Azure Solution Architect – Digital Platforms

Role Overview

• Define and govern the holistic solution architecture across application, integration, data, and platform layers — ensuring cohesion and alignment across all workstreams.
• Lead Azure-first platform design aligned to the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework: reliability, security, cost optimisation, operational excellence, and performance efficiency.
• Design service composition strategies — identifying when to introduce API gateways, event streaming, service mesh, or integration middleware, and justifying those choices in business terms.
• Evaluate and recommend technologies and platforms across a polyglot environment; bring familiarity with .NET and modern backend ecosystems (e.g. Go) and the ability to reason about language and runtime trade-offs.
• Define environment topology and platform requirements to support modern agile delivery: CI/CD pipelines, environment strategy, deployment patterns, and IaC standards.
• Articulate business value clearly — translating architectural decisions into language that resonates with exec sponsors, product owners, and business stakeholders; support business case development with tangible benefit framing.
• Facilitate architecture workshops, design reviews, and governance checkpoints with C-suite, product owners, delivery partners, and offshore teams.
• Collaborate closely with the Software Architect and Technical Engagement Lead to ensure solution-level decisions are grounded in delivery reality and engineering capability.
• Maintain awareness of cloud cost optimisation (FinOps) and ensure architectural choices remain economically sustainable.
• Mentor architects and senior engineers on solution-level thinking; champion well-architected practices across the programme.

Requirements

• Proven track record as a Solution Architect or Principal Architect on large-scale cloud-native programmes, with Microsoft Azure as the primary platform.
• Deep, applied knowledge of the Azure Well-Architected Framework — able to demonstrate how its pillars have shaped real architectural decisions, not just describe them in theory.
• Experience designing service composition strategies and knowing when to introduce platforms (API gateway, event broker, integration middleware) to simplify complex architectures.
• Broad technical foundation — comfortable reasoning across application design, integration patterns, data architecture, networking, identity, and security without needing to be the hands-on expert in every layer.
• Familiarity with .NET and at least one other modern language or runtime (e.g. Go); able to evaluate architecture trade-offs in a polyglot environment.
• Strong grasp of modern agile delivery methodologies and how architectural decisions either accelerate or impede delivery velocity.
• Exceptional communication skills — able to articulate business benefits, frame trade-offs for non-technical stakeholders, and hold the room with C-suite executives.
• Experience working across multi-cloud or hybrid environments (Azure primary; AWS or on-premises secondary).

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Go
• .NET

Benefits

• Professional growth and learning opportunities
• A competitive salary (commensurate with experience)
• Hybrid working model (from a minimum of 2 days in the office)
• Fully subsidised medical insurance for employees
• Heavily discounted medical insurance for immediate family of employees
• Enhanced parental leave payment – salary top-ups plus return-to-work incentive
• Volunteer days
• Internal Referral Incentive
• Staff Assistance Programme
• Annual Flu injections
• Sick leave from your first day on board
• Remote working options where practical and mutually agreed
• Daily fresh fruit basket, coffee machine, wide selection of teas and biscuits in all of our offices.
• We are also an accredited employer with INZ