Summary: The Cloud Solution Architect role involves designing and implementing solution architecture aligned with business goals, focusing on enhancing efficiency, scalability, and security within the technology infrastructure. The position requires collaboration with stakeholders and IT teams to develop comprehensive architectural solutions that support the Audit’s long-term vision. The role also emphasizes maintaining knowledge of technology trends and governing tech choices within the firm. This is a hybrid position with travel to London for an initial 6-month contract.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain extensive Azure Cloud and DevOps architecture and solution design skills, providing SME input to projects and/or run/build
• Build and maintain all-round competence in Cloud, and relevant Application, Integration, Data and Security technologies
• Maintain a high level of technical knowledge incl. current, emerging and future technology market trends and their impact on the business
• Develop and maintain expert knowledge of the clients technology ecosystem, incl. the main applications and technologies that support the Audit
• If required, provide advice to and/or seek to learn from other Member Firms, client teams and/or clients that are seeking to implement or improve their use of specific technologies and/or methods
• Create and develop relevant documents - reference architecture, roadmaps and other key architecture artefacts
• Work closely with Cloud engineering teams across the firm
• Create and maintain a detailed view of existing designs to help manage the transition to future state
• Identify business/project risk and mitigate or communicate as necessary
• Carry out additional duties as may occur from time to time as instructed and agreed by leadership
• Develop relationships within the business and technology functions
• Ensure that product roadmaps are aligned to the Audit strategy and the Firm's Digital Strategy, and are coherent with those of other Capabilities and technology domain roadmaps
• Work with Capability CTOs, technical SMEs and specific projects to analyse and translate business requirements into technical requirements, ensuring that these are feasible
• Ensure that Solution Architects produce designs that are fit for purpose, adhere to relevant standards and patterns, leverage reusable components, and are coherent with wider tech domains

Key Skills:

• 6 - 9 years of solution architecture experience
• Proven expert knowledge of Cloud architecture design relating to Azure
• Strong understanding of IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Cloud hosting and integration technologies
• Strong understanding of Azure Active Directory
• Experience of cloud monitoring, provisioning, orchestration management, and DevSecOps
• Business focused, with the ability to communicate and convey messages to both technical and business stakeholders
• Good knowledge of at least 2-3 other domains in Infrastructure, Networking, Security, and Integration
• Good knowledge of EA governance incl. steps required, eg, Info Sec approval, conceptual and solution architecture reviews, pen tests, code reviews and service acceptance criteria
• Strong experience in Enterprise and Solution Architecture roles
• A high level of general, technical knowledge incl. current, emerging and future technology market trends and their impact on business
• Good understanding of project management concepts, incl. Gantt charts/plans, risks, assumptions, and dependencies, etc.
• Ability to leverage networks to tap into additional expertise if required
• Good understanding of technical debt, incl. its causes, how to measure it, and remedial actions incl. decommissioning
• Experience of working with project teams both onshore and/or offshore
• Comfortable working with ambiguity at the beginning of projects, with ability to provide clarity of direction despite this
• Mentor and coach junior colleagues where necessary

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: London

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT