Job Description
Key Responsibilities
Architecture & Solution Design
- Design end-to-end cloud architectures across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS models.
- Produce High-Level Designs (HLDs), Low-Level Designs (LLDs), and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).
- Translate business and technical requirements into scalable cloud solutions.
- Define landing zone architectures, subscription models, and environment strategies.
Security & Compliance
- Embed security-by-design and zero-trust principles.
- Align solutions to regulatory and control frameworks (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC2, NIST, DORA).
- Define identity, access, encryption, and key-management architectures.
- Partner with InfoSec for threat modelling and risk assessments.
Integration & Connectivity
- Architect hybrid and multi-cloud connectivity models.
- Design secure integration patterns (APIs, messaging, event streaming).
Governance & Standards
- Contribute to Enterprise Architecture and Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE)
- Define and enforce cloud design standards, blueprints, and guardrails
- Support Architecture Review Boards (ARB) and design authority forums
Cost & FinOps Management
- Design cost-optimised architectures
- Implement tagging, cost allocation, and budget guardrails
- Support forecasting and consumption optimisation initiatives
Delivery & Transformation
- Support cloud migrations, M&A integrations, and modernisation programmes
- .Provide technical leadership to engineering and delivery teams
- .Assure solution delivery aligns to approved architecture
.Stakeholder Management
- Business product owners and programme directors
- Enterprise and domain architects
- Cloud engineering and platform teams
- Cybersecurity and risk functions
- Third-party vendors and system integrators
Required Skills & Experience
Technical Expertise
- Deep expertise in at least one hyperscaler (Azure preferred / AWS / GCP)
- Cloud networking (VNet/VPC design, private endpoints, DNS, routing)
- Identity platforms (Azure AD / Entra ID, federation, SSO)
- Compute platforms (VMs, containers, serverless)
- Storage and data services
- Backup, DR, and resilience architectures
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