6 Microsoft Azure jobs in the United Kingdom
Solution Architect - Permanent (Microsoft/Azure)
Posted 1 day ago
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Methods are looking for an experienced Solution Architect to join us on a Full-time basis. We are looking for someone with at least 5 years in a customer facing role, delivering and supporting technology solutions based on Microsoft technologies.
Methods is a £100M+ IT Services Consultancy who has partnered with a range of central government departments and agencies to transform the way the public sector operates in the UK. Established over 30 years ago and UK-based, we apply our skills in transformation, delivery, and collaboration from across the Methods Group, to create end-to-end business and technical solutions that are people-centred, safe, and designed for the future.
Our human touch sets us apart from other consultancies, system integrators and software houses - with people, technology, and data at the heart of who we are, we believe in creating value and sustainability through everything we do for our clients, staff, communities, and the planet.
We support our clients in the success of their projects while working collaboratively to share skill sets and solve problems. At Methods we have fun while working hard; we are not afraid of making mistakes and learning from them.
Predominantly focused on the public-sector, Methods is now building a significant private sector client portfolio.
Methods was acquired by the Alten Group in early 2022.
Position: Solutions Architect
The Solution Architect role is created to support the growth of the company and a desire to secure and build upon new and existing business opportunities. The role will help ensure our technical solutions are robust, commercially viable and fully address the customer requirements.
The role will support the whole life cycle from initial engagement with pre-sales and customers to proposal, solution design and delivery. The opportunities for growth and development in this role are substantial as Methods itself continues to grow and develop.
The role will focus on the development of Microsoft solutions and cloud platforms and will have responsibility for the technical solutions and will retain that responsibility from initial customer engagement through to implementation and handover to Methods delivery teams.
The role will require someone with extensive technical experience, good interpersonal skills and the ability to explain potentially complex technical solutions to a business audience.
The role will require someone with good all-round ability to juggle multiple projects and meet deadlines whilst at the same time comprehending complex and interdependent business requirements and to ensure these are delivered in a cost effective and secure manner.
This is an ideal opportunity for a technical professional looking for a new and challenging architect position, one which will make best use of their existing skills and experience and also further their development.
Responsibilities
- Involvement in initial customer engagements to articulate Methods' capabilities and help shape customer technical strategy and requirements.
- Own the technical solution required to meet a customer's specification, liaising proactively with colleagues and external partners, as necessary, to deliver technically elegant, feasible and commercially viable solutions.
- Construction of a cost model to support the implementation and ongoing delivery of the solution.
- Own and manage any risks associated with solution development and implementation.
- Undertake, where required, authorship and/or review of technical elements of proposal documentation
- Take the technical lead in the presentation of technical and commercial solutions to a customer, in collaboration with the sales team.
- Provide technical support in contract negotiations and development.
- Ensure effective handover of technical solution to delivery teams, in conjunction with the Programme Managers.
- Contribute to the development of Methods' technical solutions and capabilities, keeping abreast of industry developments and proposing innovation.
- Quality Assurance of Technical Solutions proposed and/or implemented by Technical Architects or Engineers, where required.
- Conceptualising and designing complex solutions, covering multiple sites, and including hosted Data Centre infrastructures.
- Perform presales activity in support of the Business Development, Solution Architecture and Sales teams.
- The role requires detailed design skills specific to the individual's technology specialisation, complemented by an architecture-level appreciation of all relevant complementary technologies.
- Initiate an ongoing, proactive approach, working alongside colleagues in developing and delivering service offerings based on industry best practice and new-to-market technologies.
- Understand and develop the opportunities within their customer accounts.
- Maintain a broad understanding across Microsoft technologies and be willing to complete training (including the passing of relevant exams and accreditations) in Microsoft technologies that are identified as pertinent to your role and to maintain and gain Methods certifications and accreditations.
- Subject Matter Expert (SME) in agreed technologies in line with Methods solutions and designs.
- Mentor and guide team to build and develop their skills to meet the requirements of Methods and customers.
- Work with Management team to build repeatable, robust, policies, processes and approaches to enable consistent and best practices solution delivery.
- Provide support to Managed Services and Delivery Engineers as SME
- All other duties as required.
Essential skills
- Excellent presentation and communication (verbal and written) skills
- Self-starter with the ability to appropriately prioritise and plan complex work in a rapidly changing environment.
