Enterprise Architect

Beat My Salary; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in cloud services is seeking a Cloud Architect to lead the design and implementation of Azure solutions. The successful candidate will have a strong technical background in cloud technologies and will be responsible for mentoring teams and driving technical engagements with clients. This role offers the opportunity to work at the forefront of cloud architecture, ensuring the successful delivery of innovative solutions to clients.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Professional development opportunities

Health insurance

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of computing technologies and emerging trends.
• Experience with cloud solutions, particularly Azure.
• Prior work in consulting/architecture roles.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build new solutions on Microsoft Azure.
• Mentor and guide teams on architectural best practices.
• Engage with clients to fulfill their cloud deployment needs.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

Azure

Networking

Security

Virtualization

Automation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

PowerShell

Chef

Puppet

Kubernetes

Job description

Role and Responsibilities:

• Consult with Persistent clients to build and architect new solutions, data center migrations, and scaling their adoption of Microsoft Azure.
• Review and evaluate architectures of existing systems and software products to identify reuse and platforming opportunities as well as refactoring opportunities.
• Provide technical leadership, guidance, and assistance to the teams in the implementation of established architectures and designs.
• Mentor and coach architects and developers to ensure that architecture and requirements best practices are followed.
• Establish and enforce quality standards for cloud software architectures.
• Drive high priority customer initiatives on Cloud/ Datacenter in collaboration with customers and Persistent sales team.
• The role is a technical, customer facing role that is accountable for the end-to-end customer cloud deployment experience.
• Own the Azure technical customer engagement including: developing the architectural design on specific implementation projects and/or Proofs of Concepts, and Cloud solution architecture components of customer facing contract bid responses.
• Assess Azure/ Datacenter footprint readiness for deployment activities.

Technical Skills:

• Deep understanding of computing technologies, business drivers, and emerging computing trends.
• Deep technical experience in infrastructure design including private and public cloud, networking, virtualization, identity, security and storage.
• Understanding of how to build resilient multi-site architectures.
• Hands-on with tools & methods in capability, business transformation delivery, sizing & estimations.
• Experience with Windows, Linux and Unix platforms.
• Experience with configuration management and automation technologies such as PowerShell DSC, Chef, ARM Templates, and Puppet is preferred.
• Working knowledge with AGILE development, SCRUM and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) with one or more of the following programming languages: PowerShell, Bash, .Net, .Net Core, Java, JSON, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby on Rails is preferred.
• Required: Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, ExpressRoute, Azure Active Directory, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Backup, Azure Storage, Networking and Security Solutions, ARM Templates, JSON scripting, Windows and/ or Linux administration, Azure App Services, Orchestration, Kubernetes, and Containers (Docker).
• Preferred: Azure Cloud Native Azure Integration Services (Logic Apps, API Management, Service Bus & Event Grid) Azure SQL Database, Azure Web Jobs, MySQL, SQL Server, SQL Server IaaS, SharePoint on Azure, Hyper-V, VMWare, System Center, firewalls, Web App proxies, Bash, BGP, Chef, Puppet, OSS Technologies, Powershell scripting, Operations Management Suite (OMS).

Non-Technical Skills:

• Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with senior executives and growing cloud consumption shares in large or highly strategic accounts.
• Proven track record of driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through.
• Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences.
• Prior work experience in a Consulting/Architecture position within a software and/ or services company.
• Problem-solving mentality leveraging internal and/or external resources.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication Certifications.
• Experience as a team lead in consultative role on customer engagements involving software application projects.
• Ability to be hands-on in leadership roles as well as manage others to execute and deliver project deliverables.