Principal Cloud Architect - Scottish Government - G7

Principal Cloud Architect - Scottish Government - G7

Apply for the Principal Cloud Architect - Scottish Government - G7 role at Manchester Digital.

Location:

Edinburgh, Scotland, EH11 3XD

Can you help shape the future of Scotland’s digital public services by leading the design of secure, scalable, and forward‑thinking technology solutions? As Principal Cloud Architect, you will join the Architecture team within Information & Technology Services (iTECS), part of the Scottish Government’s Digital Directorate. iTECS provides corporate ICT services to the Scottish Government and over 50 public sector bodies, supporting around 22,000 users across Scotland.

Our mission is to deliver robust, secure, and innovative technology aligned with national digital priorities.

In this role, you will lead the design, integration, and governance of Microsoft cloud platforms such as Azure and M365. You will act as a subject‑matter expert, shaping technical roadmaps, ensuring security and operational compliance, and guiding teams in applying best practice architecture standards. Working closely with product, engineering, and wider DDaT colleagues, you will ensure that services and systems are robust, scalable, and aligned with organisational strategy, supporting the evolving needs of Scottish public services.

• Present recommendations for technologies or system improvements to support project goals, based on IT knowledge and analysis of business and system needs.
• Evaluate the success of integrated solutions, identifying best practices and lessons learned.
• Act as a key contributor to architecture governance activities, ensuring the adoption of best practice and appropriate technology architecture standards.
• Contribute to the overall technical strategy and roadmap for the department within your area of expertise.
• Own the technical roadmap for services across a defined domain.
• Develop and document technical designs for the integration and implementation of technology solutions, working across DDaT and wider business teams.
• Ensure designs meet required security and operational standards.
• Act as a subject‑matter expert, ensuring recommendations and designs align with wider organisational and cross‑government strategies.
• Own designated digital components, ensuring their design and implementation align with broader architectural patterns and direction.

• Demonstrating a detailed knowledge of technical requirements to implement, design and manage a range of Microsoft technologies including 365, Azure and Power Platform technologies.
• Designing complex technology solutions recognising time, cost and quality targets and constraints.
• Providing technical leadership and expertise on large projects or critical work streams in larger programmes.
• Anticipating and advising on future technology that presents opportunities for the Scottish Microsoft Platform.

This role is aligned to the Technical Architect job role within the Architecture job family. You can find out more about the skills required, here.

• Managing a Quality Service - (Level
  4)
• Making Effective Decisions - (Level
  4)

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Engineering and Information Technology

Technology, Information and Internet