Azure Cloud Architect

A great opportunity to be a part of an established British auction house. With offices in New York City and Hong Kong, they only continue to grow around the globe. 

The Role:

You'll be responsible for working with the global head of engineering and the architecture team to understand strategic direction, then planning and leading the implementation of desired functionality with their team.

Projects are hosted in an Azure environment with a strong emphasis on performance, automation, monitoring, and logging, therefore you'll need a solid understanding and extensive experience of working in a modern Cloud environment including DevOps and CI/CD processes.

Tasks Include:

• Design and development public facing REST API's and associated system integrations in an Azure hosted environment.
• Documentation of API's conforming to the Open API 3.x framework.
• Leading and steering the direction of a small dedicated team, including building team alignment, code reviews, design workshops, story/ticket elaboration, etc.
• Review existing legacy implementations and input from the architecture team, and building appropriate solutions on the new platform following best practices.

Requirements:

• Team Leadership experience.
•  C#, Microsoft SQL Server or Azure SQL, Azure CosmosDB, Azure Service Bus, Azure Function Apps, Azure APIM, Azure Front Door, Auth0, WebSockets
• Strong development experience in C# and .NET core technologies built up across a range of different enterprise-grade projects
• Creation and maintenance of build and release automation (CI/CD) pipelines using Azure DevOps.

Benefits Include:

• Discretionary bonus target
• Flexible fitness fund - £400 per year expense allowance for health and wellness-related activity
• Life assurance
• AXA private health insurance, subsidised for other family members. 
• Guaranteed income insurance in the event of sickness, personal injury and occupational injury.
• Employee assistance programme – access to personal advice and support services including counselling.
• Extra discounts on over 800 retailers, holiday packages, dinners and weekly shop.
• Hybrid working