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Principal Digital Specialist (Cloud Architect)
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Cloud Architect
Shape the Future of Scottish Water’s Cloud Hosting and Platform Capabilities
About The Role
As Cloud Architect, you’ll lead the cloud hosting architecture for Scottish Water’s transition journey, from assessing application hosting needs, to defining landing zone patterns, to specifying Azure services for networking, identity, security, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery and platform services. You’ll help teams choose the right approach: rehost, replatform, refactor or rebuild, balancing delivery pace with long-term sustainability and operational excellence.
This role is ideal for an experienced infrastructure or cloud architect who can translate hosting requirements into clear, deployable Azure architectures, standards and implementation guidance.
What You'll Be Doing
- Define Azure hosting architectures for core systems by producing reference architectures for IaaS hosting, including virtual machines, storage, connectivity, backup, disaster recovery, patching and monitoring.
- Define when IaaS is the right fit versus PaaS, ensuring hosting decisions are secure, resilient, supportable and cost-effective.
- Design cloud networking and connectivity patterns by specifying designs for hub-and-spoke networking, routing, firewalling, private endpoints, DNS and hybrid connectivity.
- Ensure Azure connectivity patterns are practical, secure and maintainable.
- Enable cloud-native delivery through PaaS patterns.
- Define standard patterns using services such as App Service, Functions, API Management, Service Bus, Event Grid, Key Vault, managed databases and secure integration services.
- Create golden paths, reusable templates and platform standards for delivery teams.
- Govern and assure cloud designs across programmes by providing architectural assurance for project designs.
- Ensure alignment with Scottish Water standards for security, resilience, supportability and cost management.
- Embed controls for identity, logging, threat detection, encryption, secrets management and vulnerability management.
- Translate requirements into clear architecture outputs, including standards, patterns, high-level designs and implementation guidance.
- Document as-is and to-be architectures for change programmes to support delivery alignment, partner engagement and governance.
- Partner with Platforms, Enterprise Architecture, Networks, Cyber Security and delivery teams to remove blockers and implement designs pragmatically.
- Engage vendors and partners to ensure designs are achievable, maintainable and aligned to Scottish Water’s long-term platform direction.
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What You'll Bring
- Strong experience designing Azure infrastructure for business-critical workloads.
- Solid grounding in IaaS architecture, including compute, storage, networking, identity, backup and disaster recovery.
- Good understanding of cloud security fundamentals, including identity and access, network segmentation, encryption, logging, monitoring and vulnerability management.
- Ability to translate business and technical requirements into clear architecture outputs, standards, patterns and implementation guidance.
- Confidence in influencing both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Judgement to balance delivery pace, operational risk and long-term platform sustainability.
- Pragmatic, collaborative mindset and ability to work effectively with internal teams, delivery partners and vendors.
Advantageous Experience:
- Modernising legacy estates.
- Guiding migration choices.
- Working with CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Bicep or Terraform.
- Applying policy guardrails.
- Standardising environments.
- Operating in regulated or critical national infrastructure environments.
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What We Offer
- Opportunity to join a collaborative and future-focused digital organisation.
- Chance to make a tangible impact on how Scottish Water hosts, secures and operates the platforms that support essential services.
- Opportunity to shape our Azure cloud architecture and modernise our hosting estate.
- Enablement of secure, resilient digital services for communities across Scotland.
Work-Life Balance:
- Full-time role (35 hours per week).
- 38 days of holiday every year (including public holidays).
- Option to buy up to five additional days of holiday.
- Time off to volunteer in your community.
- Family-friendly policies around adoption, maternity, and parental leave.
- Embrace of flexible working.
- Pension (the ‘know-what-you’ll-get-when-you-retire’ kind).
- Life assurance.
- Participation in a company bonus scheme.
- Access to SW Splash – rewards that can save you money on holidays, bills, and shopping.
The not-so-small print
- Grade 8 role.
- Starting salary of £54,776 for new employees.
- Performance-driven pay progression to a maximum of £74,386.
- Applications accepted until midnight on 15th October 2026.
- Balanced Hybrid working at Scottish Water.
- Job offers conditional on completion of pre-employment screening.
- Valid UK driving licence required for driving on Scottish Water business and claiming business mileage expenses.
- Drug & Alcohol testing in line with company policy.
- Records removed from recruitment database if no application in the last 12 months.
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