Cloud Architect

IBM

IBM

IT

London, UK

Posted on May 15, 2026
Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting FutureNow Centers, where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

Currently, we are looking for a Lead Azure Architect for our team in the UK.

Your daily responsibilities:

  • Participating in various customer projects, from new infrastructure builds and migrations to audits and big data
  • Implementing configuration management infrastructure
  • Coaching and leading the small Azure team of architects and engineers, leading delivery engagements, and supporting presales and sales architecture
  • People line management such as appraisals, holiday approval, allocating work resources, day to day people management
  • You will become a trusted advisor for high-profile enterprise businesses and jointly manage the customer relationship and roadmap with the Nordcloud Sales team
  • You’ll have a selection of different ‘hats’ to put on and have the luxury of following customer projects from start to release
  • As we have varying opportunities to work internationally, some readiness to travel in the UK and other locations in Europe is required.
Required education
None
Required technical and professional expertise

Your key skills:

  • Hands-on experience with Cloud Architecture Design and/or Cloud Architectural Patterns for Development
  • Experience leading other Cloud Architects and leading delivery engagements
  • Advanced knowledge of Azure (other cloud provider is a plus)
  • Solid engineering/technical background/hands-on experience with conceptualizing, strategizing, and architecting cloud solutions.
  • Windows and/or Linux sys op background
  • Previous experience in the design and delivery of systems based on IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS offerings, as well as exposure to different architecture models
  • DevOps skills for leading the team and consulting the customer
  • Experience with building CI/CD pipelines
  • Knowledge of security, network, virtualization, load balancer, storage, and database
  • Container technologies experience (e.g. Kubernetes, OpenShift)
  • Hands-on experience with IaaC for managing the cloud
  • Coding/scripting skills (Bash, Python, Powershell, or similar)
  • Active customer consultant and pre-sales attitude are a must
  • Fluent communication skills in English

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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