Senior Architect - Azure

Join our Architecture Services team!

Our Architecture Services team leads end to end solution design for customers of all sizes, bridging presales insight with robust, delivery-ready architectures. We combine strategic thinking with deep technical expertise to create innovative, future-proof solutions that drive real business outcomes.

As a team we lead the design and technical direction of solutions across our Corporate, Public Sector, and Enterprise customer base. Operating across the full customer lifecycle-from early-stage engagement and presales through design activities, and handover to the implementation and support functions. Our team ensures that every solution is innovative, scalable, and aligned to the customer's business objectives.

Success. The Softcat Way.

It's an exciting time to be at Softcat, one of the UK's most successful technology solutions businesses. We help customers to use technology to succeed, by putting our employees first. We've reached the £1 billion+ pa revenue milestone, opened our first office outside the UK and picked up a series of industry awards. We've got even bigger plans for the future. So, if you share our drive and ambition, get ready to achieve more from your career.

As a Senior Solutions Architect within the cloud solutions team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping technology outcomes for our customers specifically focused on the Microsoft Azure Platform. You will act as both a strategic advisor and a hands-on architect, translating business needs into practical, future-ready designs that can be successfully implemented by our internal delivery team, or directly by our customers. Your expertise will span multiple technology domains, allowing you to connect strategic vision with technical depth.

As Senior Architect - Azure, you'll be responsible for:

• Continually demonstrate the skills and abilities of a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Azure principles, including the pillars of Well-Architected and the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure.
• Demonstrate and continually develop skills, expertise, and knowledge in the design of hybrid and cloud-based solutions and architectures comprehensively covering key areas such as:
• Demonstrate a keen interest in leading-edge technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) with a view to delivering consultative services developed by Softcat to assist customer journeys.
• Demonstrate and continually develop skills and knowledge in key areas of value as identified by the Softcat cloud roadmap and service development strategies.
• Take responsibility for producing high quality design documentation (Technical Proposals, High Level Designs, diagrams, Statements of Work etc.) when required within a given project or customer engagement.
• Be responsible for working with the Public Cloud Professional Services and other teams, providing a bridge between Design, implementation, and Support.
• Able to provide mentoring and enablement support to junior members of the team and the wider business.
• Applicants must understand the R's strategy and how to apply them to workloads operating within the customers' existing environment(s) with relevance to migration of workloads to the cloud.

We'd love you to have

• You must have already achieved the Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Associate and Expert certifications; additional Azure related certifications are also very beneficial.
• You should be able to demonstrate awareness of on-premises infrastructure technologies and how they map to Azure or other cloud services to enable smooth transitions for customers who are migrating to the cloud.
• Experience of working within a Managed Service Provider organisation and supporting Managed Service Customers would be of benefit.
• Awareness of Serverless technologies and how developers can use these to build scalable and robust services and applications.
• As a Senior Azure Solutions Architect, you will strive to maintain awareness of newly released services and improved capabilities on the Azure platform and disseminate this information to other members of the team.
• You will possess consultative skills in a presales context, with the ability to identify customer challenges, requirements, and business needs
• You should be able to work independently as well as part of a team to achieve results.

We also acknowledge that the confidence gap and imposter syndrome are a real thing and can get in the way of us meeting fantastic talent, so please don't hesitate to apply - we would love to hear from you!

Work in a way that works for you

We recognise that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

• Hybrid working
• Working flexible hours - flexing the times you start and finish during the day
• Flexibility around school pick up and drop offs

Working with us

Wherever you work, we want you to experience the freedom and autonomy to realise your potential. You will feel supported by a team that celebrates individuality, encourages different perspectives, and embraces every background.

Join us

To become part of the success story, please apply now.

If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we can provide support or adjustments that you may need throughout our recruitment process or any mitigating circumstance you wish for us to consider. Any information you share on your application will be treated in confidence. You can find out more about life at Softcat and our commitments to diversity and inclusion at

Here at Softcat, we don't prohibit the use of AI (artificial intelligence) in our application process, as we understand how far it can go to creating a truly equitable candidate experience. That being said, as a culture-driven organisation, we believe that the genuine essence of each person is what truly matters, so we highly encourage you to be as authentically you as possible when submitting your application to showcase your true and whole self.