Lead Enterprise Architect - Cloud Solutions

Required Skills iaas paas aws azure private cloud Job Summary Enterprise Architect – Contract - London Hybrid Location: London (Liverpool Street Office, 1-2 days per week) Duration: 6 Months Role Overview We are looking for an experienced Enterprise Architect / Practice Lead to join a major transformation initiative.

You will take ownership of private cloud, public IaaS/PaaS (AWS and Azure), networking, and digital workplace services, ensuring all transformation strategies and project deliveries comply with best practices and uniform global standards.

This is a high-impact, client-facing role that bridges pre-sales, solutioning, and hands‐on technical design. You will lead architectural alignment between regional business stakeholders and the Global Technology organisation.

Key Responsibilities Strategy & Transformation: Define transformation strategies, present to executive steering committees, and establish clear 1-2 year technical visions. Solution Architecture: Architect highly complex solutions across private cloud, public cloud, networking, and digital workplace environments, balancing cost, performance, and scalability.

Pre-Sales & Delivery: Assist sales and delivery teams with solution design, effort estimation, costing, and successful execution through Deliverability Assessment Reviews (DA Reviews). Technical Leadership: Provide thought leadership on emerging technologies, mentor junior solution architects, and remain hands‐on where required to unblock technical teams.

Governance & Standards: Ensure designs adhere to enterprise architecture standards, cloud industry security best practices (CSA & NIST), and published reference architectures. Essential Skills & Experience Background: Significant professional technical and IT operations experience within a large-scale, multinational technology services environment, backed by a strong systems engineering foundation.

Cloud & Virtualisation: Extensive hands‐on expertise with AWS, Azure, Private Cloud (VMware IaaS, Azure AVS, VxRail, ESX, vSAN), and containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes, CaaS, FaaS, Serverless). Storage Technologies: Demonstrable experience working with Hitachi, Dell, and NetApp storage solutions.

Infrastructure as Code & Tooling: Comprehensive experience implementing and integrating multiple IaC and management toolsets (e.g., Terraform, ServiceNow CMP, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SolarWinds, SCOM) at an enterprise scale.

Architecture & Networking: Deep knowledge of networking principles (TCP/UDP, routing, SDN), Linux / Windows OS internals, multi‐tenanted virtualised platforms, and microservice/event‐driven architectures. Consulting & Communication: Outstanding stakeholder management, client engagement, negotiation, and written/verbal communication skills.

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