About this role
Lead Azure delivery for our clients, and shape how we build the capability around it. Remote, UK (travel required). This is first and foremost a delivery role. You will be the senior, hands-on Azure architect on our most complex client engagements, personally leading design, build and delivery work rather than directing it from a distance. You will remain substantially billable throughout the year. Alongside that delivery work, you will own the Azure capability itself: technical standards, presales support, and the growth of the wider Azure team. That ownership grows out of your own delivery work, not instead of it. This is an individual contributor role, you won't carry line management responsibility, but you will be the technical authority everyone else looks to. Why this role is worth a conversation You lead by doing, not by stepping back. A lot of "capability lead" or "practice lead" titles turn into full-time internal roles, three steps removed from client work within a year. This one is built deliberately not to. You stay on the tools, on the most technically demanding Azure engagements we run. You get to build the capability, not just staff it. Azure is a growing capability for Colibri as we scale out our Microsoft practice across Cloud, Data, AI, AppDev and Managed Services. The standards, the presales approach, the certifications roadmap, the shape of the team, you're defining those from a genuinely early stage, not inheriting someone else's framework. Technical authority without the management overhead. You won't be managing people day to day, our POD Leads own that. What you own is the technical bar: architecture decisions, design standards, and being the person clients and colleagues turn to when an Azure problem is genuinely hard. If you want deep technical scope without the admin of formal line management, this is that role. Client delivery. Personally lead design, build and implementation work on our most complex Azure engagements, providing senior technical leadership within engagement teams. Technical quality. Architecture decisions, security best practice, design and build documentation, and QA on solutions built on the engagements you're staffed on, and as an escalation point elsewhere in the Azure capability. Azure technical standards. Architecture principles, security baselines and tooling choices for the capability, grounded in your own current delivery experience rather than written from the sidelines. Presales and commercial input. Scoping, estimating and solutioning Azure-aligned opportunities, proposals and tender responses, and contributing to Statements of Work with appropriate commercial protection. The Microsoft partnership. Competencies, specialisations and co-sell relationships that help Colibri get the most from its Microsoft partnership. Capability growth. Mentoring and technical input into recruitment for the Azure team, working alongside our POD Leads who own the people management side.