Job Title: Senior Cloud Solution Architect (Microsoft Pre-Sales)

Location: Hybrid – Office Location - Leeds and Reading

Salary: Competitive

Job Type: Full Time / Permanent

The Role

We are a leading managed services provider specialising in Microsoft Cloud technologies. Our mission is to help organisations modernise infrastructure, secure their environments, and unlock business value through intelligent, scalable cloud solutions.

As a Microsoft Partner with all six partner designations, we deliver end-to-end services across Azure, Microsoft 365, Security, and Modern Work platforms. We’re growing fast—and we’re looking for a passionate Senior Pre-Sales Solution Architect to join our team and help shape the future of digital transformation.

This role is centred on cloud solution architecture, focusing on the design of resilient cloud solutions and the scoping of projects to accelerate cloud adoption and transformation, regardless of platform. You will utilise industry-standard frameworks such as the Cloud Adoption Framework and Well-Architected Framework to ensure that solution designs adhere to best practices for scalability, security, and operational excellence.

Your responsibilities will include supporting customers throughout the scoping, definition and deployment and enablement phases, guiding them step by step through their cloud journey, and offering expert advice on migration and modernisation strategies. By combining deep knowledge of major cloud platforms and endpoint services, you will help customers achieve a seamless, secure, and productive cloud experience tailored to their specific enterprise requirements, whether using Microsoft Azure, or other leading cloud technologies.

The Candidate

Key Responsibilities

• Lead customer discovery workshops to capture business goals, requirements, needs and outcomes and capturing the current estate, and cloud transformation objectives.

Solutioning

• Design secure, scalable architectures across Azure IaaS and PaaS, including networking, storage, identity, hybrid connectivity, and landing zones.
• Develop migration strategies from on-premises and VMware estates to Azure, covering workloads, databases, and applications.
• Guide customers on licensing, cost optimisation, and FinOps approaches to ensure commercial value.
• Introduce customers to Azure innovations such as Arc, Virtual Desktop, Data Platform, DevOps practices, Backup & DR, and emerging AI services.
• Embed best practices for governance, compliance, and security using Defender, Sentinel, and Zero Trust principles.

Cross-functional delivery

• Produce high-quality proposals, SOWs, RFP responses, and architecture documentation.
• Deliver presentations, demos and assessments to articulate technical designs and business value.
• Work closely in handover with Delivery & PMO teams to ensure solutions are implemented seamlessly.
• Track the Microsoft roadmap, licensing changes, and emerging technologies to advise customers proactively.

What We’re Looking For

• Proven experience in pre-sales or solution architecture within an Azure consultancy or MSP.
• Deep technical knowledge of Microsoft Azure services (compute, networking, identity, storage, security, hybrid).
• Experience with cloud migration strategies, 6 R’s, Cloud Adoption Framework and Well Architected Framework.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft 365 and Modern Workplace (Teams, Intune, Viva, Purview, Copilot).
• Strong commercial awareness, able to support licensing, pricing, and ROI modelling.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills for C-suite, business, and technical audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to lead discovery workshops, build proposals, and validate solutions across multiple opportunities.

Desirable Qualifications

Microsoft Azure & Cloud

• AZ-305: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• AZ-104: Azure Administrator Associate
• AZ-500: Azure Security Engineer Associate
• DP-300: Administering Relational Databases on Azure
• AZ-700: Azure Network Engineer Associate

Security & Compliance

• SC-200: Microsoft Security Operations Analyst
• SC-300: Identity and Access Administrator
• SC-400: Information Protection Administrator
• Experience with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, Purview, and Zero Trust frameworks
• Knowledge of ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials, NIST or CIS aligned security controls in cloud contexts

Other Relevant

• ITIL v4 Foundation (service management)
• FinOps Foundation / Microsoft licensing & cost optimisation accreditation
• Power Platform Fundamentals (PL-900) for extending Azure + M365 solutions
• Change Management / Adoption certification (e.g. Prosci, Microsoft Service Adoption Specialist)
• Vendor certifications in adjacent ecosystems (e.g. Bitdefender, Qualys, Mimecast) as seen in customer estates

What you’ll get in return

Financial

• Life Insurance
• Pension
• Car allowance (subject to role)
• £1000 refer a friend bonus.
• Profit share bonus scheme (non-sales, subject to T&C’s)
• Free will-writing service
• Long Service Awards (financial and time rewards)
• Electric Car Scheme (salary sacrifice)
• IT Purchase Loan Scheme
• Financial Wellbeing Tool
• Pension Surgery (consultation with a financial advisor)

Health and Wellbeing

• Private Medical Insurance
• Employee Assistance Programme - for you and your family (Counselling, legal advice, career coaching, financial support)
• Digital GP
• YuLife Wellbeing platform
• Gym membership contribution
• Gym time
• Yoga – Free onsite yoga
• Eye tests
• Flu jabs
• Fruit basket – per floor stocked weekly
• Mental Health First Aiders

Time off

• Holidays – above statutory increasing with service, plus 8 bank holidays
• Birthday benefit - Have your birthday off on us!
• Enhanced Maternity Pay
• Enhanced Paternity Pay
• Compassionate Leave
• Jury Duty

Perks

• Welcome goodie bag.
• Company apparel
• Free staff parties
• Incentives – Competitions and prizes including trips.
• Staff awards
• Culture Team events

Environment

• Free onsite parking
• New refurbed office - Table tennis, table football, games consoles, multifaith room, fully stocked bar, outdoor eating area, smoking shelter.

We’re not your average technology company; we reward innovation and outside the box thinking. A career at TIEVA means giving you the opportunity to shape your future. We will provide you with all the tools you need to succeed, this isn’t just the basics, we are talking about the latest automation technology, weekly campaigns, holidays, prizes, and team incentives.

TIEVA is an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sectors of the community.