Azure Cloud Solution Architect — AI & Modernisation

Hastings Direct; Bexhill-on-Sea; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary + car allowance

Flexible working

Bonus scheme

Private Medical Insurance (PMI)

Pension & life cover

Mental wellbeing program

27 days annual leave

Job summary

Hastings Direct is seeking a Solution Architect to design and govern cloud-first architectures across multiple platforms, focusing on security, resiliency, and cost. You will lead architecture decisions and collaborate with business and engineering stakeholders to translate opportunities into pragmatic target solutions.

You will join a fast-paced AI delivery cycle, shaping patterns and integration approaches, while promoting re-use and alignment to architecture principles.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience designing and governing solutions on Microsoft Azure (security, resiliency, cost).
• Modernising application landscapes using contemporary architecture patterns.
• Practical AI capability experience—identifying use cases and enabling/building solutions.

Responsibilities

• Shape cloud-first architectures across multiple platforms and services.
• Lead technical assessments and architecture decisions; set direction on patterns and integration.
• Translate opportunities and challenges into pragmatic target solutions with stakeholders.

Skills

Microsoft Azure

Architectural patterns

AI capabilities

Communication & stakeholder mgmt

CIO group collaboration

Tools

Azure

Job description

Hastings Direct is seeking a Solution Architect to design and govern cloud-first architectures across multiple platforms, focusing on security, resiliency, and cost. You will lead architecture decisions and collaborate with business and engineering stakeholders to translate opportunities into pragmatic target solutions.

You will join a fast-paced AI delivery cycle, shaping patterns and integration approaches, while promoting re-use and alignment to architecture principles.