The Role: Package: Market Leading Comprehensive Benefits and Bonus Location: Central London (hybrid working 60/40) Our client is a well established fast growing professional services organization with a market leading offering serving an international client base from a multi office footprint. They are currently looking to appoint a talented technology Architect who would take a lead on the technical architecture strategy and guide the platform engineering capabilities across the organization, ensuring technology foundations support business growth and operational excellence. * Establish their first enterprise architecture function to provide strategic technology leadership for a Microsoft-centric, Azure-native estate. This is a greenfield opportunity to define architecture strategy, governance frameworks, and drive transformation. * Define data architecture strategy for disparate legacy systems across numerous business lines. * Maximise £200k annual Microsoft E5 licensing investment. * Design CSS portal multi-tenancy architecture enabling US enterprise expansion. * Establish architecture governance appropriate for scale. * Optimise Azure spend and modernise infrastructure. The Person: * Candidates should ideally be degree qualified, with proven Enterprise Architecture experience in a financial services, professional services or technology services environment. * Demonstrable experience in establishing architecture governance in mid-sized organisations. * Architecture strategies, standards, and roadmaps experience. * Regulated environment understanding (FCA, compliance etc.). * Deep Azure expertise, with M365 ecosystem governance: Power Platform, E5 optimisation, Azure integration services such as Logic Apps, Service Bus, Event Grid, API Management). * Cloud cost management and FinOps practices. * Candidates should also possess considerable data architecture strategy development experience in complex, multi-system environments. * Strong stakeholder engagement skills are essential for success in post, with excellent communication skills presenting to C-suite and translating technical to business value. * Certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert, TOGAF, M365 Enterprise Administrator, Fabric Analytics Engineer etc would be highly desirable. If you feel you have the qualities we are seeking, please forward your CV and covering letter indicating your current package to Lee Rankin at GEM Partnership, or for a discreet conversation call our Peterlee office. GEM Partnership is acting as an employment agency on this exclusive vacancy.