proven track record of working as a Cloud Architect delivering successful migration/greenfield projects
• Extensive experience delivering Azure based solutions
• An understanding and experience of implementing 3rd party SaaS solutions
• Proficient in designing, building and deploying infrastructure at a complex level
• Demonstrate extensive experience in the IT industry with expertise in all areas of cloud technologies specifically Microsoft Azure and Office 365.
• A broad understanding of the latest developments in technologies, industry specific issues, competitor and vendor activity and initiatives
• Experience in Cloud design, strategy and architecture related activities - ideally a cloud professional certified for the Azure/o365 platforms.
• Demonstrated ability in technology partner management practices including the ability to lead vendors/partners in defining architectures

This is an excellent opportunity to join a market leading organisation so please send your CV to Michael Moretti for immediate consideration.