Cloud Advisory Architecture Consultant

Location:

London. Salary:
Competitive salary and package (Depending on level of experience). Level: 8 & 9 – Senior Consultant & Associate Manager.

• Lead and shape conversations with clients, defining and driving solutions to real‑world problems through a blend of architecture and engineering across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments.
• Set the technical direction, influencing decisions at scale while being backed by industry‑leading training, certifications, and structured coaching and mentoring programmes.
• Drive Strategy & Modernization:
  Partner directly with clients and where necessary our partner ecosystem to translate business goals into technical requirements, defining target operating models and modernization roadmaps.
• Optimize Value:
  Drive system performance and cost‑efficiency, advising clients on Cloud Economics (Fin Ops), sustainability (Green Software), and resilience ensuring high performance, observable architectures especially where GenAI and Agentic play a role.
• Champion system performance, resilience, and efficiency:
  Proactively identifying and addressing consumption and scalability challenges.
• Champion full stack observability using modern full stack observability, SRE and AIOps.
• Ensure Robustness & Security:
  Own the design of enterprise‑wide applications that are highly available, fault‑tolerant, and secure zero trust identity and access management (never trust, always verify).
• Manage & Mentor:
  Lead teams of architects and engineers, providing technical coaching, career counselling, performance management, and coaching to elevate technical excellence.
• Explore Emerging Agentic Architectures:
  Bring a genuine interest in Agentic AI and its potential to reshape how systems are designed and operated.
• Strategic Architecture: A strong command of software architecture with the ability to link technical decisions to business outcomes (e.g., TCO, speed to market).
• Cloud & Integration Fluency:
  Proven experience across one or more cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM), including PaaS and API gateway, IaaS including but not limited to network design, connectivity patterns, zero trust IAM, compute, storage backup, HA and DR strategies, container platforms and orchestration and iPaaS.
• Embrace the Agentic Future:
  Demonstrate a passion for Agentic AI and the opportunities it creates for transforming technology and business operations.
• Hybrid and multi‑cloud:
  Skilled in hybrid architectures and able to demonstrate where legacy meets cloud.
• Operational Excellence: A solid understanding of non‑functional requirements and the ability to translate them into robust architectural decisions for critical infrastructure.
• Advisory
  
  Skills:
  
  The ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non‑technical stakeholders (“Storytelling”) and manage senior client relationships.
• What will set you apart:
  Engineering/Development — Demonstrated experience working close to engineering and teams, ensuring realistic delivery expectations.
• Developer Repo Contributions — Showcase during interview personal or open‑source work, prototypes, accelerators, or reference architectures so that during interview the repo artefacts can be used explain their decisions through architecture diagrams, ADRs, and code samples.
• Eligibility to obtain security clearance.

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