Azure Cloud Architect (Infrastructure)

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Why you'll enjoy this new opportunity

At Deloitte, our purpose is to make an impact that matters, and as a Cloud Architect within our Engineering team, you will be at the forefront of this mission.

• This is an exciting opportunity to join a practice widely recognised for its insight, expertise, and the quality of its work.
• You will lead the design and development of cutting-edge technical solutions on the Microsoft Platform, including Azure, Azure AD, and Azure AD B2C, addressing complex client challenges and driving significant digital transformation.
• This role offers a unique platform to educate customers, build deep technical relationships, and shape strategic IT architectures, providing ample leadership opportunities and a direct impact on our clients' success and our firm's growth ambitions. You will thrive in an innovative, collaborative, and supportive culture dedicated to your personal and professional development.

Key skills and prior experience that align well with this position

We are seeking a self-starter with a proven track record in architecting and implementing large-scale cloud solutions. Ideal candidates will possess:

• Extensive Cloud Architecture Experience: In-depth, hands-on experience with large-scale implementations of Microsoft Azure, coupled with extensive enterprise, full-life cycle architecture experience in the professional IT/Software Development services industry. Experience with AWS or GCP is a significant advantage.
• Migration and Optimisation Expertise: A strong background in planning and executing cloud migration strategies (e.g. rehost, replatform, refactor) and optimising cloud services for performance and cost, including a deep understanding of cloud pricing models and cost control mechanisms.
• Technical Leadership & Governance: Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership and mentorship to cloud engineering teams, develop robust cloud governance frameworks, and design scalable, resilient, and secure cloud architectures.
• Certifications & Modern Cloud Concepts: Possess an Azure Architecture certification (additional AWS/GCP certifications are preferred) and a solid understanding of Infrastructure as a Service, Infrastructure as Code, distributed computing, cloud security, IaaS & PaaS architectures, DevOps, SRE, and containerisation technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.

Success In The Role:

• Lead Solution Design & Delivery: Successfully lead the design and development of at least two complex technical solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform, ensuring they meet client business needs for scalability, resilience, and security.
• Drive Client Engagement & Advocacy: Actively engage with senior technical individuals within client organisations, fostering strong relationships and effectively educating them on the value proposition of Microsoft Azure, leading to increased cloud adoption.
• Contribute to Practice Growth: Proactively promote Azure cloud capabilities internally to sales and delivery teams, contributing to new business opportunities and sharing best-practice knowledge within the public cloud solutions architect community.
• Architectural Excellence & Governance: Establish and implement a clear vision, roadmap, and governance framework for a key client, identifying strategic IT impacts and defining target architectures that align with business requirements and optimise costs.

What type of work will I be doing?

As a Cloud Architect, your work will be dynamic and impactful, typically involving:

• Solution Architecture & Design: Leading the design and development of technical solutions on the Microsoft Platform (Azure, Azure AD, Azure AD B2C), ensuring they are scalable, resilient, and secure. This includes selecting appropriate cloud services, defining migration strategies, and designing disaster recovery and high availability architectures.
• Client Advisory & Relationship Management: Engaging in deep architectural discussions with clients, educating them on Azure's value, building strong technical relationships, and acting as a liaison between clients, delivery teams, and support. This also involves assisting clients in establishing IT vision, roadmap, and governance.
• Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Providing technical leadership and mentorship to cloud engineering teams, assessing project architecture, providing constructive feedback, and contributing to the development of cloud governance frameworks.
• Innovation & Best Practices: Capturing and sharing best-practice knowledge, evaluating emerging cloud technologies, conducting proof-of-concepts, and contributing to internal and external publications.

Who is the Hiring Manager?

The hiring manager for this role is a seasoned leader within Deloitte Consulting's Engineering team. They bring extensive expertise in cloud architecture, with a focus on delivering innovative solutions that drive client value. Their leadership style is collaborative and empowering, fostering an environment where team members are encouraged to take ownership, innovate, and continuously develop their skills. They value technical excellence, strategic thinking, and a proactive approach to problem-solving, believing in strong mentorship and providing clear pathways for career progression.

Where is this role based?

This role is based in Dublin. We operate a hybrid working model, blending office-based collaboration with remote work flexibility, allowing you to balance personal and professional commitments effectively. There may be requirements for occasional travel to client sites as needed to support project delivery and client engagement. For more information on our flexible working approach, please visit our Deloitte Works webpage.

Rewards and Benefits of working at Deloitte Ireland

At Deloitte, your reward is competitive and supports our purpose of helping you never stop growing.

We believe in investing in our people's personal and professional development and empowering their work-life balance.

We offer a range of supports and benefits that suit you, wherever you are in life, including health and well-being, pension, savings, learning & development and enhanced leave options. You'll also be part of an inclusive culture that encourages you to bring your full self to work every day. For more review our Rewards & Benefits webpage.

If you believe that you meet most of the criteria above, we encourage you to apply. Deloitte is an equal opportunities employer and will ensure any reasonable accommodations are implemented as part of the recruitment and selection process.​

What we offer

Your reward at Deloitte is competitive, supports our purpose and enables our people to never stop growing. Your reward at Deloitte is not just your salary, we believe in investing in our people's personal and professional development and empowering their work-life balance. Our ambition is to achieve gender equality and enable continuous growth. We offer supports and benefits that suit you, wherever you are in life, including health and well-being, pension, savings, training, coaching and enhanced leave options among others.

Keep on being you. Bring your full, absolute self to work, every day. Explore, question and collaborate. Stretch your thinking, while building a career that inspires and energises you. And, whatever motivates you, keep growing both professionally and personally – because when you make an impact that matters, we do too.