Technical Architect

Technical Architect

UK Remote - Occasional travel to Reading or Glasgow

Salary up to £95,000

SC Clearance eligibility required

We're looking for an experienced Technical Architect to join our Cloud Engineering and Platforms practice. This hands on leadership role involves designing and building secure, automated, and scalable cloud platforms, with a primary focus on Microsoft Azure and a growing multi cloud footprint across AWS and GCP.

This is an ideal opportunity for a pragmatic architect with strong engineering depth and a clear architectural mindset-someone who can articulate what excellence looks like and bring it to life through modern DevOps, automation, and infrastructure as code patterns.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate business needs into secure, scalable architectures usingWellArchitectedFrameworks
• Lead platform architecture and embed NFRs
• Build automated cloud platforms using IaC
• Develop CI/CD pipelines and reusable modules, guardrails, and policy as code to support secure, consistent cloud adoption.
• Apply end to end security across identity, networking, encryption, secrets, MFA, and zero trust.
• Implement automated security scanning (SAST/DAST), dependency checks, and secure pipeline patterns, aligning platforms with organisational and regulatory standards.
• Work across the full project lifecycle.

About You

• Experienced in designing and building secure cloud solutions(ideally Azure, with awareness of AWS or GCP)andcloudready, distributed, scalable architectures
• Skilled at leading technical discussions and articulating architectural decisions,
• AdvancedknowledgeofIaCautomation (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation) with strong DevOps skills across CI/CD pipelines, automation, and modern development practices
• Knowledgeable in cost analysis,optimisation, ROI modelling

Knowledge and Experience of the following would be advantageous

• Consulting or client facing project leadership experience
• Experience with .NET or Python
• Familiar with cloud native security tooling

If you are looking to join a leading consultancy specialising in Digital, Security and AI solutions then this is the role for you.

Bright Purple is an equal opportunities employer: we are proud to work with clients who share our values of diversity and inclusion in our industry.