Cloud Solutions Architect

Office for Nuclear Regulation; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 59,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

A governmental regulatory body in the UK is seeking a Cloud Solutions Architect to own technical solutions and bridge the gap between technical and business functions. The ideal candidate will have significant experience with Azure and M365, strong stakeholder management skills, and a Microsoft certification. This role offers a salary of £59,151 to £68,344, flexible working, a Civil Service Pension scheme, and career development opportunities.

Benefits

Civil Service Pension scheme

Flexible working hours

Personal development plan

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Generous holiday entitlement

Qualifications

• Significant experience in designing cloud solutions.
• Experience developing high and low-level solution designs.
• Ability to work with technical teams to recommend solutions.

Responsibilities

• Own technical solutions as a Cloud Solutions Architect.
• Combine guidance from various enterprise architecture viewpoints.
• Define, validate, and promote quality solutions.

Skills

Microsoft-certified Azure Solutions Architect

Designing cloud solutions

Implementing Azure and M365 solutions

Stakeholder management

Understanding of non-functional requirements

Education

Professional qualifications in Azure

Tools

ARM templates

BICEP

Terraform

Job description

We're a cloud-only organisation using Azure and the Power platform to centralise all data and create a single source of truth. An entire Microsoft ecosystem at your fingertips, giving you the chance to change and influence what we do. So, you'll see your impact from day one.

As our Cloud Solutions Architect, you'll own technical solutions. You'll combine guidance from different enterprise architecture viewpoints – business, information and technical – with a focus on bridging the gap between the technical and business functions. We'll look to you to expertly define, validate and promote quality solutions for each opportunity or project, and look for real areas of benefit that support business outcomes.

The person

A Microsoft-certified Azure Solutions Architect, you'll have significant experience in designing and implementing cloud solutions, both Azure and M365. Your background will also include developing both high and low-level solution designs incorporating business, application, data and security requirements, and knowledge of ARM templates, BICEP/Terraform or similar tools.

You’ll understand non-functional requirements, technical documents and business cases, and know how to assess current systems architecture and work with technical teams to recommend solutions. Your strong stakeholder management skills will come into play when allowing for updates in product development processes, costs and budgets, and communicating well at all levels. You’ll share our values of being accountable, open, fair-minded and supportive too.

Our mission is to protect society by securing safe nuclear operations. Our staff are drawn from a wide range of professional backgrounds with specialist inspectors to deliver our core business including civil engineering, radiological protection, human factors, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering and nuclear physics. And together they're involved in everything from assessing safety cases, inspecting nuclear sites, communicating our decisions, training new recruits and representing the UK and ONR within the wider international nuclear community.

£59,151 – £68,344 (in addition a market rate allowance may be available plus £4,052 London Weighting allowance if it applies), you can look forward to a substantial Civil Service Pension scheme (including ill‑health retirement and lump sum family benefits). There's also flexible working hours and patterns, competency pay and a personal development plan which gives you a clear path, learning opportunities including professional qualifications and further education, family‑friendly policies, a range of health and wellbeing initiatives plus generous holiday entitlement.