Cloud Solutions Architect

Location

Cardiff | United Kingdom

Job description

Are you looking for an opportunity to join an innovative, creative and energetic digital transformation organisation? Mobilise Cloud Services is a small yet growing digital transformation consultancy, that continuously punches above our weight!

We demonstrate this consistently with our clients, and through our partnerships with AWS and Microsoft. We are currently progressing towards premier AWS partner level, one of the only organisations of our size to achieve this level.

We have a number of opportunities to bring great talent in to Mobilise Cloud Services, throughout 2024. We are keen to speak to people who have the right aptitude, and drive and desire to learn and develop in our roles, so please do not feel that you have to meet all the requirements within the role profile.

We are confident in our internal expertise to develop our people and provide learning and development pathways, through our learning platform, on-boarding, and support of our brilliant existing team!

We are committed to creating a “Mobilise Journey’ for all our colleagues, which allows for transparent and fair visibility of our grading/banding structure and the competencies/skills that are required to progress rapidly through Mobilise.

If this sounds like something you would love to be a part of then please apply for the role here. Or alternatively feel free to visit our careers site to review other opportunities and to find out a little more about Mobilise Cloud Services:

(Hybrid working model: 2 days in South Wales office, and 3 days WFH)

As a Cloud Solutions Architect at Mobilise, you will have the opportunity to provide support to a wide range of high-profile UK public sector organisations.

With expertise in translating business requirements into technology requirements and defining standards and principles.

This role will require you to lead assignments and be responsible for supervising direct reports whilst ensuring the overall success of the client engagement.

This role will involve significant stakeholder engagement, dealing directly with the client, including in resolving day-day issues involved in assignment delivery and developing follow-on opportunities, so excellent interpersonal and influencing skills are essential.

Day to day responsibilities for the Cloud Solutions Architect include:

• Work closely with the business in identifying solution requirements and key case-studies/scenarios for the future solution.

• Design and prototype cloud infrastructure, create infrastructure and security architecture documents covering deep technical aspects of the implementation.

• Lead implementation of the solution from establishing project requirements and goals to solution "go-live".

• Oversee the cloud system engineering efforts and provide technical help as needed.

• Day-to-day lead the client through the technical and organisational challenges of Cloud transformation.

• Suggest competitive and innovative technical decisions, get client buy-in and deliver on commitments.

• Participate in the full cycle of pre-sale activities, including RFP processing, proposal development and direct communications with potential clients.

• Maintain a strong understanding of industry trends and best practices.

• Consult and provide technical guidance on cloud solutions design, build, governance, security, operations and cost control best practices.

• Create proof of concepts, demos, and/or scripts from scratch or leveraging reusable components.

Qualifications and Experience:

Mobilise work predominantly within the UK Public Sector, so experience within this sector is desirable. The fast-moving nature of our environment, together with the need to resource multiple, ad-hoc assignments, also requires our consultants to be quick thinkers, proactive and self-motivated – with the ability to apply a structured approach to often unfamiliar subject matter.

The following attributes and areas of experience will make you particularly suited to this role with Mobilise:

• Expertise in traditional IT and data architecture, with a desire to work more in AWS and Azure Cloud - our training programmes will provide the transitional skills.
• Expertise in cloud architecture and history of successful implementation of complex cloud first solutions.

• Experience architecting or deploying cloud solutions in enterprise customer environments.

• Experience architecting, designing and migrating workloads to AWS/Azure.

• Strong communication skills, ability to present technical ideas in business-friendly language.

• Analytical and problem-solving abilities.

We offer:

• Salary £60k-£85k (D.O.E)

• Entry into bonus scheme.

• Entry into workplace pension scheme. 

• Medicash – Personal Health Plan

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Clear Development Plan via Udemy. 

• 25 days holidays per annum plus bank holidays.

• Cycle to work scheme.

Mobilise are an equal opportunities employer and we are committed to equality of opportunity for all. Applications from all individuals are encouraged and Mobilise will not discriminate either directly or indirectly on the grounds of race, nationality, ethnic origin, gender, marital status, pregnancy, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, ethnicity, cultural or religious beliefs. Reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process will be made to ensure that no applicant is disadvantaged because of their disability.

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