- Results oriented with ability to produce products that deliver organisational benefit.
- Effective design and proposal documentation skills
- Strong conceptual and analytical skills - demonstrating outside-the-box problem solving skills.
- SC clearance or willingness to gain
- Microsoft Expert Level Exams and Certifications
- Subject Matter Expert Exams and Certifications
Experience required
- At least 5 years in a customer facing role, delivering and supporting technology solutions based on Microsoft technologies
- In Depth knowledge & experience of various Microsoft technologies with SME knowledge in agreed areas
- Azure DevOps & automation
- Azure Platform
- Azure Integration Services
- Azure Fabric
- Azure App Service
- Azure Kubernetes Service
- Azure Entra ID
- Azure AI Foundry
- .NET development
- Database development & administration
- In Depth knowledge & experience of creating a technical design to deploy and implement without guidance
- In Depth understanding of Microsoft Cloud Platform including services, security, capabilities, technology, applications, IT Issues, best practice standards, methodologies and processes
- Proven ability to work collaboratively in projects and demonstrate the ability to undertake technical leadership
- Team player with experience leading and collaborating cross-team to ensure successful delivery of solutions.
- Lead on technical workshops & solutions across multiple technologies
- Commercial awareness to create proposals and draft responses to tenders
- Significant Pre-sales experience in discussing solution and technologies with customers
- Experience of presenting technical solutions to customers and stakeholders
This role will require you to have or be willing to go through Security Clearance. As part of the onboarding process candidates will be asked to complete a Baseline Personnel Security Standard; details of the evidence required to apply may be found on the government website. If you are unable to meet this and any associated criteria, then your employment may be delayed, or rejected . Details of this will be discussed with you at interview.
Benefits
Methods is passionate about its people; we want our colleagues to develop the things they are good at and enjoy.
By joining us you can expect
- Autonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience
- Be part of exciting project work that is making a difference in society
- Strong, inspiring and thought-provoking leadership
- A supportive and collaborative environment
Development - access to LinkedIn Learning, a management development programme, and training
Wellness - 24/7 confidential employee assistance programme
Flexible Working - including home working and part time
Social - office parties, breakfast Tuesdays, monthly pizza Thursdays, Thirsty Thursdays, and commitment to charitable causes
Time Off - 25 days of annual leave a year, plus bank holidays, with the option to buy 5 extra days each year
Volunteering - 2 paid days per year to volunteer in our local communities or within a charity organisation
Pension - Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution
Discretionary Company Bonus - based on company and individual performance
Life Assurance - of 4 times base salary
Private Medical Insurance - which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)
Worldwide Travel Insurance - which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)
Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay
Travel - season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme
For a full list of benefits please visit our website
IT Product Owner - Microsoft (Azure, Copilot, 365) & Atlassian
Posted 10 days ago
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Location: Sunderland Job Type: Permanent, Full-time Salary: circa 43,323 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Are you an experienced IT Product Owner passionate about leveraging the latest Microsoft and Atlassian technologies? Do you want to work for a values-led organisation making a real difference in the community?
Randstad is proud to partner with a leading charitable organisation in Sunderland to find an innovative IT Product Owner to join their dynamic team.
About Our Client
Our client is more than just a housing provider; they are a cornerstone of the Sunderland community with a clear social purpose. They provide quality, affordable homes for over 60,000 people and are actively tackling the UK housing crisis by building hundreds of new, modern homes. By joining their team, you'll be part of an organisation that invests millions back into the community and believes everyone deserves a safe place to call home.
About the Role
This is an exciting, newly created position where you will be the driving force behind the strategy, adoption, and innovation of the company's core Microsoft (Azure, Copilot, M365) and Atlassian platforms. Reporting to the Head of ITSM & Infrastructure, you will act as the crucial link between technology and business objectives, ensuring these powerful tools deliver maximum value and enhance productivity across the organisation.
Key Responsibilities
Shape the Vision: Define and communicate a clear product roadmap for Microsoft 365, Copilot, and Atlassian, ensuring alignment with business goals.
Drive Adoption: Act as a product champion, promoting new features and best practices to boost user engagement and efficiency.
Manage the Backlog: Prioritise user stories, features, and tasks, working with cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery.
