Azure Solutions Architect

Role: Azure Solutions Architect / Senior Technical Consultant

Experience: 15years

Location: London

Work mode: Hybrid

Key Responsibilities

• Urgent High-Level Design (HLD):
• Rapidly develop an Azure-centric HLD that prioritizes security and robustness to gain immediate approval from technical architects and IRR.
• Design a solution that incorporates Azure Files and Azure Backup, ensuring that while primary storage is locally redundant, backups are stored in a different region (e.g., outside UK South) for disaster recovery.
• Address long-term data retention needs (up to 22 years) and the potential for a separate Azure subscription for the business unit.
• Migration Strategy & Tooling (Sharegate):
• Utilize Sharegate to facilitate the migration of 7 TB of data from SharePoint 2019 to Azure.
• Ensure the migration preserves metadata, utilizing Sharegate’s ability to export metadata into readable formats like CSV for long-term archival accessibility.
• Provide an end-to-end testing framework to validate data integrity post-migration.
• Automated Infrastructure Provisioning:
• Author Terraform scripts to provision the necessary Azure environment, including networking (private endpoints/tunnels) and identity controls (Entra ID).
• Deliver validated non-production and test environments to allow for immediate migration dry-runs.
• Stakeholder & Financial Reporting:
• Provide clear monthly cost implications and forecasts for the proposed Azure resources.
• Present milestones and technical designs to the client, ensuring they understand the timeline required to hit the mid-July deadline.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Location: Must be based in the UK.
• Architectural Excellence: A proven "architect mindset" with experience creating technical designs that meet stringent enterprise quality standards.
• Sharegate Expertise: Deep hands-on experience using Sharegate for large-scale SharePoint migrations, specifically for extracting data and metadata into file-based archival systems.
• Azure Networking & Security: Expertise in Private Endpoints, secure tunnels, and data encryption at rest and in transit.
• High-Volume Migration: Experience managing large-scale data moves (multiple terabytes) under tight time constraints.
• IaC Skills: Proficiency in Terraform for Azure infrastructure automation.

Critical Success Factors

• Speed of Delivery: The ability to move from requirement gathering to a proposed solution within days to meet the mid-July decommissioning of SharePoint 2019.
• Security Approval: Designing a solution that is "IRR-ready" to bypass the need for unsecure interim platforms.