Cloud Solution Architect
£70,000 - 80,000 + bonus + benefits
data implementation,
application integration
azure cloud
ERP (Finance / HR)
Can be based from any UK office working onsite a few times a month, working from home the rest of the time.
Choice office locations would be London, Birmingham or Manchester
Leading professional services company is actively recruiting for an experienced Solution Architect who has assisted in architecting ERP solutions for finance and HR teams, working in a greenfield environment.
Reporting in to the Head of Architecture and working in collaboration with the ERP Programme Lead, the IT Architect will be responsible for ensuring the architecture is aligned to the firm's technology roadmap. The candidate will be responsible for defining, designing and leading implementation of new data and application integrations and data led initiatives to support approx. 3500 users in 20 offices.
Role and responsibilities for the position of Cloud Solution Architect
Ensure all architectural principles are adhered to for technology decisions for the enterprise.
Specify, design and help implement new services with strong traceability back to business requirements and IT strategies.
Strong engagement across other IT workstreams covering security, governance and service operations.
Develop options, supporting rationale and cost benefit analysis for proposed areas of spending and initiatives.
Establish and maintain regular written and in-person communications with the firm's business leaders, department heads, and end users to proactively assist in the direction for future projects and programmes of work.
Demonstrate the delivery of complex application, data and integration services
Ability to provide a vision and strategy for data and application services
Ability to act as a technical lead for key projects initiatives.
Performs the necessary leadership, analysis and design of tasks related to the development of a solutions architecture.
Analyses business drivers to determine corresponding change requirements.
Facilitates and leads the evaluation and selection of technology product standards, as well as the design of standard technology configurations.
Defines transition steps and strategy as required from Legacy data integrations to modern scalable platforms
Manage and oversee internal and external technology resources in the delivery of agreed solutions.
Align services to support Global IT requirements and standards.
Ability to author a variety of architectural documents, from High Level to Low Level designs, configuration/build guides, knowledgebase etc.
Nice to have for the position of Cloud Solution Architect
Wide and extensive experience with complex technology architecture landscapes with broad range of knowledge and experience in applications, data, Azure cloud based services covering compute, network, storage and API management
Wide and extensive experience of Microsoft 365 services including Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams
Experience of Microsoft Fabric, Synapse, Data Lakes, API Management and other data services.
Experience of Azure DevOps, Repos, CI/CD pipelines for code development and promotion.
Understanding of data residency and hosting requirements, Multi-Geo, high availability and disaster recovery concepts within Azure
Demonstrate design of Azure services according to Well Architected Framework
Wide and extensive experience across network, applications, data and infrastructure domains.
Understanding of security guidance, frameworks and security baselines including NIST, NCSC and Cyber Essentials +
Securing Azure based services, techniques and practical application, with relevant accreditations
Audit and Governance services within Azure for compliance with GDPR/FOI requests
Strong knowledge of design and architectural patterns.
Experience of software development methodologies and structured approaches to system development.
Knowledge of IT governance and operations.