Anson McCade
Cloud Architect
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Job Title: Infrastructure / Cloud Architect
Location: London (Hybrid)
Reporting To: Head of Global Technology Services
Role Overview
The Infrastructure Architect is a senior technical authority responsible for defining, governing, and evolving infrastructure architecture across M365, Azure, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and on-premises systems.
Operating within a complex, federated environment consisting of a central headquarters and over 40 individual operating companies, this role provides critical architectural direction, standards, and assurance across the group. The successful candidate will ensure infrastructure platforms are secure, resilient, scalable, and aligned with overall business and technology strategies, while enabling individual operating companies to adopt best practices consistently.
The position works closely with senior technical leads (across Infrastructure, Cyber Security, Enterprise Applications, and Digital Solutions) to provide architectural oversight for major initiatives, migrations, and digital transformations.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership & Design Authority
- Design Authority: Act as the primary design authority for enterprise infrastructure across M365, Azure, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and hybrid/on-premises environments.
- Standards & Roadmaps: Define and maintain global infrastructure principles, standards, reference designs, and target roadmaps.
- Tenant & Cloud Strategy: Lead M365 tenant strategy and complex migrations aligned to security, identity, compliance, and operating models.
- Azure Architecture: Define Azure and hybrid architecture patterns aligned to the Azure Well-Architected Framework (focusing on cost, reliability, security, operations, and performance).
- Modernisation: Oversee on-premises infrastructure architecture, integration, lifecycle management, and modernisation.
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Automation, DevOps & FinOps
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Promote IaC and automation-first principles using Terraform, Bicep, or ARM for consistent deployments.
- CI/CD Alignment: Align infrastructure architecture with DevOps and platform engineering to enable CI/CD, standardised environments, and faster delivery.
- FinOps Governance: Define and govern FinOps practices, including cost optimisation, usage governance, budgeting, and forecasting across Azure and M365.
- Cost Controls: Establish cost controls, including tagging, showback/chargeback, and accountability across diverse operating companies.
Emerging Technology & AI
- AI/ML Infrastructure: Define infrastructure architecture for AI/ML workloads, advanced analytics, and high-performance computing.
- AI Readiness: Ensure platforms are AI-ready with scalable compute, data integration, secure access, and responsible AI controls.
- Future Roadmaps: Evaluate emerging capabilities (such as Copilot and advanced AI services) to define group-wide adoption patterns and promote AIOps for improved automated operational insights.
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Role Prerequisites
- Experience: Typically 8+ years of deep experience in infrastructure, cloud, or platform roles, including demonstrated time operating at an architectural or design authority level.
- Cloud Expertise: Deep, hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure and M365 in enterprise or global environments.
- Hybrid Systems: Strong understanding of hybrid infrastructure, including on-premises data centres, networking, and identity integration.
- SaaS Integration: Experience supporting or integrating SaaS platforms (e.g., Dynamics 365 and Power Platform) from an infrastructure and security perspective.
- Multi-Company Governance: Proven experience defining architecture standards, patterns, and governance in complex, multi-company or federated organisations.
- Identity & Access Management: Strong knowledge of IAM technologies, including Entra ID (Azure AD), Azure AD Connect, ADFS, federation, MFA, and conditional access.
- Migration Delivery: Experience shaping and assuring complex infrastructure migrations and modernisation programmes.
- Communication: Proven ability to translate complex technical architecture into clear, actionable guidance for engineers, senior leaders, and non-technical stakeholders.
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