The RoleYou’ll be responsible for defining and overseeing enterprise Azure architectures, from initial strategy and design through to implementation and ongoing optimisation.

Key areas of responsibility will include:

• Architecting and designing enterprise-scale Azure platforms.
• Defining and evolving Azure Landing Zone strategies and shared-service architectures.
• Establishing Infrastructure as Code standards and automation-led engineering practices.
• Providing technical leadership and mentoring to infrastructure and platform engineering teams.
• Facilitating cloud strategy sessions, technical workshops and migration-readiness assessments.
• Designing and overseeing major infrastructure transformation initiatives, including data-centre exit and re-platforming programmes.
• Carrying out Azure Well-Architected Framework reviews and establishing appropriate governance and security controls.
• Ensuring solutions align with UK Government requirements, security classifications and relevant industry standards.
• Communicating complex architectural concepts to senior technical stakeholders and C-suite audiences.
• Supporting bids, proposals and pre-sales activity while helping to develop the wider cloud architecture capability.

What We’re Looking For

You’ll ideally bring:

• 8+ years’ experience in IT infrastructure, including at least 5 years focused on Azure platform engineering/architecture.
• Current UK Government Security Clearance.
• Proven experience leading and mentoring engineering teams.
• Strong experience delivering large-scale cloud migrations and data-centre exit programmes.
• Expert knowledge of the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework and Azure Well-Architected Framework.
• Experience providing guidance around the NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Confidence working directly with clients and operating within consulting environments.
• Strong written and verbal English.
• Relevant Azure certifications, particularly AZ-305.

Technical Expertise

Strong hands-on knowledge across the following areas is essential:

• Bicep and Terraform
• Azure Landing Zones
• Hub-and-spoke and Virtual WAN networking
• ExpressRoute, Azure Firewall and Application Gateway
• Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC and PIM
• Azure Policy, Management Groups and subscription architecture
• Azure Migrate and associated discovery tooling
• Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Sentinel
• Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and KQL
• Zero Trust architecture
• High availability and disaster recovery
• FinOps and cloud cost optimisation
• Use of GitHub Copilot to accelerate Infrastructure as Code development

The Person

We’re looking for someone who is both an architect and an engineer — someone who can set the technical direction while remaining close enough to delivery to understand what works in practice.

You’ll be:

• A hands-on technical leader who leads by example.
• Comfortable taking ownership of complex technical challenges.
• Pragmatic, commercially aware and focused on achieving outcomes.
• A confident communicator who can engage equally well with engineers, architects and senior executives.
• Comfortable operating in customer-facing environments and translating business requirements into practical technical solutions.
• If you’re an experienced Azure architect looking for the opportunity to shape enterprise cloud platforms, lead technical teams and work on complex transformation programmes, we’d be keen to hear from you.