Technical Architect You will combine deep technical capability with pragmatic decision-making — balancing delivery speed, reliability, cost, and security in line with Azure Well-Architected principles and modern DORA performance metrics.

Key Responsibilities

• Design scalable, resilient cloud architectures on Azure.
• Apply Well-Architected Framework principles across reliability, security, cost, security, and operational excellence.
• Remain hands-on: review code, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and database design.
• Shape DevOps maturity, ensuring architecture supports improved DORA metrics (Lead Time, Deployment Frequency, Change Failure Rate, MTTR).
• Guide database architecture decisions (relational, NoSQL, performance optimisation, indexing strategies).
• Define integration patterns (APIs, event-driven, microservices) aligned to system scale and complexity.
• Collaborate closely with lead developers and automation testers to ensure architectural decisions improve delivery flow, not hinder it.
• Lead architecture reviews focused on risk, scalability, and operational sustainability.
• Conduct threat modelling and security design reviews where applicable.
• Engage directly with customer stakeholders to explain trade-offs, risks, and long-term implications of design decisions.
• Identify opportunities for modernisation and technical uplift across legacy and cloud-native systems.
• Promote coding and configuration standards – and identify gaps in these.
• Collaborate with developers, testers, and other roles to ensure alignment.
• Oversee CI/CD pipeline design and integration.
• Document architecture decisions in Microsoft SharePoint/Wiki/Git as applicable.
• Identify opportunities for modernization and technical uplift.
• Threat modelling