Collaborate for Success: Partner with vendors and internal teams (Security, Infrastructure, EUC) to ensure seamless product development, deployment, and support.
Be the User's Voice: Gather user feedback and conduct research to continuously improve the user experience and inform product enhancements.
Stakeholder Engagement: Build strong relationships with key stakeholders to gather requirements, provide progress updates, and manage expectations.
Ensure Governance: Monitor product performance, manage risks, and ensure all solutions adhere to security and compliance standards.
What You'll Need
Proven experience as an IT Product Owner or in a similar role.
Strong, hands-on knowledge of the Microsoft 365 suite, including emerging technologies like Copilot.
A background in IT service management (ITSM), project delivery, and effective stakeholder engagement.
Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to manage complex technical issues and vendor relationships.
A confident communication style, with the ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences.
A degree (or equivalent) in a related field and certifications (e.g., ITIL, CISSP, Microsoft) are highly desirable.
Familiarity with the Power Platform (Power BI, Fabric) and Azure is a plus.
What's in it for You?
Excellent Salary: A competitive salary of circa 43,323.
Work-Life Balance: A fantastic hybrid working model, flexible hours, and an early finish on Fridays .
Generous Leave: 31 days annual leave plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase 5 extra days.
Superb Pension: Competitive Aviva pension scheme where the company contributes up to 10%.
Health & Wellbeing: Free Health Cash Plan (covering dental, optical, physio, and more) and life assurance (3x your annual salary).
Great Perks: Access to a salary sacrifice electric vehicle scheme and a business mileage allowance.
Career Growth: A commitment to your professional development with dedicated training and development opportunities.
How to Apply
This is a fantastic opportunity to make a significant impact within a socially conscious organisation. If you have the skills and passion to drive innovation with Microsoft and Atlassian products, we want to hear from you.
Randstad Technologies Ltd is a leading specialist recruitment business for the IT & Engineering industries. Please note that due to a high level of applications, we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.
IT Product Owner - Microsoft (Azure, Copilot, 365) & Atlassian
Posted 13 days ago
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Location: Sunderland Job Type: Permanent, Full-time Salary: circa 43,323 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Are you an experienced IT Product Owner passionate about leveraging the latest Microsoft and Atlassian technologies? Do you want to work for a values-led organisation making a real difference in the community?
Randstad is proud to partner with a leading charitable organisation in Sunderland to find an innovative IT Product Owner to join their dynamic team.
About Our Client
Our client is more than just a housing provider; they are a cornerstone of the Sunderland community with a clear social purpose. They provide quality, affordable homes for over 60,000 people and are actively tackling the UK housing crisis by building hundreds of new, modern homes. By joining their team, you'll be part of an organisation that invests millions back into the community and believes everyone deserves a safe place to call home.
About the Role
This is an exciting, newly created position where you will be the driving force behind the strategy, adoption, and innovation of the company's core Microsoft (Azure, Copilot, M365) and Atlassian platforms. Reporting to the Head of ITSM & Infrastructure, you will act as the crucial link between technology and business objectives, ensuring these powerful tools deliver maximum value and enhance productivity across the organisation.
Key Responsibilities
Shape the Vision: Define and communicate a clear product roadmap for Microsoft 365, Copilot, and Atlassian, ensuring alignment with business goals.
Drive Adoption: Act as a product champion, promoting new features and best practices to boost user engagement and efficiency.
Manage the Backlog: Prioritise user stories, features, and tasks, working with cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery.
Collaborate for Success: Partner with vendors and internal teams (Security, Infrastructure, EUC) to ensure seamless product development, deployment, and support.
Be the User's Voice: Gather user feedback and conduct research to continuously improve the user experience and inform product enhancements.
Stakeholder Engagement: Build strong relationships with key stakeholders to gather requirements, provide progress updates, and manage expectations.
Ensure Governance: Monitor product performance, manage risks, and ensure all solutions adhere to security and compliance standards.
What You'll Need
Proven experience as an IT Product Owner or in a similar role.
Strong, hands-on knowledge of the Microsoft 365 suite, including emerging technologies like Copilot.
A background in IT service management (ITSM), project delivery, and effective stakeholder engagement.
Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to manage complex technical issues and vendor relationships.
A confident communication style, with the ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences.
A degree (or equivalent) in a related field and certifications (e.g., ITIL, CISSP, Microsoft) are highly desirable.
