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Senior Azure Architect (SC Cleared)
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Job Title: Senior Azure Architect
Location: Remote (with ad hoc travel across North & South England offices)
Contract Length: 6 Months (with scope to extend)
Start Date: ASAP
IR35: Inside
Interview Process: 1 Stage, MS Teams
Clearance: SC
We are supporting a public sector client in hiring a Senior Azure Architect to act as Technical Oversight Lead across a high-profile Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 cloud programme within the UK's critical national infrastructure sector.
This is a senior role combining hands-on coding with strategic architectural oversight, requiring someone who can set technical direction, govern design standards across the Azure and M365 estate and provide architectural assurance on major platform changes. The successful candidate will own the target-state Azure architecture and roadmap, chair architecture review points and represent the technical solution to senior client stakeholders throughout the engagement.
This role suits an accomplished Senior Azure Architect with genuine hands-on coding ability, deep M365 expertise, strong Microsoft Intune experience and the credibility to lead technical direction in a highly regulated, security-conscious environment.
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Key Responsibilities
- Define and own the target-state Azure architecture and roadmap for the engagement, ensuring alignment with M365 governance, data standards and platform design principles
- Set and govern design standards, patterns and reusable components across the Azure and M365 estate, driving consistency across the wider delivery team
- Provide architectural sign-off and technical assurance on major changes and designs produced by the wider team
- Chair and lead architecture review points, representing the technical solution to client stakeholders
- Own risk, technical debt and dependency management across the Azure and M365 estate
- Manage Microsoft Intune and related Azure services, ensuring configurations are maintained in line with agreed standards and governance
- Provide strategic oversight and technical direction across the platform, supporting and enabling the wider engineering and delivery team
Essential Skills & Requirements
- Strong Microsoft Azure architecture experience with genuine hands-on coding ability
- Deep knowledge of Microsoft 365 technologies and M365 governance and data standards
- Proven experience setting technical direction, governing design standards and providing architectural assurance across complex Azure estates
- Experience with Microsoft Intune and wider Azure service management in regulated environments
- Ability to chair architecture reviews and represent technical solutions to senior client stakeholders
- Experience managing risk, technical debt and dependencies across large Azure and M365 platform programmes
- Comfortable operating within highly regulated, security-conscious environments
- Comfortable taking a drinks/drugs test before joining the project
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Desirable Skills
- Experience within critical national infrastructure, central government or similarly sensitive public sector environments
- Familiarity with Microsoft Azure Landing Zones, Cloud Adoption Framework and Well-Architected Framework
- Experience governing platform change across distributed, multi-team delivery programmes
- Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert or equivalent certification
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