Data Architect - Azure

Your Role

We are looking for strong Azure Solution Architects who are passionate and focused on data solutions and Microsoft technology and who ideally have skills in many of the following areas:

• Partners with other solution architects to assess solution alignment to the overall architectural blueprint – and drive proposal writing, solution direction, pricing and costing
• Owns Solution Development as liaison between Sales and Delivery teams. Serve as technical liaison between Sales team, Clients, Delivery & support teams up to and including Contract negotiations
• Have experience of designing architecture for data focused Microsoft Azure projects, Cooperate with sales team to formulate / execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives
• Working on Microsoft Azure PaaS and IaaS, specifically: App Services, Azure SQL Database, SQL Server, Storage, Synapse Analytics, Purview, Databricks, Azure data Factory, Azure data lake. Understand which Azure data focused components to use for which purpose

Your Skills and Experience

Our projects are varied, sometimes you may be asked to help define a client’s data visualisation transformation roadmap, other times you may be rolling your sleeves up and creating an innovative data platform, for a complex business problem or even assisting in responding to client bid responses. Ceritfication as an Azure Architect is essential but other desirable skills include:

• Knowledge of other Cloud Platforms such as AWS and GCP
• Knowledge of automation tooling such as Azure DevOps to facilitate CI/CD approaches to IaC
• Knowledge of IaaS implementation, Availability sets, Azure Networking concepts, Express Route, DNS, Load Balancing
• Strong skills in areas such as Docker, Kubernetes, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS to name a few

Your Security Clearance

To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance.

To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.

Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.

Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.