Lead Platform Cloud Architect – Azure & Modernisation

GCS; Birmingham; Híbrido; GBP 83.000 - 138.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

GCS is seeking a Lead Platform Cloud Architect to shape enterprise-scale cloud platforms and modernisation across a complex global environment. The role is hybrid in the UK (Sheffield or Birmingham) and contract Inside IR35, offering leadership across platform engineering and architecture teams.

You will drive cloud adoption, specify guidelines, and translate business needs into scalable technical solutions, while ensuring security, compliance, and governance.

Formación

• Proven experience in Cloud/Platform/Enterprise Architecture roles.
• Strong expertise in Microsoft Azure and cloud-native technologies.
• Experience delivering large-scale infrastructure or cloud transformation programmes.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
• CI/CD and DevOps practices.
• IAM and RBAC concepts.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication.
• Experience in complex, enterprise-scale environments.

Responsabilidades

• Design and develop enterprise-scale cloud architectures.
• Create cloud modernisation roadmaps aligned with strategy.
• Lead infrastructure design across compute, networking, storage, security, and containers.
• Provide architectural governance and policy compliance.
• Engage senior stakeholders to translate requirements.
• Develop reusable architecture patterns and practices.
• Support cloud adoption and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with engineering, operations, security, and delivery teams.
• Produce architecture documentation and roadmaps.
• Contribute to incident resolution and provide expert guidance.

Conocimientos

Cloud Architecture

Azure

Terraform

CI/CD

Security & IAM

RBAC

Stakeholder Management

Enterprise Architecture

Herramientas

Azure DevOps

Git

Kubernetes

Descripción del empleo

GCS is seeking a Lead Platform Cloud Architect to shape enterprise-scale cloud platforms and modernisation across a complex global environment. The role is hybrid in the UK (Sheffield or Birmingham) and contract Inside IR35, offering leadership across platform engineering and architecture teams.

You will drive cloud adoption, specify guidelines, and translate business needs into scalable technical solutions, while ensuring security, compliance, and governance.