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Job title: Azure Platform Architect
Location: Birmingham or Sheffield (hybrid)
Contract: 6 - 12 months (potential contract - hire)
Overview:
We are seeking an experienced Platform Architect to play a pivotal role in shaping and evolving a large-scale Azure-based technology platform within a platform-centric operating model. This is a strategic architecture position focused on defining the long-term direction of enterprise platforms, governance frameworks, and cloud architecture standards rather than project-specific solution design.
The successful candidate will be responsible for driving platform strategy across the organisation, ensuring scalability, security, resilience, and operational excellence while supporting ongoing business transformation initiatives.
Key responsibilities:
- Define and own the strategic roadmap for enterprise platforms hosted within Microsoft Azure.
- Lead architectural decision-making across cloud infrastructure, platform services, security, networking, governance, and operational tooling.
- Establish and maintain architectural principles, standards, and best practices across the organisation.
- Drive platform evolution, ensuring solutions are scalable, resilient, secure, and aligned to business objectives.
- Collaborate with senior technology leadership, engineering teams, security, operations, and business stakeholders to shape future platform capabilities.
- Champion a platform engineering and platform-centric operating model, enabling development teams through reusable services and self-service capabilities.
- Design and implement Azure governance frameworks covering identity, security, compliance, cost management, and operational controls.
- Provide technical leadership across cloud modernisation and digital transformation programmes.
- Support M&A initiatives through technical due diligence, platform assessments, integration planning, and target-state architecture design.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends to ensure the platform remains modern and fit for future growth.
- Mentor architects and engineering teams while influencing architectural practices across the wider organisation.
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Experience required:
- Extensive experience as a Platform Architect, Enterprise Architect, or Lead Cloud Architect within large-scale enterprise environments.
- Deep expertise in Microsoft Azure, including Azure Landing Zones, Azure Networking, Azure Identity & Access Management, Azure Security & Governance, Azure Compute, Storage, and Platform Services, Azure Monitoring and Operational Tooling.
- Proven track record of defining and implementing enterprise-wide platform architecture strategies.
- Strong understanding of platform operating models and platform engineering principles.
- Experience establishing architecture governance, standards, and technology roadmaps.
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive strategic technology decisions.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
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