Azure Cloud Architect — Cloud & Security Leader

Thales; Crawley; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Thales UK is seeking a senior architect to lead the design and governance of cloud, infrastructure and network architectures within UK TrustNest. You will steer platform teams, set standards and build scalable solutions that align with security, data protection and risk management goals.

As part of the leadership team, you will mentor engineers, collaborate across projects and drive secure DevSecOps practices, ensuring accreditation milestones and adherence to Thales' reference architectures.

Qualifications

• In depth and demonstrable experience in technical security support across multiple systems and applications.
• Evidence as subject matter expert in evaluating and implementing security products for IaC and Azure cloud environments.
• Ability to provide analytical advice on security implications of changes to systems/applications.
• Ability to interpret complex technical information to inform security decisions.

Responsibilities

• Act as an industry expert in cloud, infrastructure, and network technologies.
• Lead the platform team with guidance and SME input.
• Design and architect next generation architectures across storage, compute, network, containers and cloud-native apps.
• Build solution architectures aligning requirements, reference architectures, design patterns and standards.
• Lead collaboration with project teams and enterprise architects to deploy architectures.
• Develop extensible architectures enabling future technology agility.
• Provide strategic support to staffing teams and stakeholders with governance and design principles.
• Research and recommend technical approaches for solving architectural problems.
• Provide technical and governance direction to internal and external implementation teams.
• Participate in vendor RFPs, tool selection and sourcing negotiations.
• Analyse business processes and data flows to inform solutions.
• Weigh risk, ROI, schedule and budget for solution recommendations.
• Ensure projects align with information reference architecture and standards.
• Define and maintain reference architectures.
• Lead IT strategies and roadmaps within the cloud domain.
• Communicate and influence towards future state architectures.
• Maintain technology strategy, roadmaps, and engineering implementations.
• Ensure enterprise standards are followed while advising across projects.
• Explore new technologies and drive innovation with the business.
• Create training materials and technical position papers for delivery teams.
• Support business case development.
• Lead vulnerability management with Secure by Design principles.
• Develop security requirements and epics with governance for data protection.
• Work with teams to ensure security assurance and risk appetite alignment.
• Embed security as everyone's responsibility within the development team.
• Support delivery of technical security measures for accreditations.
• Be central point of contact for UK Digital Competency Centre security matters.
• Develop risk assessments and remedial action in line with Secure by Design.

Skills

Security architecture

Cloud security

DevSecOps

Tools

Terraform

Azure

Kubernetes

Job description

Thales UK is seeking a senior architect to lead the design and governance of cloud, infrastructure and network architectures within UK TrustNest. You will steer platform teams, set standards and build scalable solutions that align with security, data protection and risk management goals.

As part of the leadership team, you will mentor engineers, collaborate across projects and drive secure DevSecOps practices, ensuring accreditation milestones and adherence to Thales' reference architectures.