Cloud Capability Lead - Azure

Responsibilities

• Architecture decisions, security best practice, design and build documentation, and QA on solutions built on the engagements you're staffed on, and as an escalation point elsewhere in the Azure capability.
• Scoping, estimating and solutioning Azure-aligned opportunities, proposals and tender responses, and contributing to Statements of Work with appropriate commercial protection.
• The Microsoft partnership.

Key Responsibilities

• Client delivery.
• Personally lead design, build and implementation work on our most complex Azure engagements, providing senior technical leadership within engagement teams.
• Technical quality.
• Azure technical standards.
• Architecture principles, security baselines and tooling choices for the capability, grounded in your own current delivery experience rather than written from the sidelines.
• Presales and commercial input.
• Competencies, specialisations and co-sell relationships that help Colibri get the most from its Microsoft partnership.
• Capability growth.
• Mentoring and technical input into recruitment for the Azure team, working alongside our POD Leads who own the people management side.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

You'll have spent the majority of a 10–15+ year career in cloud/infrastructure consulting designing and delivering Microsoft Azure solutions at architect level, and you'll still want to be hands-on rather than purely advisory.

We're particularly interested in evidence that you have

• Operated as a senior technical authority on Azure engagements, able to influence technical and commercial decisions with clients, partners and internal stakeholders.
• A current or recent Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification (or equivalent), ideally with relevant specialisations such as security, networking or landing zones.
• Direct experience of presales, solutioning, estimating and contributing to commercial proposals or SOWs.
• A track record of growing a technical capability's standards, skills and reputation within a consultancy, MSP or systems integrator without necessarily holding formal line management responsibility.
• Existing relationships with, or credible experience working within, the Microsoft partner ecosystem.
• Excellent stakeholder, communication and technical-writing skills, with the gravitas to operate at senior client and partner level.

Benefits

• A very competitive salary
• Salary Sacrifice Pension plan

25 days annual leave + your birthday day

• Remote-first within the UK. This is a senior client-facing role, so travel to client sites and to Colibri offices in central London will be required.
• Private Medical Insurance