
Cognitive Group | Part of the Focus Cloud Group
Azure Lead Integration Developer
Job Description
Salary: £65,000 - 105,000 per year
Requirements:- 5+ years of hands-on Azure integration experience
- UK Government Security Clearance
- Experience leading, mentoring, or developing other engineers
- Strong knowledge of microservices, event-driven, and serverless architectures
- Experience contributing to solution design and architecture
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
- Confidence working in client-facing and consulting environments
- Strong written and spoken English
- Azure certifications, or a commitment to working towards them
- Experience with CI/CD and continuous integration
- Experience using GitHub Copilot and modern developer tooling
- Strong hands-on experience with Azure Logic Apps
- Strong hands-on experience with Azure Functions and Durable Functions
- Strong hands-on experience with Azure Service Bus
- Strong hands-on experience with API Management
- Strong hands-on experience with Event Grid and/or Event Hub
- Strong hands-on experience with .NET / C#
- Strong hands-on experience with REST APIs
- Strong hands-on experience with microservices architecture
- Strong hands-on experience with secure application design
- Strong hands-on experience with Git
- Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines
- Lead the design and development of Azure integration solutions
- Translate business requirements into robust integration architectures
- Provide technical direction across design, development, and best practice
- Lead and mentor a small to mid-sized team of developers
- Act as a technical lead and escalation point for complex issues
- Run technical workshops and advise clients on integration strategy
- Help customers identify the right Azure integration approaches
- Stay hands-on, building and supporting key integration components
- Work closely with clients, technical teams, and stakeholders to deliver successful outcomes
- API
- Azure
- C#
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Copilot
- Git
- GitHub
- REST
- Security
- Serverless
- microservices
- ASP.NET
- DevOps
More:
We are hiring a Lead Integration Developer for our Azure Cloud Solutions capability in the UK on a hybrid basis. This is a hands-on technical leadership opportunity focused on designing and delivering modern, cloud-native integration solutions. We offer the chance to work on modern Azure integration solutions, influence technical direction, work closely with customers, and lead a talented team while remaining hands-on with the technology.
last updated 37 week of 2026
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Cognitive Group | Part of the Focus Cloud Group
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