Senior Application Architect

Not specified Full-time Senior Operations

Job Description

Why This Role?

We’re looking for a Senior Application Modernisation Architect to help organisations unlock greater value from their application estate. Working across both pre-sales and delivery, you’ll engage directly with customers, shape modernisation strategies, influence technical decisions and help deliver transformational cloud-native solutions. This is an opportunity to combine architecture, consulting and hands‑on technical expertise while helping build and grow a rapidly expanding practice.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead customer discovery workshops to understand application landscapes, business challenges and transformation goals
• Shape application modernisation strategies and cloud adoption roadmaps aligned to business outcomes
• Design modern application solutions leveraging Microsoft Azure and cloud-native technologies
• Support technical sales activities through solution design, proposals, presentations and customer demonstrations
• Develop Statements of Work including scope, assumptions, delivery approach and effort estimation
• Conduct application portfolio assessments, dependency analysis and modernisation planning
• Define migration and transformation approaches using recognised frameworks including 7Rs
• Provide architectural guidance across modernisation and software development initiatives
• Collaborate with architects, engineers and delivery teams to ensure successful implementation
• Contribute to service development, sales enablement content, case studies and solution accelerators

Why This Opportunity Stands Out

Telefónica Tech (part of the Telefónica Group) is a leading NextGen Tech solutions provider with a highly diversified team of over 6,000 exceptionally skilled employees and +60 nationalities.

We serve more than 5.5m customers every day in over 175 countries, with a global ecosystem of market‑leading partners. Global strategic hubs: Spain, Brazil, the UK, Germany.

The Telefónica Tech UK&I hub has an end- to-end portfolio of market leading services and develops integrated technology solutions to accelerate digital transformation through: Cloud, Data & AI, Enterprise Applications, Digital Workplace and Cyber Security & Networking.

• HPE: Platinum Partner – FY23 UK&I Solution Provider of the Year
• Palo Alto & Crowdstrike : part of our NextDefense Cyber Security Portfolio
• Fortinet : Elite VIP Program – one of only 2 in the UK