Senior Solutions Architect

Atreides helps organisations turn large, complex, multimodal datasets into detailed geospatial data, that can be used for a wide range of use cases. At present, Atreides focuses on providing high-fidelity data that allows customers to make decisions quickly.

Our mission systems team is made up of security engineers, cloud architects and a variety of other technologists, many of whom have served in the armed forces. Between us, we have experience in defence, operational intelligence, law enforcement, large multinational companies and cyber security operations. We obsess about designing products that will change the way governments, international companies and non-profit organisations protect themselves from external threats and hostile adversaries.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Solutions Architect to lead the design and delivery of secure, scalable and resilient Microsoft Azure environments that support critical defence platforms. Alongside your technical work, you will lead a team of solutions architects and engineers. You will set priorities, support their development and make sure work is delivered to a high standard. You will also act as the technical authority when new capabilities are brought into production systems.

You will work with colleagues and stakeholders from a range of disciplines, based around the world, to shape mission-focused cloud strategies that meet strict security and performance requirements. You will make sure your team’s work stays aligned with those strategies.

At Atreides, we believe teams work best when they:

• stay curious and passionate in all aspects of their work
• communicate clearly, directly and openly
• take a “measure twice, cut once” approach
• value and encourage different ideas and technologies
• lead with empathy in everything they do

• Team leadership – coach and develop a high-performing team of architects and engineers, allocate work and encourage a culture of continuous improvement.
• Architectural direction – set the technical direction for Azure landing zones and related services, working with colleagues to agree best-practice patterns and governance.
• Decision-making and governance – chair design reviews, take responsibility for architecture decisions and present options analysis to senior internal and customer stakeholders.
• Solution design – design secure, efficient Azure solutions and plan modular landing zone topologies that deliver scalability, resilience and cost optimisation.
• Infrastructure as Code – deploy and manage Azure infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (e.g. Bicep, Terraform).
• Delivery pipelines – direct the implementation of CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Git Hub Actions, Azure Dev Ops, Git Lab CI/CD) and promote automated testing and release processes.
• New capabilities – lead the introduction of emerging capabilities (e.g. mobile platforms, geospatial analytics, zero-trust architectures) into legacy and hybrid estates.
• Operational performance – lead ongoing monitoring, capacity planning and cost control across cloud workloads.
• Partner liaison – work with defence partners, third-party suppliers and internal teams to make sure solutions meet programme requirements and security policies.
• Documentation and knowledge sharing – maintain architecture standards, patterns and runbooks to support audit readiness and the onboarding of new staff.

• Experience of leading cloud architecture teams on large-scale Azure programmes.
• In-depth knowledge of Azure cloud architecture, infrastructure and engineering, including landing zone design.
• A strong grounding in networking (VPNs, firewalls, routing and switching) and secure-by-design principles.
• Experience of overseeing IaC…