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About the Role
We're seeking a Senior Application Modernisation Architect to help organizations unlock greater value from their application estate. This role involves pre-sales and delivery, customer engagement, shaping modernization strategies, influencing technical decisions, and delivering transformational cloud-native solutions. It's an opportunity to combine architecture, consulting, and hands-on technical expertise while contributing to a rapidly expanding practice.
Responsibilities
- Lead customer discovery workshops to understand application landscapes, business challenges, and transformation goals.
- Shape application modernisation strategies and cloud adoption roadmaps aligned to business outcomes.
- Design modern application solutions leveraging Microsoft Azure and cloud-native technologies.
- Support technical sales activities through solution design, proposals, presentations, and customer demonstrations.
- Develop Statements of Work including scope, assumptions, delivery approach, and effort estimation.
- Conduct application portfolio assessments, dependency analysis, and modernisation planning.
- Define migration and transformation approaches using recognised frameworks including 7Rs.
- Provide architectural guidance across modernisation and software development initiatives.
- Collaborate with architects, engineers, and delivery teams to ensure successful implementation.
- Contribute to service development, sales enablement content, case studies, and solution accelerators.
Requirements
- Experience in solution architecture, software development, or technical consulting.
- Strong understanding of Microsoft Azure and modern cloud application architectures.
- Knowledge of application modernisation strategies and migration approaches.
- Experience with containers, APIs, serverless architectures, PaaS services, and DevOps practices.
- Ability to translate technical concepts into clear business-focused recommendations.
- Experience engaging with customers, stakeholders, and technical teams.
- Strong communication, presentation, and solution design skills.
- Ability to work across multiple customer engagements simultaneously.
- Experience delivering cloud transformation or digital modernisation programmes.
- Knowledge of application assessment and portfolio analysis methodologies.
- Experience building technical proposals and participating in pre-sales activities.
- Familiarity with enterprise application environments and legacy modernisation challenges.
- Exposure to hyperscaler platforms and emerging cloud-native technologies.
- Desire to progress into a lead architecture or solutioning role.
Skills
- Microsoft Azure
- Cloud-native technologies
- Containers
- APIs
- Serverless architectures
- PaaS services
- DevOps practices
- Solution architecture
- Software development
- Technical consulting
- Application modernisation
- Migration approaches
- Cloud transformation
- Digital modernisation
- Application assessment
- Portfolio analysis
- Technical proposals
- Pre-sales activities
- Hyperscaler platforms
Location
- UK&I
Work Type
- Full time
Experience Level
- Senior
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 employees and +60 nationalities.
- They serve over 5.5m customers daily in over 175 countries, with a global ecosystem of market-leading partners.
- The Telefónica Tech UK&I hub offers an end-to-end portfolio of market-leading services and develops integrated technology solutions for digital transformation through Cloud, Data & AI, Enterprise Applications, Digital Workplace, and Cyber Security & Networking.
- Values: Open, Bold, Trusted.
- Trusted Partners include Microsoft, HPE, Palo Alto, Crowdstrike, Fortinet, and AWS.
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 initiatives like TogetHer (Women's network) and Employee Resource Groups (Diversity and Inclusion, Telefónica Tech Pride, Neurodiversity, ELEVATE, and Sustainability).
- They encourage applications even if candidates don't match the job description 100% but feel they would be a great fit.