Azure Solutions Architect

£90,000 – £104,000 £5500 Car allowance, 10% bonus

Location: United Kingdom Type: Permanent Skills: Azure, Active Directory, Power BI, Powershell, Infrastructure as code, Devops, Deploy

About the job

Job Title: Cloud Solution Architect

Location: Canary Wharf, London (with a network of 20 offices nationally)

Salary: Up to £104,000 (DOE)

About Us: Our Enterprise Wide Technology (EWT) team, comprising over 450 technologists and specialists, ensures seamless technology operations. We pride ourselves on supporting our clients through various economic and regulatory environments.

Role Overview: As a Cloud Solution Architect within our Audit Technology Architecture team, you will be pivotal in delivering project-based technical design artefacts. You'll collaborate with business stakeholders and colleagues to develop solutions and services that empower our Audit practice to deliver industry-leading services.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with various roles and disciplines to achieve desired business outcomes.
• Create and manage design materials essential for new solution delivery and ensure proper transition into build activities.
• Provide cost-effective and commercially aware budgetary control and management for design recommendations.
• Lead the implementation and deployment of Azure solutions, offering technical oversight throughout the process.
• Support team members in dialogues with the business, contributing to business cases, budgetary forecasts, and project estimates.

What We Need:

• A passion for Architecture with a minimum of 6 months experience in a design capacity.
• Proven ability to identify and implement technical efficiencies within agreed solutions.
• Demonstrable experience deploying services within Azure.
• Extensive experience with MS technologies (Windows Server, SQL, AD, DNS, File Services, Clustering, etc.).
• Strong grasp of cloud computing concepts, infrastructure-as-code, PowerShell, and DevOps principles.
• Awareness of systems thinking, considering security, cost, and continual improvement.
• Experience with M365 Technologies (Power BI, Power Platform, SharePoint Online) and Azure Technologies (Azure AD, Azure App Gateway, Azure SQL, Azure VMs, etc.).
• Knowledge of networking technologies in both on-prem and cloud contexts and identity management.
• Proficiency in Microsoft toolsets/technologies.

Skills We'd Love to See:

• Minimum of 5 years in engineering roles with solution design experience.
• Experience in a wide base of technologies.
• Highly desirable certifications: AZ-104 / AZ-400, AZ-303/304/305.

Reference: AMC/JMR/CSA