Lead Azure Solution Architect - West London

Adecco; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency in the UK seeks a Lead Azure Solution Architect to lead a significant transformation within a technology organization. This role involves defining the architectural vision, bridging cloud-native platforms with enterprise systems, and mentoring teams on architectural maturity. Candidates should have extensive experience in architecture leadership, integrating enterprise systems, and working with Azure and AWS.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in a senior architecture leadership role.
• Proven track record of driving architectural transformation.
• Deep expertise in enterprise integration and hybrid architecture.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the enterprise-wide architecture strategy.
• Establish an architectural vision aligned with commercial objectives.
• Champion modernization of Legacy environments.

Skills

Architectural transformation

Enterprise integration

Microservices

API-first

Leadership

Azure

AWS

Communication skills

Job description

Overview

Lead Azure Solution Architect - Enterprise & Cloud Integration. Location: London - 5 days on-site. Salary: £80,000 per annum. Type: Permanent.

My client is looking to recruit an accomplished Lead Azure Solution Architect to drive a pivotal transformation in their technology organisation. This is a strategic and highly influential role, where you will define the architectural vision, enable product teams, and bridge modern cloud-native platforms with core enterprise systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the enterprise-wide architecture strategy supporting the transition from stack-centric IT to product-led, outcome-focused delivery.
• Establish an architectural vision aligned with commercial objectives, customer experience goals, and operational scalability.
• Design and govern integration patterns between modern cloud platforms, distributed retail/wholesale sites.
• Champion modernisation of Legacy environments, enabling core enterprise capabilities (pricing, inventory, fulfilment) to be consumed via APIs and event-driven interfaces.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior technology and business leaders, shaping product strategy through architecture.
• Define and embed architecture principles, standards, and guardrails to support autonomous product teams.
• Lead initiatives to transition delivery teams to product-aligned operating models, creating scalable architectural patterns and platforms that accelerate delivery.
• Ensure non-functional requirements—including security, observability, resilience, and performance—are embedded in product and platform design.
• Oversee architectural governance in a way that enables delivery rather than constrains it.
• Mentor and coach solution architects and senior engineers, raising the overall architectural maturity.
• Play a leading role in architecture forums, communities of practice, and design reviews.

Candidate Profile

• Extensive experience as a Lead Solution Architect, Principal Architect, or similar senior architecture leadership role.
• Proven track record of driving architectural transformation, ideally moving from stack- or project-centric models to product- and outcome-driven architectures.
• Deep expertise in enterprise integration and hybrid architecture.
• Strong understanding of modern architectural paradigms: domain-driven design, event-driven architecture, microservices, API-first.
• Experience shaping and scaling architectures on Azure AND AWS.
• Exceptional communication and influencing skills with C-level, business stakeholders, and engineering teams.
• Strong leadership experience guiding teams through large-scale technical and organisational change.
• Exposure to platform engineering, DevOps, or data architecture.