Power Platform Architect — Strategic AI & Cloud Leader

Methods; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a Senior/Principal Architect to lead technical architecture across complex digital services in the UK, with emphasis on Microsoft 365, Azure and Power Platform. You will shape strategy, governance and multi-team delivery through evidence-based decisions.

You will coach architects, collaborate with product, security, data and suppliers, manage risks and dependencies, and ensure sustainable, compliant architecture.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience leading technical architecture for complex, high-risk or organisation-wide digital services and technology portfolios specifically in Microsoft products.
• Ability to set technical direction across multiple teams and to make or assure decisions that balance user need, strategy, security, delivery feasibility, cost and service sustainability.
• Experience designing and governing cloud-based application ecosystems, including enterprise platforms, APIs, identity, data and integration services.
• Ability to communicate architecture clearly to technical and non-technical audiences and build support for high-impact decisions where evidence, risk or stakeholder views conflict.
• Strong understanding of architecture governance, including decision records, standards, risk-based assurance, service assessments and management of exceptions and technical debt.
• Commercial awareness, including the architectural implications of sourcing, licensing, suppliers, contracts, portability and exit strategies.
• Experience shaping strategy and roadmaps that connect technical, user, operational and organisational perspectives.
• Evidence of coaching architects, developing professional capability and improving practice across teams or communities.
• Architecture experience with Microsoft Power Platform, Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365, Azure and associated governance and integration patterns.
• Experience assuring AI-enabled or agentic solutions, including grounding, tool access, human oversight, evaluation, monitoring and responsible AI controls.
• Understanding of regulated, justice, public-sector or security-conscious environments.
• Relevant architecture, cloud or Microsoft certifications, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Operate across services, programmes and portfolios, working with service and product owners, delivery teams, cyber security, data, commercial colleagues and senior leaders.
• Ensure the quality and consistency of significant architecture decisions and make trade-offs visible to decision-makers.
• Guide the use of Microsoft Power Platform, Copilot Studio, approved AI services, Azure and pro-code integration patterns.
• Shape guardrails, reference architectures and risk-proportionate assurance covering identity, information protection, integration, resilience, operability and responsible AI.
• Provide professional leadership by coaching architects, improving architecture practice and enabling multidisciplinary teams and suppliers to make timely, evidence-based decisions.
• Lead technical architecture across the Application Platforms portfolio and connect service-level decisions to organisational strategy, enterprise architecture and technology roadmaps.
• Own or assure complex and high-risk designs covering Power Platform, automation, AI agents, Microsoft 365, Azure, APIs, data services and bespoke applications.
• Define and maintain reference architectures, principles, standards and reusable patterns while managing security, data, accessibility, operational and lifecycle risks.
• Chair or lead proportionate design assurance, record significant decisions and ensure exceptions, risks, technical debt and dependencies have clear owners and treatment plans.
• Advise leaders on architectural options, benefits, costs, constraints and consequences.
• Shape platform and supplier choices with commercial, financial and service-management colleagues, including whole-life cost, licensing, exit, portability and supportability considerations.
• Work across organisational boundaries to resolve conflicting needs, align roadmaps and manage dependencies.
• Use evidence from delivery, operations, risk and technology trends to improve strategy, resilience and investment priorities.
• Coach solution architects and strengthen the architecture community through peer review, knowledge sharing and consistent professional practice.

Skills

Technical Architecture Leadership

Microsoft Power Platform

Cloud Architecture

Architecture Governance

Education

Architecture Certifications

Cloud Certifications

Microsoft Certifications

Tools

Microsoft 365

Azure

Power Platform

Copilot Studio

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a Senior/Principal Architect to lead technical architecture across complex digital services in the UK, with emphasis on Microsoft 365, Azure and Power Platform. You will shape strategy, governance and multi-team delivery through evidence-based decisions.

You will coach architects, collaborate with product, security, data and suppliers, manage risks and dependencies, and ensure sustainable, compliant architecture.