We’re BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions businesses need to navigate today’s changing world.
Our clients are Britain’s economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high‑growth businesses that fuel the economy - and the owners and management teams that lead them.
We’ll help you succeed
Our clients trust us because of the quality of our advice. That quality grows from a thorough understanding of their business, and that understanding comes from working closely with clients and building long-lasting relationships.
You’ll be someone who can work pro-actively, managing your own tasks, but you’ll also be confident collaborating with others, communicating regularly with senior managers, Directors, and BDO’s Partners to enable us to serve our clients effectively. You’ll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to our clients.
We are looking for a Cloud Solution Architect to join our Digital Cloud and Infrastructure team. You’ll be joining a dynamic advisory team in a client-facing consultancy role. You’ll design and implement secure, scalable cloud solutions primarily in Azure environments, with secondary knowledge of AWS. Cloud Solutions Architect to help our clients evaluate and develop robust cloud strategies, roadmaps, and options to support their cloud transformation programmes. You will also manage a team of architects and engineers to deliver these solutions.
You’ll collaborate with our sales team to drive client cloud modernisation and migration initiatives. You will be client-facing and accountable for the end-to-end customer cloud deployment experience and presales journey. You will own the technical customer engagement, including architectural design sessions, specific implementation projects, and proofs of concepts.
You’ll be someone with:
1. Practical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, and migrations
2. Strong understanding of cloud computing technologies and business drivers
3. Experience with application modernization and cloud migration strategies
4. Working knowledge of common database technologies (SQL Database/Server, MySQL)
5. Familiarity with AGILE development and Application Lifecycle Management
6. Practical experience with scripting languages (PowerShell, Azure CLI)
7. Working knowledge of operating systems: Linux, Windows
8. Extensive experience architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of highly distributed applications
9. Experience in migrating on premise workloads to the cloud.
10. Success in consultative/complex technical sales and deployment projects, managing stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solution/projects
11. Oversight experience on major transformation projects and successful transitions to implementation support teams
12. Qualifications in AZ-104 (Azure Administrator Associate certification)/AZ-305 Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions
13. A working knowledge of Azure; core services, identity management, security tool, infrastructure, monitoring, data services, Microsoft 365 integration, app services for Azure.
You’ll be able to be yourself; we’ll recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to the business. We’re committed to agile working, and we offer every colleague the opportunity to work in ways that suit you, your teams, and the task at hand.
At BDO, we’ll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.
We’re in it together
Mutual support and respect is one of BDO’s core values and we’re proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture. From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we’ll support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs.
Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another. At BDO, you’ll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.
We know that collaboration is the key to creating value for the companies we work with and satisfying experiences for our colleagues, so we’ve invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices. BDO’s people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we’ll encourage you to build your network, work alongside others, and share your skills and experiences. With a range of multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources, you’ll never stop learning at BDO.
We’re looking forward to the future
At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy.
Our success is powered by our people, which is why we’re always finding new ways to invest in you. Across the UK thousands of unique minds continue to come together to help companies we work with to achieve their ambitions.
About the company
BDO is an accountancy and business advisory firm. Our global network operates in 164 countries with 1,500 offices worldwide.
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