Azure Tech Lead

Accenture UK & Ireland; Dublin; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture UK & Ireland seeks a Senior Azure Tech Lead to design, implement and operate secure cloud platforms for data-intensive workloads. You will bridge cloud engineering and data platform teams to enable reliable analytics and AI services.

Responsibilities include owning Azure platform services, IaC, automation, and cost management, while mentoring engineers and ensuring alignment with governance and enterprise standards.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on Azure engineering experience across networking, compute, storage, identity and governance.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation for Azure deployments.
• Experience leading cloud engineering teams or workstreams in enterprise environments.
• AZ-305 Certification is required.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical design and operational health of Azure platform services.
• Provision repeatable environments through infrastructure as code and automated deployment pipelines.
• Engineer platform foundations for Data Lake Storage, Fabric, Data Factory, Databricks, Azure SQL and related services.
• Apply private connectivity, managed identities, secrets management, encryption, backup and disaster-recovery patterns.
• Monitor reliability, performance, capacity and cost; lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
• Lead technical delivery of cloud platform workstreams, managing technical risks and readiness activities.
• Define and enforce cloud engineering standards, automation practices and operational controls.
• Provide technical leadership and coaching to engineers while aligning capabilities with business requirements.

Skills

Azure platform engineering

Leadership

Security & governance

Observability & reliability

Cloud architecture

Education

AZ-305 Certification

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

PowerShell

Python

Job description

Role overview: We are seeking a senior Azure Tech Lead who can design, implement and operate secure cloud platforms while supporting data-intensive workloads. The role will bridge cloud engineering and data platform teams, ensuring that Azure foundations, connectivity, automation and operational controls enable reliable analytics and AI services.

Key responsibilities:

• Own the technical design and operational health of Azure platform services, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, security and governance standard.
• Provision repeatable environments through infrastructure as code and automated deployment pipelines.
• Engineer platform foundations for Data Lake Storage, Fabric, Data Factory, Databricks, Azure SQL and related services.
• Apply private connectivity, managed identities, secrets management, encryption, backup and disaster-recovery patterns.
• Monitor reliability, performance, capacity and cost; lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
• Lead technical delivery of cloud platform workstreams, managing technical risks, dependencies, readiness activities and successful transition into operations
• Define and enforce cloud engineering standards, automation practices and operational controls to ensure consistency, cost optimisation, reliability and maintainability across environments
• Provide technical leadership and coaching to engineers while collaborating with architects, security teams, application teams and client stakeholders to align cloud-platform capabilities with business requirements

Qualifications, skills and experience:

• Strong hands-on Azure engineering experience across networking, compute, storage, identity and governance.
• Experience with Terraform or Bicep, Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, and scripting with PowerShell or Python.
• Working knowledge of Azure data services and the non-functional needs of analytical platforms.
• Strong understanding of enterprise security architecture, resilience engineering, observability, governance and cloud financial management.
• Demonstrated experience leading cloud engineering teams or workstreams, influencing stakeholders and managing technical delivery in enterprise environments
• AZ-305 Certification

Desirable: Azure Landing Zones, Azure Networking, Azure Security, FinOps, Infrastructure-as-Code, Platform Engineering Methodologies, Azure Kubernetes Service, Microsoft AI Resources, GitHub enterprise, Purview and relevant Azure Architect certifications