Lead Cloud Architect

Liberty Global; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading telecommunications company is seeking an experienced Lead Cloud Architect to drive cloud transformation strategies. This role involves developing cloud architectures for foundational services and requires extensive experience in GCP or AWS environments. A competitive salary, hybrid working, and various benefits are offered. This position is essential for those passionate about cloud technology and looking to impact within a skilled team.

Benefits

Competitive salary + Bonus

25 days annual leave

Wellbeing and mental health benefits

Matched pension contribution

Access to career development resources

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in lead cloud architecture roles.
• Expertise in large, complex enterprise hybrid cloud environments.
• Ability to mentor junior team members and build collaborative culture.

Responsibilities

• Drive cloud architecture designs for landing zones and foundational services.
• Provide consultancy to application owners and markets.
• Define technology principles and standards for cloud adoption.

Skills

Cloud architecture expertise (GCP or AWS)

Technical leadership

Cloud migration experience

DevOps patterns and tooling

Integration of on-premise and public cloud

Conducting Well-Architected reviews

Education

AWS or GCP cloud certification

Job description

ABOUT US

We’re building Tomorrow’s Connections Today, bringing people together through the power of our technology.

Liberty Global is a world leader in converged broadband, video and mobile communications and an active investor in cutting‑edge infrastructure, content and technology ventures.

With our investments in fibre‑based and 5G networks we play a vital role in society, currently providing over 85 million fixed and mobile connections and rolling out the next generation of products and services, while readying our networks for 10 Gbps and beyond.

We’re creating national champions, combining the best broadband and mobile networks under brands such as Virgin Media‑02 in the UK, VodafoneZiggo in the Netherlands, Telenet in Belgium, Sunrise in Switzerland, Virgin Media in Ireland and UPC in Slovakia.

Liberty Global Ventures, our global investment arm, has a portfolio of more than 75 companies and funds across content, technology and infrastructure, including strategic stakes in ITV, Univision, Plume, Lionsgate and the Formula E racing series.

Our scale enables us to transfer knowledge and expertise across our operations and investments, creating a dynamic family of brands united in the pursuit of innovation and excellence.

And we’re prioritising diversity, equity and inclusion in our workplace and communities, while reducing our impact on the environment. We are using technology as a force for good; for our people, our partners and the planet.

JOB PURPOSE

Liberty Global operates across a landscape involving an interesting mix of technology domains covering both the cloud native and enterprise spaces. These include customer‑facing entertainment and connectivity services, back‑office IT, network virtualisation and edge computing domains.

We are currently looking for a highly motivated and experienced Lead Cloud Architect to help us realise our Cloud Transformation strategy. This is an excellent opportunity to work in a highly skilled and motivated team with a growth mindset!

As a Lead Cloud Architect, joining the Cloud Strategy, Architecture and Transformation team, you will be responsible for developing, driving and maintaining the architecture and designs for our landing zones and key foundational services. You will own cloud technology roadmaps and have a significant role in shaping and pressure‑testing the cloud strategy. You will provide technical expertise and technical leadership to the infrastructure and application teams for a variety of cloud projects, technologies and services. Create end‑to‑end cloud architecture solutions in a complex, large‑scale landscape, across a number of domains, including large‑scale Edge Computing, ICT and Network Virtualisation platforms.

We would love you to be passionate about cloud adoption and help us create a culture of ownership, collaboration and continuous improvement within, as well as beyond the team!

Location and travel

This role is quite flexible around location (hybrid working). There will be team meetings in our UK or NL offices (dependent on which is your closest location). This is currently once or twice a fortnight. Some occasional travel will also be involved.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Technical Design Authority (and tech lead) for GCP or AWS foundational services / landing zones, including aspects such as cloud connectivity & networking, governance, security, cloud economics and enterprise IT integration
• Provide expert cloud consultancy services to application owners and markets, creating end‑to‑end solution architectures where applicable
• Define cloud technology principles, standards, guidelines, and reference models, for adoption across the business
• Contribute to the cloud technology roadmaps and play a key role in shaping our cloud strategy
• Support business case development, cloud migration and adoption initiatives
• Work with LG Ventures in assessing emerging technologies / companies and in carrying out due diligence on them
• Help build a collaborative and transparent culture of continuous improvement, within the team and across domains, while mentoring junior team members

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE

Essential skills & abilities

• Extensive experience in a Lead Cloud Architect (GCP or AWS) or similar role, in a large, complex enterprise within a hybrid cloud environment
• Extensive experience and expertise in cloud architecture & technologies (GCP or AWS), including governance pillars, core cloud services), having applied these to complex and large‑scale projects.
• Proven technical leadership capabilities, a coaching / collaborative style of working.
• Ability to conduct Well‑Architected reviews (or similar) for workload owners
• Experience integrating enterprise / on‑premise platforms with public cloud (including connectivity aspects)
• Extensive experience in applying architecture and technology skills to cloud transformation & migration projects
• Extensive experience of Cloud Native, DevOps patterns and tooling (including IaC )
• Expert domain knowledge of the latest cloud offerings, business models, technologies and the commercial and technical advantages these enable

Desirable skills & abilities

• Experience in a Telco environment
• Experience with Edge computing and NFV / CNF, ideally in a mobile or fixed line context
• Programming / software development experience

PREFERRED EDUCATION / QUALIFICATIONS

• AWS or GCP cloud certification preffered

UK : BENEFITS

• Competitive salary + Bonus
• 25 days annual leave with the option to purchase 5 more
• Access to wellbeing and mental health benefits such as the Calm app, personal medical, critical illness cover and dental insurance
• Matched pension contribution up to 10%
• Access to our car benefit scheme
• Free access to LinkedIn Learning & Coursera to continue to develop and grow your career with us

NL : BENEFITS

• Competitive salary + Bonus
• 25 days annual leave with the option to purchase 5 more
• Company pension contribution
• Subsidy on health insurance premium
• Free access to LinkedIn Learning & Coursera to continue to develop and grow your career with us
• Free public transport subscription that can be used for both work and leisure travel on all modes of public transport, anywhere in the Netherlands.
• Hybrid Working
• Company Laptop, Mobile and Phone Subscription
• Free premium subscription to Calm – a renowned well‑being & meditation app

Liberty Global is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for our people. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process. We’re 100% committed to having a workforce that represents every part of our society. So we’re keen to hear from candidates of all background and circumstances.