echnology Consulting | Cloud Engineering
Deloitte has an exciting career opportunity for an Azure Architect within the Cloud Engineering team in our large Technology practice. The successful candidate will join Deloitte as a key member of the Cloud Engineering team and will have the opportunity to work in a fast growing and challenging environment with like-minded people who are eminent in their respective technical field. This role would suit someone with previous cloud experience working with clients.

Azure Architect

In partnership with other leaders in the firm, you will focus on delivering cloud solutions using mainly Microsoft Azure and, as a key member of Architecture group, ensure success in building and migrating applications, software and services on Azure cloud.

You will be responsible for

• Leading the design and development of technical solutions based on the Microsoft Platform (using Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure AD, and Microsoft Azure AD B2C) 
• Promote Azure cloud internally to sales and delivery teams to drive growth.
• Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of Microsoft Azure and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the public cloud solutions architect community
• Author or otherwise contribute to public cloud customer-facing publications such as whitepapers
• Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates
• Act as a technical liaison between customers, delivery teams and support.
• Assist clients in maximising business benefit from technology investment.
• Apply proven multidisciplinary techniques and tools to address key issues, including: aligning business and IT strategies and architectures, managing complex business IT transformations, optimising IT performance/value and managing IT costs, in the context of appropriately managing risk and achieving business results.
• Assist our clients in establishing and implementing a vision, road map and governance to address today’s business needs and support future growth.
• Identify where our clients can leverage IT for greatest strategic impact, defining a target IT architecture that supports business requirements and reduces costs.
• Bridge the gap between the business and technology, articulating the business value of technology as an enabler, and the considerations concerning effective IT delivery management practices

• Self-starter with an in-depth hands-on work experience with large-scale implementations of Azure. Experience in other platforms such as AWS or GCP would be a plus.
• 5+ years of overall experience, to include a minimum of 5 years of enterprise, full-life cycle in Architecture in the professional IT/Software Development services industry
• 2+ years project experience migrating and deploying cloud based solutions (GCP, Azure or AWS)
• 2+ years architecting, implementing and supporting Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services infrastructure and topologies
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or equivalent work experience.
• Knowledge of .NET, and cloud technologies development languages and tools, to continue with development
• Has a certification in Azure Architecture, additional certifications in AWS and GCP would  be ideal
• Understanding of Infrastructure as a Service, Infrastructure as Code and related concepts on public cloud.
• Experience with distributed computing, cloud security, IaaS & PaaS architectures, knowledge of big data/analytics, ci/cd, DevOps, SRE and networking concepts.
• Proven experience as a successful senior engineer and/or cloud engineer highly desirable
• Container experience with Docker and Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms
• Understanding of Identity and Access Management, user and system authentication methods and certificates, tokens and certificate management
• Understanding of Agile, SCRUM and Continuous Delivery
• Demonstrated skills in leadership, communication, coaching, analysis, problem solving and short term and long term planning.
• Experienced, persuasive and effective presenter, both written and verbal.
• Experience leading high performance, results driven teams with a focus on client satisfaction.
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills, ability to handle diverse situations, multiple initiatives and rapidly changing priorities.
• Must be a self-starter who requires minimal supervision.