Senior Application Architect
Telefonica Tech10 hours ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead customer discovery workshops covering application landscapes, business challenges and transformation goals.
- Shape application modernisation strategies, cloud adoption roadmaps, portfolio assessments and migration plans.
- Design modern application solutions using Microsoft Azure and cloud-native technologies.
- Support technical sales through solution design, proposals, presentations and customer demonstrations.
- Develop Statements of Work covering scope, assumptions, delivery approach and effort estimation.
- Define migration and transformation approaches using recognised frameworks including the 7Rs.
- Provide architectural guidance across application modernisation and software development initiatives.
- Collaborate with architects, engineers, delivery teams, customers and stakeholders to support successful implementations.
- Contribute to service development, sales enablement content, case studies and solution accelerators.
Requirements
- Experience in solution architecture, software development or technical consulting.
- Strong understanding of Microsoft Azure and modern cloud application architectures.
- Knowledge of application modernisation strategies and migration approaches.
- Experience with containers, APIs, serverless architectures, PaaS services and DevOps practices.
- Ability to translate technical concepts into clear, business-focused recommendations.
- Experience engaging customers, stakeholders and technical teams.
- Strong communication, presentation and solution design skills.
- Ability to manage multiple customer engagements simultaneously.
- Experience delivering cloud transformation or digital modernisation programmes is desirable.
- Knowledge of application assessment and portfolio analysis methodologies is desirable.
- Experience building technical proposals and participating in pre-sales activities is desirable.
- Familiarity with enterprise application environments, legacy modernisation challenges, hyperscaler platforms and emerging cloud-native technologies is desirable.
About Telefonica Tech
Telefónica Tech provides cybersecurity, cloud, data/AI, IoT, and workplace/networking services for enterprises and the public sector, delivered through consulting, integration, and managed services, plus resale of partner platforms. It is the digital-services unit of Telefónica Group, headquartered in Madrid, with strategic hubs in Spain, the UK, Germany, and Brazil, and partnerships with Microsoft, AWS, HPE, Palo Alto, Fortinet, and CrowdStrike.