Senior Cloud Solutions Architect

Telefonica Tech

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About The Position

Telefónica Tech is hiring a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect to take technical ownership of complex cloud solutions across customer opportunities, bids, and live delivery engagements. The role shapes secure, scalable, resilient, and commercially viable solutions on Azure and/or AWS, from early architecture through delivery assurance. It is highly customer-facing and involves influencing technical direction, addressing complex architecture challenges, and translating cloud transformation requirements into solutions that engineering teams can deliver.

The architect works across the full solution lifecycle, including presales and delivery. They lead discovery and design discussions, produce and assure architecture documentation, govern technical decisions, and help ensure that solutions developed during presales remain aligned with what is ultimately delivered. The role also contributes to reusable architecture standards and patterns and helps develop the wider architecture team through mentoring and knowledge sharing.

Requirements

• Deep expertise in Microsoft Azure and/or AWS within complex enterprise cloud environments.
• Strong cloud architecture knowledge across IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, networking, identity, security, governance, and operations.
• Experience designing cloud migration, modernisation, landing zone, platform, or cloud-native solutions.
• Proven experience leading complex solution architecture and producing implementation-ready architecture documentation.
• Good understanding of DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, automation, and platform engineering principles.
• Experience contributing to or leading bids, RFPs, proposals, and customer solution development.
• Strong understanding of architecture governance, technical assurance, and design decision-making.
• Ability to lead technical discussions confidently with technical and non-technical customer stakeholders.
• Ability to balance customer requirements, technical quality, delivery risk, and commercial considerations.

Nice To Haves

• Experience across both Azure and AWS.
• Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) certification or equivalent practical experience.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional certification or equivalent practical experience.
• TOGAF or another recognised architecture framework or certification.
• Experience with FinOps, cloud governance, cloud security, and operational readiness.
• Experience mentoring architects or other technical professionals.
• Public speaking, technical thought leadership, or knowledge-sharing experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead solution architecture for complex cloud migration, modernisation, landing zone, platform, security, and cloud-native engagements.
• Shape technical solutions for customer opportunities, bids, and RFPs, balancing technical quality, commercial viability, and delivery practicality.
• Design secure, scalable, and resilient Azure and/or AWS solutions across infrastructure, networking, identity, governance, and operations.
• Produce and assure HLDs, LLDs, reference architectures, design documentation, and architectural decisions.
• Lead customer discovery sessions, technical workshops, design reviews, and solution playback sessions.
• Work with Cloud Engineering and Delivery teams to ensure architectures are practical, implementable, and operationally sound.
• Provide architecture governance and design assurance, identifying risks, dependencies, constraints, and exceptions before they affect delivery.
• Maintain alignment between presales solutions and the solutions ultimately delivered.
• Contribute to cloud architecture standards, reusable patterns, blueprints, and reference designs.
• Mentor Cloud Solutions Architects and strengthen architecture capability and best practice across the team.

Benefits

• An inclusive culture that welcomes applicants from all backgrounds and identities.
• Accessible hiring practices.
• Employee Resource Groups, including Diversity and Inclusion, Telefónica Tech Pride, Neurodiversity, ELEVATE, and Sustainability.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed