Senior Solutions Architect (UK)

Responsibilities:

• Team leadership – coach and develop a high-performing team of architects and engineers, allocate work and encourage a culture of continuous improvement.

• Architectural direction – set the technical direction for Azure landing zones and related services, working with colleagues to agree best-practice patterns and governance.

• Decision-making and governance – chair design reviews, take responsibility for architecture decisions and present options analysis to senior internal and customer stakeholders.

• Solution design – design secure, efficient Azure solutions and plan modular landing zone topologies that deliver scalability, resilience and cost optimisation.

• Infrastructure as Code – deploy and manage Azure infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (e.g. Bicep, Terraform).

• Delivery pipelines – direct the implementation of CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CD) and promote automated testing and release processes.

• New capabilities – lead the introduction of emerging capabilities (e.g. mobile platforms, geospatial analytics, zero-trust architectures) into legacy and hybrid estates.

• Operational performance – lead ongoing monitoring, capacity planning and cost control across cloud workloads.

• Partner liaison – work with defence partners, third-