Azure Solutions Architect: Cloud-Native & API-Driven

Conferma; Manchester; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus 10%

Salary sacrifice pension

Life Assurance

Private medical scheme

25 days leave + bank holidays

Birthday leave

Job summary

Conferma is seeking a Solutions Architect to design scalable, secure, cloud-native solutions that align with our strategic goals in Azure and .NET. You will own end-to-end architecture for major initiatives, guiding delivery teams and defining ADRs and C4 diagrams to ensure strong governance.

This is a role in a collaborative Architecture team driving API-first, event-driven designs and a focus on security and reliability.

Qualifications

• Strong background in Microsoft .NET and Azure cloud technologies.
• Experience designing RESTful APIs and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with microservices and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience producing architecture documentation, including C4 models and ADRs.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end solution architecture for strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment with business goals and technology strategy.
• Translate business requirements into scalable, secure and maintainable solution designs.
• Provide technical leadership throughout delivery, guiding engineering teams and ensuring architectural best practice.
• Lead technical discovery, solution design, feasibility assessments and architecture governance.
• Design cloud-native solutions on Microsoft Azure, balancing performance, resilience, scalability and cost.
• Define and validate non-functional requirements, including security, observability and reliability.
• Drive platform modernisation through cloud-native technologies, automation, AI-assisted engineering and API-first, event-driven architecture.
• Produce and maintain architecture artefacts, including ADRs and C4 diagrams.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, lead proof of concepts and influence future technology direction.
• Coach engineers and collaborate with product, delivery and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions.

Skills

Microsoft .NET

Azure

RESTful APIs

Event-driven architecture

Microservices

Security principles

Architecture documentation

Agile delivery

Influencing decisions

Tools

C4 models

Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)

Job description

Conferma is seeking a Solutions Architect to design scalable, secure, cloud-native solutions that align with our strategic goals in Azure and .NET. You will own end-to-end architecture for major initiatives, guiding delivery teams and defining ADRs and C4 diagrams to ensure strong governance.

This is a role in a collaborative Architecture team driving API-first, event-driven designs and a focus on security and reliability.