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About the Role

This is a senior technical leadership opportunity for an experienced cloud architect to shape major cloud transformations, strategic bids, and complex customer solutions. You will act as a delegated design authority across high-value and high-risk engagements, ensuring cloud solutions are secure, scalable, commercially viable, and deliverable. You will influence architecture strategy, advise senior customers, and improve architecture capability across the wider team.

Responsibilities

Lead the cloud architecture strategy for strategic accounts, major bids, RFPs, and complex transformation programmes.
Act as a delegated design authority for high-value, high-risk, or technically ambiguous cloud engagements.
Shape enterprise cloud solutions across Azure, AWS, landing zones, migration, modernisation, security, resilience, governance, and FinOps.
Translate complex business requirements into secure, scalable, supportable, and commercially viable architecture recommendations.
Provide programme-level architecture direction across multiple projects, workstreams, and technical dependencies.
Assure complex solution designs and ensure alignment between presales commitments, programme architecture, and delivery outcomes.
Advise senior customer stakeholders on cloud strategy, transformation roadmaps, architecture options, and technical risk.
Work with commercial, portfolio, engineering, and delivery teams to challenge assumptions and improve solution viability.
Support architecture governance, design reviews, and Architecture Review Board activity for strategic engagements.
Develop reusable reference architectures, design patterns, accelerators, and architecture guidance.
Mentor Cloud Solutions Architects and Senior Cloud Solutions Architects, improving design quality and consistency across the team.
Identify opportunities to use automation and AI to improve architecture productivity, assurance, and reusable solution development.

Requirements

Significant experience leading architecture for complex, enterprise-scale cloud transformations.
Expert knowledge of public cloud architecture, with strong Azure or AWS experience and relevant multi-cloud awareness.
Experience operating as a senior design authority across complex, high-risk, or commercially sensitive engagements.
Strong knowledge of cloud landing zones, migration, modernisation, cloud-native architecture, and cloud operating models.
Deep understanding of cloud security, identity, networking, resilience, observability, automation, governance, and FinOps.
Proven experience leading the technical strategy for major bids, RFPs, proposals, or strategic customer opportunities.
Ability to define architecture roadmaps, solution options, reference architectures, design patterns, and governance approaches.
Strong understanding of platform engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, and operational service transition.
Ability to balance customer outcomes, technical quality, cost, risk, delivery practicality, and long-term operability.
Confidence presenting complex architecture recommendations to senior customer and internal stakeholders.
Strong commercial awareness, including scope, assumptions, dependencies, delivery models, and technical risk.
Experience influencing multidisciplinary teams through technical authority, expertise, and trust.
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, including AZ-305.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Professional.
TOGAF or an equivalent enterprise, solution, or security architecture qualification.
FinOps, cloud governance, cloud security, AI, or programme architecture credentials.
Experience supporting an Architecture Review Board or formal architecture assurance process.
Experience creating reusable architecture assets, accelerators, and standardised design patterns.
Experience mentoring or developing senior cloud and solution architects.
Public speaking, technical thought leadership, or architecture community leadership experience.

Skills

Cloud Architecture
Azure
AWS
Multi-cloud
Cloud Landing Zones
Migration
Modernisation
Cloud-Native Architecture
Cloud Operating Models
Cloud Security
Identity Management
Networking
Resilience
Observability
Automation
Governance
FinOps
Platform Engineering
DevOps
Infrastructure as Code
Service Transition
AI

Location

Work Type

Full time

Experience Level

Principal
Senior

Education Level

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Professional
TOGAF or equivalent enterprise, solution, or security architecture qualification
FinOps, cloud governance, cloud security, AI, or programme architecture credentials

About the Company

Telefónica Tech (part of the Telefónica Group) is a leading NextGen Tech solutions provider with a highly diversified team of over 6,000 exceptionally skilled employees and +60 nationalities.
They serve more than 5.5m customers every day in over 175 countries, with a global ecosystem of market-leading partners.
Global strategic hubs include Spain, Brazil, the UK, and Germany.
The Telefónica Tech UK&I hub has an end-to-end portfolio of market-leading services and develops integrated technology solutions to accelerate digital transformation through Cloud, Data & AI, Enterprise Applications, Workplace Services, and Cyber Security & Networking.
Company values are Open, Trusted, and Bold.
Trusted Partners include Microsoft, HPE, Fortinet, Palo Alto, and Crowdstrike.

Equal Opportunity

Telefónica Tech believes inclusion is the bridge that empowers everyone to be their authentic selves.
They celebrate and respect differences because diversity drives innovation and makes them stronger.
They welcome applicants from all backgrounds and identities regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
They are committed to equity, accessible hiring practices, and creating an inclusive culture through many means including TogetHer (Women's network) and their Employee Resource Groups which include Diversity and Inclusion, Telefónica Tech Pride, Neurodiversity, ELEVATE (African and Caribbean heritage network), and Sustainability.
They encourage individuals who may not meet 100% of the job description criteria but feel they would be a great fit for the role to get in touch.