Solutions Architect

Cloud Solutions Architect – Azure Data & Microsoft Fabric

Fareham, Hampshire (Hybrid – 3 days office / 2 days home)

Are you an experienced Azure Data professional looking for an opportunity to shape cloud transformation projects from concept to delivery?

We're seeking a Cloud Solutions Architect to join a growing Professional Services team, helping customers unlock the full value of Microsoft Azure Data Services and Microsoft Fabric
. This is a highly visible role combining technical pre-sales, solution architecture, and hands‑on delivery
, allowing you to influence customer outcomes whilst helping to shape future service offerings.

Working closely with sales teams, customers and technical stakeholders, you will design and deliver modern data platforms using Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Fabric. You'll act as a trusted advisor throughout the customer journey, from discovery workshops and solution design through to deployment and optimisation.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys balancing customer-facing architecture with technical delivery and has a passion for helping organisations modernise their data estates.

• Engage with customers to understand business and technical requirements.
• Design Azure-based data and analytics solutions aligned to customer objectives.
• Support bids, proposals and technical pre‑sales engagements.
• Produce solution designs, project scopes and Statements of Work (SOWs).
• Act as a trusted technical advisor throughout the customer lifecycle.

• Design, build and optimise data solutions using Microsoft Fabric and Azure Data Services.
• Develop scalable data pipelines for ingestion, transformation and analytics.
• Implement Fabric components including:
• Lake houses
• Data Warehouses
• Real‑Time Analytics
• One Lake architectures
• Develop and maintain data models and curated datasets.
• Implement monitoring, quality controls and performance optimisation.
• Deliver projects on time, within budget and to agreed standards.
• Contribute to the development of new professional service offerings.
• Mentor and support junior consultants and engineers.
• Promote technical best practice and continuous improvement.
• Stay current with Azure, Fabric and data platform innovations.
• Support compliance with quality and information security standards.

• 3+ years' experience delivering Azure-focused data engineering, analytics or BI projects.
• Strong experience with:
• Microsoft Fabric
• Data warehousing and analytics solutions
• Previous consultancy, customer-facing or professional services experience.
• Experience writing high-level and detailed solution designs.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience supporting technical sales or pre-sales engagements.
• At least three current Microsoft Associate-level certifications.

• Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate (DP-600)
• Azure Solutions Architect or additional Azure Data certifications
• Experience mentoring junior team members
• Exposure to ISO
  27001, ISO
  9001, ITIL or ISO
  20000 environments

• Uncapped variable commission
• 25 days holiday increasing with service (plus bank holidays)
• Birthday day off
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance (4x salary)
• Group income protection
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme