Azure Architect — Remote Cloud Platform Lead

Hitachi Solutions; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Solutions Europe is a global Digital, Data and Technology consultancy delivering Azure-enabled solutions. We are growing our consulting team and seek an Azure Architect to lead enterprise-scale Azure platforms and strategic cloud initiatives for client projects.

The role involves architecture leadership, governance, and collaboration with C-suite stakeholders, while mentoring engineers and shaping landing zones, security, and migration readiness.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable, significant experience in IT infrastructure, with 5+ years on Azure platform engineering.
• Security Cleared, or eligible for UK Security Clearance.
• Experience leading and mentoring engineering teams.
• Experience of large scale migrations and data centre exits.
• Expert understanding of the Cloud Adoption and Well Architected Frameworks.
• Experience advising on the NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Confident in client facing and consulting situations.
• Good written and spoken English.
• Azure Migrate and discovery tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and design of enterprise scale Azure platforms.
• Establish and refine Azure Landing Zone strategy and shared service models.
• Set Infrastructure as Code standards and automation first principles.
• Lead and mentor a team of infrastructure and platform engineers.
• Run cloud strategy workshops and migration readiness assessments.
• Design and oversee data centre exits and re-platforming programmes.
• Conduct Well Architected Framework reviews and implement governance guardrails.
• Align designs with UK Government standards and security classifications.
• Present platform architectures to technical and C suite stakeholders.
• Support pre sales, proposals and the growth of the capability.

Skills

Azure architecture

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

Security clearance eligible

Cloud cost optimisation

Well-Architected Framework

Infrastructure as Code

English proficiency

NCSC framework knowledge

Azure Migrate

Tools

Bicep

Terraform

GitHub Copilot

Azure Monitor

KQL

Azure Migrate

Job description

Hitachi Solutions Europe is a global Digital, Data and Technology consultancy delivering Azure-enabled solutions. We are growing our consulting team and seek an Azure Architect to lead enterprise-scale Azure platforms and strategic cloud initiatives for client projects.

The role involves architecture leadership, governance, and collaboration with C-suite stakeholders, while mentoring engineers and shaping landing zones, security, and migration readiness.