Azure Solution Architect - Platform & Security

RSM UK; Ipswich; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid and Flexible working

26 Days Holiday

Lifestyle, Health and Wellbeing

Access to on-demand courses

Job summary

RSM UK is seeking a Technical Solution Architect to ensure solutions on our shared Azure platform are sound, secure and aligned with architecture standards. You’ll operate across technical architecture, solution architecture and assurance, with balance shifting to project priorities and Enterprise Architecture needs.

You will contribute to landing zones, identity, key management and policy while translating business requirements into end‑to‑end designs and evidence-based recommendations.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on experience designing and delivering solutions on Microsoft Azure.
• Ability to read and assess application code, infrastructure-as-code and pipeline configuration, including technologies such as C#/.NET, Python or Terraform.
• Strong knowledge of Azure landing zones, networking and private connectivity, Entra ID, managed identities, RBAC, Key Vault and Azure Policy - or equivalent alternative Cloud components.
• Sound understanding of CI/CD, environment promotion, release controls, threat modelling, secure development, resilience, observability and cost management.
• Experience applying architecture standards, principles and controls consistently and objectively in a federated or multi-team environment.
• Ability to form evidence-based technical judgements and produce clear, precise and well-structured designs, findings and recommendations.
• Methodical, detail-oriented approach to analysis, problem-solving and stakeholder communication.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain technical reference architectures, reusable patterns and standards across Azure platform, infrastructure, integration, identity, networking and data services.
• Contribute to the evolution of the shared Azure platform, including landing zones, private connectivity, identity and access, key management, policy and non-functional requirements.
• Assess technologies and investigate complex performance, resilience, security, operability and cost issues, producing evidence-based recommendations and remediations.
• Maintain technical architecture artefacts, including platform roadmaps, standards documentation and technology and software asset information.
• Translate business and functional requirements into secure end-to-end designs covering components, integrations, data flows, hosting and non-functional needs.
• Produce clear solution designs, diagrams, options appraisals and Architecture Decision Records, evaluating build, buy and SaaS options with explicit trade-offs.
• Promote reuse of approved platform services, integration routes and data patterns; identify risks and dependencies early and guide delivery teams through implementation.
• Review innovation and in-flight solutions against agreed standards, principles and guardrails using code, infrastructure-as-code, pipeline configuration and design artefacts as evidence.
• Apply a consistent review method and produce concise, actionable findings that distinguish guardrail breaches from design preferences and point teams towards approved patterns.
• Track findings and exceptions through to resolution, record approved deviations and provide written assurance input to the Architecture Review Board.
• Help shape the assurance capability by improving criteria, checklists, templates and guardrails, and by identifying controls that can move from manual review into platform policy or pipeline gates.

Skills

Azure architecture

Code review & read code

Stakeholder communication

Problem solving

Tools

C#/.NET

Python

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Job description

RSM UK is seeking a Technical Solution Architect to ensure solutions on our shared Azure platform are sound, secure and aligned with architecture standards. You’ll operate across technical architecture, solution architecture and assurance, with balance shifting to project priorities and Enterprise Architecture needs.

You will contribute to landing zones, identity, key management and policy while translating business requirements into end‑to‑end designs and evidence-based recommendations.