Familiarity with the Power Platform (Power BI, Fabric) and Azure is a plus.
What's in it for You?
Excellent Salary: A competitive salary of circa 43,323.
Work-Life Balance: A fantastic hybrid working model, flexible hours, and an early finish on Fridays .
Generous Leave: 31 days annual leave plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase 5 extra days.
Superb Pension: Competitive Aviva pension scheme where the company contributes up to 10%.
Health & Wellbeing: Free Health Cash Plan (covering dental, optical, physio, and more) and life assurance (3x your annual salary).
Great Perks: Access to a salary sacrifice electric vehicle scheme and a business mileage allowance.
Career Growth: A commitment to your professional development with dedicated training and development opportunities.
How to Apply
This is a fantastic opportunity to make a significant impact within a socially conscious organisation. If you have the skills and passion to drive innovation with Microsoft and Atlassian products, we want to hear from you.
Randstad Technologies Ltd is a leading specialist recruitment business for the IT & Engineering industries. Please note that due to a high level of applications, we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.
Mid-Stack Azure / Microsoft Developer
Posted 4 days ago
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- Hull HQ
- £40,000 - £50,000 pa (DOE)
- Free on-site Gym, Cycle to Work Scheme, Regular Social Events
- Applicants must be a UK resident with unrestricted right to work in the UK; please note that we cannot offer visa sponsorship for overseas candidates.
Reporting to the Microsoft Lead, the successful candidate will play a key role in a variety of ongoing transformational projects across the multi-site group. This role offers a huge amount of exposure to modern web and Microsoft technologies, with long-term projects including Enterprise Service Bus integration , platform migration, data visualisation and micro-service roll out using cloud-based technologies.
ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Ongoing project: consolidating internal and external websites from across the group into a single framework, with the goal of creating a more manageable estate.
- Work closely with the Microsoft Lead to design, develop, and implement strategies for integrating Microsoft 365 & Dynamics components with existing enterprise applications.
- Deliver the full lifecycle of integration projects, from requirements gathering to deployment, ensuring seamless data flow and optimised functionality.
- Build and maintain custom solutions (using .Net Core 2 , React , TypeScript , C# , etc) for Microsoft / Azure environments/services.
- Identify opportunities to automate manual processes, reduce duplication, and improve data accuracy and accessibility.
- Create and maintain documentation of integration processes, customisations, and best practices.
- Write clean , well-structured , and testable code that aligns with development standards.
- Ensure all solutions comply with data privacy , security , and governance
- Test , and where necessary resolve integration and application issues.
- Stay up to date with emerging technologies and contribute innovative ideas for the business' digital strategy.
- Previous Azure / Microsoft development experience,
- Large scale integrations/migrations of core business systems.
- Building and maintaining websites.
- Node.js, .Net and JavaScript .
- Excellent communication skills, and comfortable working within a collaborative environment.
- Strong problem-solving and multitasking skills.
- Data Integration techniques: REST and SOAP APIs, webhooks, SharePoint lists, and/or Dataverse.
- Integration Technologies: Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps, and/or Microsoft Graph API.
- Frameworks : Koa, Tailwind CSS, and/or Nunjucks.
- Databases/Deployment Tools: Git, Linux, Docker, MongoDB, and/or PostgreSQL
- Back-end Development: TypeScript, .Net Core 2, and/or C#.
- Front-end Development: HTMX, CSS, React, Alpine.js, and/or Tailwind.
- Data warehousing , Enterprise Service Bus .
- Microsoft certifications such as Power Platform Developer Associate, Microsoft 365 Developer Associate, or equivalent.
- ITIL environment and multi-site roll out experience.
Is a 360 digital marketing agency based at the epicentre of an award winning and highly respected 150-year-old group organisation. The agency services all 22 limited companies consolidated into 12 brands sat under the group umbrella, within a wide range of industries and sectors including: Logistics, Energy, Property , and more. As a result of the wider transformation and growth strategy, this agency was born with the main aim to turn this well-established group into a digital-first powerhouse.
If you feel you are suitable, please apply today by submitting your CV. Alternatively, to discuss the opportunity further, please contact Alice McGlaughlin.
