Azure Application Architect: Lead Architecture & Resilience

TyneStack Ltd; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Autonomy to shape architecture

Job summary

TyneStack Ltd in Newcastle upon Tyne is seeking a Senior Azure Application Architect to lead the ongoing evolution of our Azure-based application estate. This role combines hands-on architectural leadership with strategic direction to improve resilience, security, performance, and cost efficiency.

You will review existing platforms, set architectural standards and influence longer term technical direction across Development, DevOps and Security teams.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial Microsoft Azure architecture experience.
• Strong software engineering background, ideally C# and .NET
• Experience designing and supporting cloud based applications and distributed systems

Responsibilities

• Own the ongoing review and evolution of Azure application architecture
• Assess existing platforms for architectural robustness, resilience and technical risk
• Identify improvements across security, performance, scalability, reliability and cost
• Establish architectural standards, principles and longer term technical direction
• Develop pragmatic remediation plans rather than large scale rewrites
• Work across Development, DevOps, Security and Product to implement architectural improvements
• Improve application resilience, observability, monitoring and disaster recovery
• Provide hands on technical leadership across application and platform initiatives
• Develop a longer term architectural roadmap as the wider application estate is assessed

Skills

Azure architecture

C# / .NET

Cloud apps

Distributed systems

APIs & microservices

Tools

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

Job description

TyneStack Ltd in Newcastle upon Tyne is seeking a Senior Azure Application Architect to lead the ongoing evolution of our Azure-based application estate. This role combines hands-on architectural leadership with strategic direction to improve resilience, security, performance, and cost efficiency.

You will review existing platforms, set architectural standards and influence longer term technical direction across Development, DevOps and Security teams.