Principal Architect Microsoft Azure

Salary: £65,000 - 105,000 per year

Requirements:

• Extensive experience leading enterprise and solution architecture initiatives on Microsoft Azure, supported by relevant Microsoft certifications.
• Proven expertise in cloud strategy, enterprise transformation, distributed architectures, security, DevOps, and recognised architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman, Domain-Driven Design, or NIST.
• Strong consulting and stakeholder management experience with the ability to influence senior technology and business leaders across complex transformation programmes.
• Experience leading cross-functional technical teams and delivering enterprise-scale cloud transformation within Financial Services or other regulated industries.
• A curiosity for AI-enabled ways of working and an understanding of how approved AI tools, automation, and responsible AI governance can enhance architecture delivery while maintaining appropriate review, auditability, and human judgement.
• Expert-level Azure certifications and additional enterprise architecture qualifications.
• Experience designing enterprise-scale data and AI platforms, including Generative AI, Agentic AI, and Azure-native AI services such as Azure OpenAI Service, Microsoft Fabric, and Azure AI capabilities, with an understanding of responsible AI implementation and governance.
• Experience designing secure Azure landing zones, identity-led security architectures, and enterprise networking strategies.
• Experience launching greenfield cloud-native ventures, fintech platforms, or innovative digital products.

Responsibilities:

• Lead enterprise-scale Azure architecture engagements, defining cloud strategies, target architectures, and transformation roadmaps for major financial services organisations.
• Design secure, scalable, and resilient cloud-native platforms using Azure services, modern integration patterns, and distributed architectures across hybrid technology landscapes.
• Advise senior stakeholders on cloud adoption, migration, modernisation, and investment decisions while leading multidisciplinary engineering teams through complex delivery programmes.
• Apply modern engineering practices including DevOps, agile delivery, and cloud automation, leveraging approved AI-enabled workflows where appropriate to improve productivity, architectural quality, and delivery outcomes while maintaining human oversight and governance.
• Contribute to our Technology & Engineering Practice through mentoring, thought leadership, community engagement, and supporting strategic business development opportunities.
• Work at the intersection of business strategy and engineering excellence across varied projects, from modernising the technology estates of financial institutions to designing new cloud-native platforms from the ground up.
• Bridge the gap between senior stakeholders and delivery teams, bringing architectural vision to life through multidisciplinary teams working at pace.
• Contribute to commercial activity and promote delivery excellence across our Technology & Engineering Practice.

Technologies:

• Agentic AI
• AI
• Architect
• Azure
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Fabric
• Support
• Security
• TOGAF

More:

We are Capco, a global leader in technology and business consulting, dedicated to driving digital innovation and transformation in financial services. We work with more than 100 clients worldwide across banking, payments, capital markets, insurance, wealth and asset management, and energy, and we operate from more than 30 offices globally. This is a permanent Principal Architect: Microsoft Azure role based in London on a hybrid basis within our Technology & Engineering Practice. We offer a collaborative, flat and entrepreneurial culture, continuous learning, technical training and industry certifications, and a wide range of benefits including bonus, pension, health and life insurance, mental health support, family-friendly leave, backup care, holiday flexibility, healthcare access, and additional perks. We also promote an inclusive #BeYourselfAtWork culture and are committed to accessible recruitment.

last updated 34 week of 2026