Thank you for taking an interest in the role advertised. We'd like to confirm that each CV received is read thoroughly by a trained consultant; if your application is shortlisted then you will be contacted via telephone in the first instance. If we have not contacted you within 5 working days of your application, please understand that the CV received, and the information provided does not meet the requirements of the role. However, we endeavour to consider all applicants for future opportunities; should you wish to speak to the named consultant about your application, please contact us directly.
Mid-Stack Azure / Microsoft Developer
Posted 6 days ago
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Job Description
- Hull HQ
- £40,000 - £50,000 pa (DOE)
- Free on-site Gym, Cycle to Work Scheme, Regular Social Events
- Applicants must be a UK resident with unrestricted right to work in the UK; please note that we cannot offer visa sponsorship for overseas candidates.
Reporting to the Microsoft Lead, the successful candidate will play a key role in a variety of ongoing transformational projects across the multi-site group. This role offers a huge amount of exposure to modern web and Microsoft technologies, with long-term projects including Enterprise Service Bus integration , platform migration, data visualisation and micro-service roll out using cloud-based technologies.
ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Ongoing project: consolidating internal and external websites from across the group into a single framework, with the goal of creating a more manageable estate.
- Work closely with the Microsoft Lead to design, develop, and implement strategies for integrating Microsoft 365 & Dynamics components with existing enterprise applications.
- Deliver the full lifecycle of integration projects, from requirements gathering to deployment, ensuring seamless data flow and optimised functionality.
- Build and maintain custom solutions (using .Net Core 2 , React , TypeScript , C# , etc) for Microsoft / Azure environments/services.
- Identify opportunities to automate manual processes, reduce duplication, and improve data accuracy and accessibility.
- Create and maintain documentation of integration processes, customisations, and best practices.
- Write clean , well-structured , and testable code that aligns with development standards.
- Ensure all solutions comply with data privacy , security , and governance
- Test , and where necessary resolve integration and application issues.
- Stay up to date with emerging technologies and contribute innovative ideas for the business' digital strategy.
- Previous Azure / Microsoft development experience,
- Large scale integrations/migrations of core business systems.
- Building and maintaining websites.
- Node.js, .Net and JavaScript .
- Excellent communication skills, and comfortable working within a collaborative environment.
- Strong problem-solving and multitasking skills.
- Data Integration techniques: REST and SOAP APIs, webhooks, SharePoint lists, and/or Dataverse.
- Integration Technologies: Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps, and/or Microsoft Graph API.
- Frameworks : Koa, Tailwind CSS, and/or Nunjucks.
- Databases/Deployment Tools: Git, Linux, Docker, MongoDB, and/or PostgreSQL
- Back-end Development: TypeScript, .Net Core 2, and/or C#.
- Front-end Development: HTMX, CSS, React, Alpine.js, and/or Tailwind.
- Data warehousing , Enterprise Service Bus .
- Microsoft certifications such as Power Platform Developer Associate, Microsoft 365 Developer Associate, or equivalent.
- ITIL environment and multi-site roll out experience.
Is a 360 digital marketing agency based at the epicentre of an award winning and highly respected 150-year-old group organisation. The agency services all 22 limited companies consolidated into 12 brands sat under the group umbrella, within a wide range of industries and sectors including: Logistics, Energy, Property , and more. As a result of the wider transformation and growth strategy, this agency was born with the main aim to turn this well-established group into a digital-first powerhouse.
If you feel you are suitable, please apply today by submitting your CV. Alternatively, to discuss the opportunity further, please contact Alice McGlaughlin.
Thank you for taking an interest in the role advertised. We'd like to confirm that each CV received is read thoroughly by a trained consultant; if your application is shortlisted then you will be contacted via telephone in the first instance. If we have not contacted you within 5 working days of your application, please understand that the CV received, and the information provided does not meet the requirements of the role. However, we endeavour to consider all applicants for future opportunities; should you wish to speak to the named consultant about your application, please contact us directly.
Mid-Stack Azure / Microsoft Developer
Posted 3 days ago
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Job Description
- Hull HQ
- £40,000 - £50,000 pa (DOE)
- Free on-site Gym, Cycle to Work Scheme, Regular Social Events
- Applicants must be a UK resident with unrestricted right to work in the UK; please note that we cannot offer visa sponsorship for overseas candidates.
Reporting to the Microsoft Lead, the successful candidate will play a key role in a variety of ongoin.
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