Senior Cloud Solutions Architect

Senior Cloud Solutions Architect – Azure / AWS

Why This Role?

Take technical ownership of complex cloud solutions across customer opportunities, bids and live delivery engagements. You’ll shape secure, scalable and commercially viable Azure and AWS solutions, taking them from early-stage architecture through to delivery assurance.

This is a highly customer-facing role where you’ll influence technical direction, solve complex architecture challenges and help turn ambitious cloud transformation requirements into solutions that engineering teams can successfully deliver.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead solution architecture across complexcloud migration, modernisation, landing zone, platform, security and cloud-nativeengagements.
• Shape technical solutions for customer opportunities,bids and RFPs, balancing technical quality, commercial viability and delivery practicality.
• Design secure, scalable and resilient solutions acrossAzure and/or AWS, spanning infrastructure, networking, identity, governance and operations.
• Produce and assure architecture artefacts includingHLDs, LLDs, reference architectures, design documentation and architectural decisions.
• Lead customer discovery sessions, technical workshops, design reviews and solution playback sessions.
• Work closely with Cloud Engineering and Delivery teams to ensure architecture is practical, implementable and operationally sound.
• Provide architecture governance and design assurance, identifying risks, dependencies, constraints and exceptions before they impact delivery.
• Maintain alignment between the solution developed during presales and what is ultimately delivered.
• Contribute to cloud architecture standards, reusable patterns, blueprints and reference designs.
• Mentor Cloud Solutions Architects and help strengthen architecture capability and best practice across the wider team.

Essential

• Deep expertise inMicrosoft Azure and/or AWSwithin complex enterprise cloud environments.
• Strong cloud architecture knowledge acrossIaaS, PaaS, SaaS, networking, identity, security, governance and operations.
• Experience designingcloud migration, modernisation, landing zone, platform or cloud-native solutions.
• Good understanding ofDevOps, Infrastructure as Code, automation and platform engineeringprinciples.
• Experience contributing to or leadingbids, RFPs, proposals and customer solution development.

Desirable

• Experience across bothAzure and AWS.
• Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)or equivalent practical experience.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professionalor equivalent practical experience.
• TOGAFor another recognised architecture framework/certification.
• Experience withFinOps, cloud governance, cloud security and operational readiness.

The corresponding role documentation likewise treats Azure/AWS, enterprise-scale cloud delivery and architecture experience as central, with TOGAF, security, FinOps and cloud-governance credentials adding value.

Why This Opportunity Stands Out

You’ll work across the full architecture lifecycle rather than being limited to either presales or delivery. That means shaping solutions during customer engagements, influencing bids and RFPs, establishing architectural direction and then helping ensure the resulting solution remains technically sound through delivery.

You’ll also have scope to influence reusable architecture patterns and standards, mentor other architects and work across areas includingcloud migration, modernisation, cloud-native architecture, landing zones, platform engineering, security, governance and FinOps

Telefónica Tech(part of the Telefónica Group) is a leading NextGen Tech solutions provider with a highly diversified team of over 6,000 exceptionally skilled employees and +60 nationalities.

We serve more than 5.5m customers every day in over 175 countries, with a global ecosystem of market-leading partners. Global strategic hubs: Spain, Brazil, the UK, Germany.

The Telefónica Tech UK&I hub has an end- to-end portfolio of market leading services and develops integrated technology solutions to accelerate digital transformation through: Cloud, Data & AI, Enterprise Applications, Digital Workplace and Cyber Security & Networking.

Values:Open, Bold, Trusted

Trusted Partners:

• Microsoft:Top 3 Service Providers, Azure Expert Status, Fastrack & Inner Circle Partner
• HPE: Platinum Partner– FY23 UK&I Solution Provider of the Year
• Palo Alto & Crowdstrike: part of our NextDefense Cyber Security Portfolio
• Fortinet: Elite VIP Program – one of only 2 in the UK
• AWS: Premier Tier Services Partner