Senior Azure Capability Lead — Hands-On, Remote UK

Colibri Digital; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary Sacrifice Pension

Birthday day off

Remote-first within the UK

Private Medical Insurance

25 days annual leave

Job summary

Colibri Digital is seeking a lead Azure practitioner to deliver and shape Azure engagements. You will stay hands-on with the most technically demanding Azure work, guiding architecture decisions and security standards on client projects.

You will influence presales, estimates, and SOWs, build a growing Azure capability, and mentor the team while maintaining deep technical credibility with clients and partners in the UK.

Qualifications

• Senior technical authority on Azure engagements, able to influence technical and commercial decisions with clients, partners and internal stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Client delivery: Personally lead design, build and implementation work on our most complex Azure engagements, providing senior technical leadership within engagement teams.
• Technical quality: Architecture decisions, security baselines and QA on solutions built on the engagements you're staffed on, and as an escalation point elsewhere in the Azure capability.
• Azure technical standards: Architecture principles, security baselines and tooling choices for the capability, grounded in your own current delivery experience.
• Presales and commercial input: Scoping, estimating and solutioning Azure-aligned opportunities, proposals and tender responses, and contributing to Statements of Work with appropriate commercial protection.
• The Microsoft partnership: Competencies, specialisations and co-sell relationships that help Colibri get the most from its Microsoft partnership.
• Capability growth: Mentoring and technical input into recruitment for the Azure team, working alongside our POD Leads who own the people management side.

Skills

Azure

Technical authority

Architecture design

Security best practice

Presales input

Education

Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification

Job description

Colibri Digital is seeking a lead Azure practitioner to deliver and shape Azure engagements. You will stay hands-on with the most technically demanding Azure work, guiding architecture decisions and security standards on client projects.

You will influence presales, estimates, and SOWs, build a growing Azure capability, and mentor the team while maintaining deep technical credibility with clients and partners in the UK.