Cloud Architect

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Guildford; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Ergomed Group seeks an experienced Cloud Architect to lead the Azure environment design, governance, and cost-effective operation. This hands-on role designs new and improves existing Azure projects, builds reusable deployment templates, and provides architectural reviews across the tenant.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into cloud solutions that meet Ergomed's standards, with emphasis on SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA compliance.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and running Azure environments.
• Hands-on cloud architecture or senior technical role.
• Deep Azure architecture expertise: landing zones, management groups, networking, identity, storage, compute, security.
• Proven ability to design and build reusable deployment templates using IaC (Terraform, Bicep, ARM).
• Strong understanding of Azure cost management: budgets, alerts, reservations, Advisor.
• Experience defining and enforcing cloud governance frameworks: Azure Policy, management groups, RBAC, tagging/naming standards.
• Experience maintaining compliance against SOC 2, ISO 27001, or HIPAA.
• Ability to translate architectural designs into operational requirements with IT Operations.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with complex cloud infra issues.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Familiarity with GxP and GAMP5 frameworks for regulated cloud systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead Azure project architectures and review designs for strong, repeatable foundations.
• Identify optimization opportunities, cost reduction strategies, and migration pathways to cloud environments.
• Drive improvements in Azure cost management: cost drivers, budgets and alerts, Advisor reviews, and reservations.
• Build and maintain reusable IaC templates and modules for consistent provisioning.
• Lead the identification and resolution of architecture gaps, risks, and blockers.
• Develop and maintain cloud governance frameworks, security policies, and compliance standards.
• Collaborate with DevOps, security, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into architectures.
• Define and maintain tagging, naming, and subscription-structure standards.
• Ensure compliance with SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA with evidence of controls.
• Oversee cloud deployments ensuring scalability, reliability, and disaster recovery.
• Establish best practices for monitoring, performance optimization, and automation.
• Provide guidance and mentorship on cloud architecture patterns.

Skills

Azure Architecture

IaC

Cloud Governance

Cost Management

Security Compliance

Stakeholder Communications

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Medicine moves forward here. So will you.

Clinical trials, safety studies, and audits make safe and innovative pharmaceutical-led care possible. As part of Ergomed Group, you help patients benefit so they experience more of life’s meaningful moments. Biopharmaceutical companies are our clients. Patients are our purpose.

Ergomed Group brings together Ergomed CRO, PrimeVigilance, Prudentia, and ADAMAS Consulting to help biopharmaceutical companies develop, deliver and safeguard therapies in oncology, rare disease and other complex areas of medicine. Across the Group, our teams turn the signals that clinical trials, safety systems and quality data generate into insight that helps bring safer treatments to patients around the world.

The science and analysis that guides our work is demanding. And this is where we excel. What defines us, though, is how we work together. Across countries, cultures and time zones, we bring kindness, curiosity and a shared sense of purpose to work that genuinely matters. Ideas are welcome here. Growth is expected. And every person has room to make a real difference to patients' lives.

Whether you are early in your career or bringing decades of experience, we want you to feel valued for what you do and for who you are. If that sounds like the place you have been looking for, we would love to hear from you.

Job Description

We're looking for an experienced Cloud Architect to join our organization. In this role, you will be responsible for the architecture, governance, and cost-effective operation of Ergomed's Cloud (Microsoft Azure) environment. This hands‑on role leads the design of new and improvements to existing Azure projects, builds reusable deployment templates and standards, and provides architectural review across the tenant — collaborating with project teams on solution design and standards, with IT stakeholders on demonstrable compliance (e.g. SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA), and with IT Operations on day‑to‑day support

• Lead the architecture of new and existing Azure projects, recommending solutions and reviewing designs to ensure strong, repeatable foundations tailored to meet organizational requirements and business objectives
• Analyze current infrastructure and applications to identify optimization opportunities, cost reduction strategies, and migration pathways to cloud environments
• Drive improvements in Azure cost management: cost drivers, budgets and alerts, Advisor reviews, and reservation/commitment strategies.
• Build and maintain reusable project templates and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules so new workloads are provisioned consistently and correctly.
• Lead the identification and resolution of architecture gaps, risks, and blockers surfaced through ongoing tenant review, working with relevant teams to close them.
• Develop, implement and maintain cloud governance frameworks, security policies, and compliance standards to ensure adherence to industry regulations and organizational standards
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams including DevOps engineers, security specialists, and business stakeholders to translate business requirements into solution architectures that meets Ergomed's cloud standards and updating those standards where required
• Lead the identification and resolution of architecture gaps, risks, and blockers surfaced through ongoing tenant review, working with relevant teams to close them.
• Define and maintain tagging, naming, and subscription‑structure standards, driving their consistent adoption across the tenant.
• Work with IT Security and workload teams to achieve and maintain demonstrable compliance (e.g. SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA), putting the right controls in place so compliance status can be evidenced at any time.
• Evaluate and recommend cloud technologies, tools, and services that align with organizational needs, including containerization platforms, orchestration systems, and infrastructure‑as‑code solutions
• Oversee cloud infrastructure deployments, ensuring scalability, reliability, and disaster recovery capabilities are properly implemented and tested
• Establish best practices for cloud resource management, including monitoring, performance optimization, and automated provisioning
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to development and operations teams on cloud architecture patterns and cloud‑native application design

Qualifications

**Required Qualifications:**

• Extensive experiencein IT infrastructure, systems engineering, or cloud architecture, with significant hands‑on experience designing and running Azure environments.
• Demonstratedexperience in a cloud architecture or senior technical role
• Deep, hands‑on Azure architecture expertise: landing zones, management groups, networking, identity, storage, compute, and security.
• Proven ability to design and build reusable deployment templates using Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Bicep, Terraform, ARM).
• Strong understanding of Azure cost management: cost drivers, budgets and alerts, reservations/savings plans, and Azure Advisor
• Experience defining and enforcing cloud governance frameworks: Azure Policy, management groups, RBAC, and tagging/naming standards.
• Experience maintaining compliance against frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, or HIPAA, including control implementation and audit evidence.
• Ability to translate architectural designs into operational requirements, working with IT Operations on support models.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with a track record of resolving complex cloud infrastructure issues.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, able to explain technical trade‑offs to non‑technical audiences.
• Familiarity with GxP and GAMP5 frameworks, and experience supporting regulated (validated) cloud systems.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

• Experience with multi‑cloud strategies and hybrid cloud architectures
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and container orchestration platforms
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Experience with cloud cost optimization and FinOps principles
• Experience with serverless architectures and microservices design patterns
• Background in enterprise application migration and modernization projects

Additional Information

When you join Ergomed Group, you make a difference by helping to bring safe and effective pharmaceutical treatment to patients around the world. You’ll join a passionate and collaborative team of experts in clinical research, pharmacovigilance, and quality consulting.

We are diverse in many ways, yet our values unite us. Our values are how we work, not words on a wall. If they sound like you, you will feel at home here.

• Quality: we hold ourselves to the standard patients deserve.
• Integrity and trust: we do the right thing, especially when it is hard.
• Drive and passion: we care about the outcome, because someone is waiting on it.
• Agility and responsiveness: we move quickly, because patients cannot wait.
• Belonging: everyone is welcome, and every voice counts.
• Collaborative partnerships: we go further by going together.

We look forward to welcoming your application.