Principal Cloud Architect

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🔥 14 hours ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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☁️ Cloud Engineer

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Telefónica Tech

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

🏥 Healthcare

🛡️ Insurance

🏭 Manufacturing

Healthcare • Insurance • Manufacturing

Telefónica Tech is a leading company providing comprehensive digital transformation solutions. They offer a range of services including Data & AI, Cyber Security, Cloud, Business Applications, and Modern Workplace solutions. Telefónica Tech works with industries such as Public Sector, Healthcare, Financial Services, Insurance, Manufacturing, and Retail to enhance their digital capabilities and ensure efficient, secure, and innovative operations. The company is committed to corporate social responsibility and employs advanced technology to support resilient, scalable, and secure digital solutions for its clients.

📋 Description

• Lead cloud architecture strategy for strategic accounts, major bids, RFPs and complex transformation programmes • Act as delegated design authority for high-value, high-risk or technically ambiguous cloud engagements • Shape enterprise cloud solutions across Azure, AWS, landing zones, migration, modernisation, security, resilience, governance and FinOps • Translate complex business requirements into secure, scalable, supportable and commercially viable architecture recommendations • Provide programme-level architecture direction across multiple projects, workstreams and technical dependencies • Assure complex solution designs and align presales commitments, programme architecture and delivery outcomes • Advise senior customer stakeholders on cloud strategy, transformation roadmaps, architecture options and technical risk • Collaborate with commercial, portfolio, engineering and delivery teams to improve solution viability • Support architecture governance, design reviews and Architecture Review Board activity • Develop reusable reference architectures, design patterns, accelerators and architecture guidance • Mentor Cloud Solutions Architects and Senior Cloud Solutions Architects • Identify opportunities to use automation and AI to improve architecture productivity, assurance and reusable solution development

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience leading architecture for complex, enterprise-scale cloud transformations • Expert knowledge of public cloud architecture, with strong Azure or AWS experience and relevant multi-cloud awareness • Experience operating as a senior design authority across complex, high-risk or commercially sensitive engagements • Strong knowledge of cloud landing zones, migration, modernisation, cloud-native architecture and cloud operating models • Deep understanding of cloud security, identity, networking, resilience, observability, automation, governance and FinOps • Proven experience leading technical strategy for major bids, RFPs, proposals or strategic customer opportunities • Ability to define architecture roadmaps, solution options, reference architectures, design patterns and governance approaches • Strong understanding of platform engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code and operational service transition • Ability to balance customer outcomes, technical quality, cost, risk, delivery practicality and long-term operability • Confidence presenting complex architecture recommendations to senior customer and internal stakeholders • Strong commercial awareness, including scope, assumptions, dependencies, delivery models and technical risk • Experience influencing multidisciplinary teams through technical authority, expertise and trust • Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, including AZ-305 (desirable) • AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Professional (desirable) • TOGAF or equivalent enterprise, solution or security architecture qualification (desirable) • FinOps, cloud governance, cloud security, AI or programme architecture credentials (desirable) • Experience supporting an Architecture Review Board or formal architecture assurance process (desirable) • Experience creating reusable architecture assets, accelerators and standardised design patterns (desirable) • Experience mentoring or developing senior cloud and solution architects (desirable) • Public speaking, technical thought leadership or architecture community leadership experience (desirable)

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work available • Inclusive workplace and accessible hiring practices • Employee Resource Groups, including Diversity and Inclusion, Telefónica Tech Pride, Neurodiversity, ELEVATE (African and Caribbean heritage network), and Sustainability • Opportunities to mentor and develop architects • Opportunities for technical thought leadership and architecture community leadership