Senior Azure Cloud Architect & Enterprise Solutions Lead

International Business Machines Corporation; Leicester Forest East; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Sabbatical program

Paternity leave

Maternity leave

Maternity returners

Private medical

Dental cover

Optical cover

Employee assistance

Life assurance

Group pension

Job summary

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow is looking for a senior Cloud Architect to drive design and delivery of cloud solutions, lead teams, and engage in pre-sales activities. You will work on hybrid cloud and AI projects for public and private sectors, with opportunities to travel in the UK and Europe.

You'll collaborate with top professionals, mentor architects, and shape customer roadmaps while supporting a flexible, inclusive environment that values curiosity and reinvention.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Cloud Architecture Design and patterns.
• Experience leading other Cloud Architects and delivery engagements.
• Advanced knowledge of Azure or AWS (multiple clouds a plus).
• Solid engineering background with cloud solutions.
• Windows and/or Linux sys admin background.
• Experience with IaaS, PaaS, SaaS architectures.
• DevOps skills for leading teams and consulting.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of security, networks, virtualization, load balancers, storage, databases.
• Container tech experience (Kubernetes, OpenShift).
• IaaC for managing cloud environments.
• Scripting in Bash/Python/Powershell.
• Active customer consultant and pre-sales attitude.
• Fluent English communication.

Responsibilities

• Participate in various customer projects from new infra builds to migrations and big data.
• Implement configuration management infrastructure.
• Coach and lead a small team of architects and engineers and support presales.
• People line management including appraisals and resource allocation.
• Be a trusted advisor for enterprise customers and manage roadmaps with Sales.
• Manage projects from start to release across multiple hats.
• Travel readiness to UK and other European locations.

Skills

Cloud Architecture Design

Cloud Patterns

Leading Cloud Architects

Azure or AWS

DevOps

CI/CD pipelines

IaaS, PaaS, SaaS

Security

Networks

Container Technologies

IaaC

Scripting (Bash/Python/Powershell)

Pre-sales attitude

Fluent English

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Job description

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow is looking for a senior Cloud Architect to drive design and delivery of cloud solutions, lead teams, and engage in pre-sales activities. You will work on hybrid cloud and AI projects for public and private sectors, with opportunities to travel in the UK and Europe.

You'll collaborate with top professionals, mentor architects, and shape customer roadmaps while supporting a flexible, inclusive environment that values curiosity and reinvention.