Role: Lead Cloud Platform Architect Location: Sheffield or Edinburgh Duration: 28/11/2025 Rate: £770.59 P/Day – Umbrella – Inside IR35
Principal responsibilities:
- Collaborate with Enterprise Cloud Architects to evolve the Cloud Strategy; and to define & execute the delivery of the strategy on the GCP Platform.
- Work with the Enterprise Cloud Architects, Amazon Web Services/Azure/AliCloud/GCP Lead Platform Architects and Chief Technology Office Cloud Services, to align cross-cloud technical and business processes. Examples include the evaluation and implementation of appropriate tooling and automation to support management of cloud platforms; standardising platform onboarding experience; identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and resilience; MI reporting; integration with existing enterprise tooling (eg change management).
- Partner with Cloud Security Architects and Cloud Data Architects to inform their respective Cloud Strategies and supporting them as a subject matter expert.
- Engage with Product Managers to ensure requirements are incorporated within their product roadmap and support Product Managers to drive the timely adoption of new technologies.
- Provide escalation assistance to the Cloud Platform teams.
- Understand appropriate Regulatory controls for Financial Institutions and the impact of material outsourcing. Provide appropriate support for our Regulatory engagements.
- Evangelise the Cloud Strategy across.
Essential skillset / Experience:
- Extensive long standing practical and in-depth knowledge of GCP Cloud.
- Experience with GCP IaaS, PaaS, governance and compliance services, security services, and IAM
- Experience as an Architecture practitioner in a large-scale organisation and the demonstrable ability to extract requirements and make sound, motivated recommendations based on your Cloud knowledge.
- Experience with GCP Networking principles and the ability to empathise with and guide those transitioning from an on-premises networking paradigm.
- Track record of delivering significant change which improves business effectiveness in sustainable way.
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills with experience of successfully influencing others, negotiating effectively, and winning over a diverse set of stakeholders with compelling, appropriately positioned, and persuasive presentations.
- A background in Engineering roles (software, infrastructure, data) will enable you to empathise with your customers and the challenges they face.
Please apply for the vacancy to be considered and contacted via an Experis consultant. If you have not been contacted within 14 days of the application, please consider yourself unsuccessful.