Cloud Technical Architect

Job details

Location: Aberdeen, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Gatwick, Gibraltar, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Newcastle upon Tyne, Norwich, Nottingham, Plymouth, Reading, South Coast - Southampton, Watford

Capability: Consulting

Experience Level: Manager

Type: Full Time or Part Time

Service Line: Technology & Data

Contract type: Permanent

Job Description

Azure Technical Architect

At KPMG we implement best in class solutions for our clients across the public cloud space. In our Azure practice, our teams harness the very latest technology from Microsoft enabling us to deliver powerful and adaptable cloud solutions to help solve some of our clients most complex and interesting challenges.

The Role:

The Azure Technical Architect is responsible for creating and delivering innovative solutions for our clients. This person must be comfortable working in an agile manner and be able to spot opportunities for the Azure practice, both within KPMG and customer environments. The person should be comfortable presenting Azure services and solutions to technical and non-technical audiences, articulating the benefits to their business, with the goal to drive growth for the Azure practice. The Technical Architect will work directly with clients to oversee the technical delivery of our projects. A good hands-on technical understanding of the Azure platform is critical to be successful in this role.

The Azure Technical Architect will be responsible for:

• Creating architectural designs based on customer requirements.
• Deliver product presentations and configured demonstrations to prove our ability to meet a prospect’s cloud adoption needs.
• Presenting designs and solutions to clients.
• Delivering Azure solutions and work with delivery teams to ensure architectural governance is maintained.
• Drive innovation by developing code base and automated deployments.
• Work on proposals and RFI’s alongside the sales and pre-sales teams.
  
  
  

Core Technical Knowledge Required:

• Ideally a background in on premises infrastructure, virtualisation technologies or applications.
• Proven experience with Azure IaaS (networking, storage, virtual machines).
• Proven experience with Azure Backup & Recovery Services.
• Proven experience with Azure Governance (Blueprints, policies, tagging, cost management).
• Proven experience with Azure SQL (Managed Instances & PaaS).
• Proven experience with Azure Security (NSG,ASG Sentinel, Security Centre, Defender, ACL, Azure Firewall, Policy).
• Proven experience with Azure Serverless and integration (Batch, Function\Logic Apps, EventGrid).
• Proven experience with Azure ACR, ACI, Kubernetes.
• Proven experience with Azure AD including on premises Active Directory.
• Experience with Windows Server\Linux OS
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (ARM\Terraform\PowerShell).
  
  
  

Desirable Technical Skills:

• Azure DevOps
• VMware\Hyper-V
  
  
  

The Person should have 6+ years in cloud or infrastructure delivery:

• Experienced Azure architect with delivery of Microsoft infrastructure (cloud & on-premises) background or application migrations to serverless technologies.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to influence and manage a range of relationships in a complex environment.
• Strong communication skills (verbal, written and listening): an ability to present information concisely, to communicate in a manner applicable to all levels.
• Able to produce high quality and professional presentations.
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to ensure documents are consistent in language, terminology and style.
• Flexible approach to work with a focus on delivery to deadlines and high standards.
• Ability to handle highly confidential information with tact and discretion.
  
  
  

Why Consulting at KPMG?

Technology is a critical focus for us. It underpins everything we do. We're investing in technology like never before – not least because the pace of technological change is disrupting organisations in new and challenging ways. Through advanced data analytics and emerging tech-enabled solutions like AI and machine learning, we're helping clients across diverse sectors to navigate that change. We enable them to avoid any unnecessary risks and to uncover new, transformative opportunities that could give them a competitive edge. A career here means stretching your skills and honing your expertise by solving complex problems as part of a collaborative, results-driven and supportive team. Whether we're helping our clients to reduce their costs, make better decisions, improve efficiencies or deploy the latest technologies, we bring together broad specialisms and talents to deliver robust, connected solutions.