Principal Azure Solutions Architect

Sopra Steria; England; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Sopra Steria seeks a Principal Azure Solutions Architect to lead the design and delivery of innovative Azure solutions. In this senior role, you'll drive technical strategy and mentor team members in a collaborative environment, with strong career progression opportunities and flexible working arrangements available.

Benefits

£6,600 car allowance

25 days annual leave with options to buy additional

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Pension

Generous flexible benefits fund

Qualifications

• Experience with Azure Containers and integration services appreciated.
• Familiarity with hybrid environments and on-premises infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead implementation of Microsoft Azure solutions for critical projects.
• Manage complex client engagements and facilitate technical workshops.
• Mentor and develop junior team members.

Skills

Deep expertise in Microsoft Azure

Cloud infrastructure knowledge

Leadership skills

Infrastructure as Code

Azure security knowledge

Education

Microsoft certifications (Azure Solutions Architect Expert)

Tools

Terraform

PowerShell

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We’re looking for a Principal Azure Solutions Architect to join our dynamic and forward-thinking team. In this senior role, you’ll lead the design and delivery of cutting-edge Azure solutions for a diverse range of clients. You’ll play a pivotal role in shaping technical strategy, mentoring others, and driving innovation across complex cloud environments.

Our team thrives on collaboration, continuous learning, and delivering excellence. We foster a supportive culture where your expertise is valued, and your ideas can make a real impact.

We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities.

What you'll be doing:

• Leading the implementation of Microsoft Azure solutions for critical, high-impact projects.
• Managing complex client engagements and facilitating technical workshops.
• Ensuring the quality, security, and compliance of all deliverables.
• Playing a key role in pre-sales activities and shaping client cloud strategies.
• Mentoring and developing junior team members.
• Driving innovation and contributing to the development of internal IP and propositions.
  
  

What you’ll bring:

• Deep expertise in Microsoft Azure and M365 technologies.
• Solid background in cloud infrastructure, migrations, and cloud-native design.
• Leadership skills and a proven ability to lead technical engagements.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code E.g. ARM, Bicep, Terraform, PowerShell.
• Knowledge of Azure security, governance, and serverless technologies.
  
  

It would be great if you had:

• Microsoft certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Cyber Security Architect Expert, or DevOps Engineer Expert.
• Experience with Azure Containers and integration services.
• Familiarity with hybrid environments and on-premises infrastructure.
  
  

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time Permanent.

Location: UK Wide

Security Clearance Level: Must be SC Eligible

Internal Recruiter: Annecia

Salary: up to £110k dependent on experience.

Benefits: £6,600 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund.

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

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With a long history of delivering transformation, we've developed a market-leading partnership ecosystem to provide business services of the future and shape valuable, positive outcomes for communities. We empower our clients by providing innovative solutions and commercial models that help them meet their business needs, drive operational efficiencies, and deliver impactful value creation. We remain committed to values of excellence, empathy and respect to produce transformative outcomes in business processing – creating value for all.

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

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  Full-time

Job function

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  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Professional Services

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