Senior Azure Application Architect

TyneStack Ltd; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Autonomy to shape architecture

Job summary

TyneStack Ltd in Newcastle upon Tyne is seeking a Senior Azure Application Architect to lead the ongoing evolution of our Azure-based application estate. This role combines hands-on architectural leadership with strategic direction to improve resilience, security, performance, and cost efficiency.

You will review existing platforms, set architectural standards and influence longer term technical direction across Development, DevOps and Security teams.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial Microsoft Azure architecture experience.
• Strong software engineering background, ideally C# and .NET
• Experience designing and supporting cloud based applications and distributed systems

Responsibilities

• Own the ongoing review and evolution of Azure application architecture
• Assess existing platforms for architectural robustness, resilience and technical risk
• Identify improvements across security, performance, scalability, reliability and cost
• Establish architectural standards, principles and longer term technical direction
• Develop pragmatic remediation plans rather than large scale rewrites
• Work across Development, DevOps, Security and Product to implement architectural improvements
• Improve application resilience, observability, monitoring and disaster recovery
• Provide hands on technical leadership across application and platform initiatives
• Develop a longer term architectural roadmap as the wider application estate is assessed

Skills

Azure architecture

C# / .NET

Cloud apps

Distributed systems

APIs & microservices

Tools

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

Job description

Senior Azure Application Architect (.NET / Azure)

Location: Newcastle upon Tyne | Hybrid (3 Days Office / 2 Days Home)

Type: Full-time, Permanent

Overview

An established UK financial services organisation is looking to appoint a Senior Azure Application Architect into a newly created role within its Development function.

This is an opportunity to take ownership of reviewing and evolving an established Azure application estate rather than simply designing greenfield solutions. You'll initially assess a modern Azure native platform, establish its architectural baseline and identify opportunities to improve resilience, security, performance, scalability and cost efficiency.

The remit is expected to expand across the wider application estate, with genuine autonomy to help establish architectural standards, influence longer term technical direction and potentially shape additional architectural capability around you.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the ongoing review and evolution of Azure application architecture
• Assess existing platforms for architectural robustness, resilience and technical risk
• Identify improvements across security, performance, scalability, reliability and cost
• Establish architectural standards, principles and longer term technical direction
• Develop pragmatic remediation plans rather than defaulting to large scale rewrites
• Work across Development, DevOps, Security and Product to implement architectural improvements
• Improve application resilience, observability, monitoring and disaster recovery
• Evaluate new Azure services, AI tooling and engineering technologies against genuine business requirements
• Provide hands on technical leadership across application and platform initiatives
• Develop a longer term architectural roadmap as the wider application estate is assessed

Requirements

• Strong commercial Microsoft Azure architecture experience
• Strong software engineering background, ideally C# and .NET
• Experience designing and supporting cloud based applications and distributed systems
• Strong knowledge of APIs, microservices, integration and cloud native architecture
• Experience assessing and improving existing application estates
• Strong understanding of resilience, availability, disaster recovery and application performance
• Experience identifying architectural risk and translating findings into practical improvement plans
• Strong technical leadership and stakeholder management skills

Desirable

• Experience within financial services or another regulated environment
• Azure DevOps, CI/CD and mature SDLC experience
• Application monitoring, observability and root cause analysis experience
• Exposure to AI assisted software development and engineering automation
• Previous Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer or senior technical leadership experience

What’s on Offer

• £70,000 to £75,000 basic salary
• Hybrid working with three days per week in Newcastle
• Newly created position with significant autonomy and influence
• Opportunity to shape architectural direction across a sizeable application estate
• Scope for the remit and architectural capability to grow around the successful person
• Established organisation offering technical complexity, resources and long term opportunity

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This role would particularly suit an experienced Azure or Software Architect who originally came through hands on software engineering and still wants to remain close enough to the technology to challenge solutions and influence engineering decisions.