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Chief Cloud & AI Platform Architect

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Job Description:

Step into a role where your expertise shapes the technology strategy for some of the UK’s most ambitious enterprises. This role sits in the Sales organisation and is focused on our largest customers who have made commercial commitments to Azure. As a senior technical leader and Azure strategic expert, you’ll be responsible for driving delivery excellence, technical innovation, and strategic execution across large and complex Azure and AI engagements. In this pivotal Chief Architect position, you’ll partner directly with C-level executives and senior stakeholders to align technology with business objectives—ensuring security, resilience, and performance at every level. If you’re passionate about making a measurable impact and leading cloud transformation at the highest level, this is your opportunity to shine.

Job Responsibility:

  • Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders and executives (e.g., CTO, CIO) at large enterprise customers, helping define and execute transformative Cloud & AI strategies
  • Providing technical vision and leadership for complex, high-impact projects
  • Proactively using expert knowledge in customer conversations to influence solutions and drive consumption
  • Lead and accelerate Azure consumption plans, ensuring alignment to customer success
  • Inspire customer innovation by helping them adopt AI at scale, guiding them through their transformation journey with confidence and clarity
  • Anticipate and resolve critical business and technical challenges to accelerate value realisation
  • Lead architectural design workshops and oversee the implementation and quality assurance of secure, scalable, and resilient end-to-end solutions, leveraging Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF), Well-Architected Framework (WAF), and best practices to optimize mission-critical workloads
  • Collaborate with account teams and leadership to support account planning, deal creation, and execution of consumption and customer success plans
  • Share responsibility for Azure and Unified Health within accounts, supporting expansion, renewal, and next-best workload motions
  • Demonstrate mastery across AI applications, infrastructure, and data, enabling production-scale AI use cases
  • Stay ahead of the curve by maintaining advanced certifications and deep technical expertise across priority workloads such as Azure AI Foundry, GitHub, App Services, Databricks, Fabric, and more
  • Demonstrate a growth mindset by continuously developing your skills, aligning with business priorities, and contributing to a culture of learning and excellence
  • Mentor and upskill the technical community fostering a culture of learning and innovation. This includes, acting as a spokesperson and thought leader both internally and externally

Requirements:

  • Ability to secure up to UK DV security clearance
  • Strong leadership and communication skills, with experience engaging at the C-suite level
  • Demonstrated ability to drive technical strategy, optimise cloud consumption, and deliver measurable business outcomes
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 12+ years experience in cloud technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting
  • OR equivalent experience

Nice to have:

  • 8+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external)
  • 8+ years experience working on technical projects
  • Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications)

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 04, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
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On-site work
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