Sr Cloud Solution Architect

We are looking for a senior Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) – Azure Infrastructure, Modernisation & AI to join our Customer Success team. This IC5 role will serve as a trusted technical advisor to strategic enterprise customers, helping them design, modernise and operate secure, resilient and AI-ready solutions on Microsoft Azure. The role requires strong hands-on architecture and engineering depth across Azure infrastructure and platform services, combined with practical experience in application and database modernisation and a strong understanding of how modern Azure platforms enable AI workloads. The successful candidate will work directly with customer architects, engineers and technology leaders to translate business and technical priorities into executable architectures and modernisation roadmaps. They will lead complex engagements from architecture and readiness assessment through migration, modernisation, production deployment and optimisation, while helping customers establish the secure, governed and scalable platform foundations required for AI. As an IC5 CSA, this individual is expected to operate independently in complex customer environments, influence senior technical stakeholders, provide architectural leadership across multiple technology domains, and contribute technical leadership and best practices across the wider CSA community.

Lead Azure architecture and modernisation engagements for strategic enterprise customers, providing deep technical guidance from assessment and architecture through implementation and production adoption. Architect enterprise Azure platforms spanning compute, networking, storage, identity, security, governance, management, observability, business continuity and disaster recovery. Drive end-to-end modernisation, helping customers evolve from traditional infrastructure and virtual-machine-based environments towards modern Azure platform services across infrastructure, applications and databases. Provide strong database architecture and optimisation expertise, particularly across Azure SQL and SQL Server, including migration, performance optimisation, availability, scalability and modernisation patterns. Build AI-ready cloud foundations, helping customers design landing zones, networking, security, identity, governance, infrastructure-as-code and operational capabilities that support Azure AI and Microsoft Foundry workloads in production. Partner with AI and application specialists to help customers take AI solutions beyond experimentation and into secure, scalable and governed production environments. Assess customer estates and develop actionable cloud migration and modernisation roadmaps, identifying technical dependencies, risks, architecture decisions and opportunities to accelerate customer outcomes. Apply architecture best practices for resilience, security, reliability, performance, operational excellence and cost optimisation, helping customers continuously improve the health of their Azure environments. Use Infrastructure as Code, automation, GitHub and AI-assisted engineering practices to accelerate architecture, deployment and modernisation activities. Lead technical workshops, architecture/design sessions, proof-of-concepts and production-readiness engagements with customer engineering and architecture teams. Act as a trusted technical advisor, simplifying complex technology choices, challenging existing assumptions where appropriate, and helping customers make informed architecture decisions. Work closely across Microsoft sales, Customer Success, engineering, Global Delivery, partners and specialist teams to remove technical blockers and accelerate customer solutions into production. Own technical execution against committed customer outcomes and proactively identify opportunities for additional Azure adoption, modernisation and consumption. Contribute technical leadership to the broader CSA community through mentoring, architecture reviews,