Azure Architect

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Sword Group

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1001 - 5000 employees

☁️ SaaS

🔒 Cybersecurity

SaaS • Cybersecurity • Cloud

Sword Group is a global leader in technology transformation, providing IT solutions and digital services to streamline business operations, improve quality, and reduce costs. With over 2,700 employees and more than 1,000 customers in 50 countries, the company offers expertise in software development, cloud services, cybersecurity, data and AI, and digital workplace solutions. Sword Group supports digital transformation efforts by leveraging Microsoft 365 and Azure, enhancing productivity, security, and data-driven decision-making. Additionally, they provide managed services and information management solutions to optimize the entire information lifecycle.

📋 Description

• Develop comprehensive Azure architecture designs encompassing infrastructure, platform services, networking, security, and governance. • Advise clients on best practices for cloud adoption, migration strategies, and hybrid cloud integration. • Create detailed architecture documentation, diagrams, and technical specifications to support implementation and governance. • Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery. • Lead architectural reviews and enforce policies ensuring compliance with regulatory and organisational standards. • Stay current with Azure technology trends and innovations to recommend improvements and optimisations. • Own end to end technical delivery, including planning, build, testing, deployment and operational handover.

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience designing and delivering Microsoft Azure cloud solutions at enterprise scale. • Strong knowledge of Azure infrastructure services, PaaS offerings, security, networking, and governance. • Experience with Azure DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (Bicep, ARM templates & Terraform), and automation tools. • Understanding of hybrid cloud architectures and integration with on-premises environments. • Deep working knowledge and understanding of Microsoft CAF and WAF • Familiarity with compliance standards relevant to energy, finance, or public sectors. • Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts to diverse audiences. • Experience with identity management solutions such as Entra ID. • Strong pre-sales capabilities and proven track record for designing complex solutions for a range of customers, from Mid-market to Enterprise scale. • Experience of designing and successfully delivering solutions, including the creation of proposals, SoW’s, high-level designs, RFP responses, roadmaps and strategies. • 5+ years of experience in either a channel, vendor or customer side hands-on technical consulting/ architect role • Strong background of producing high quality documentation and solution artefacts. • Microsoft certifications and accreditations in Azure such as AZ-305, AZ-700 and AZ-500 essential for this role • Microsoft certifications and accreditations in Azure such as AZ-140, AI-102 and SC-300 desirable but not essential • Experience designing and implementation solutions with AWS beneficial • Experience and knowledge of Microsoft, ZeroTrust, NCSC, NIST, ISO27001 and Cyber Essentials frameworks and best practice and how they translate to controls, policies and configuration baselines valuable • Strong understanding of software development lifecycle and methodologies such as Agile and DevOps. • Experience in planning and migrating from on-premises or Cloud to Microsoft Azure using tools such as ASR, Azure Migrate and data migration assistant etc. • PowerShell, Graph API and automation

🏖️ Benefits

• Personalised Career Development: We create a development plan customised to your goals and aspirations, with a range of learning and development opportunities within a culture that encourages growth. • Flexible working: Flexible work arrangements to support your work-life balance. We can’t promise to always be able to meet every request, however, are keen to discuss your individual preferences to make it work where we can. • A Fantastic Benefits Package: This includes generous annual leave allowance, enhanced family friendly benefits, pension scheme, access to private health, well-being, and insurance schemes.