Nasstar

Cloud-based IT solutions & modernization partner

Cloud Capability Lead - Azure

Cloud EngineeringUpdated on Nov 13

Full-timeRemote in UKNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

Have spent the majority of a 10–15+ year career in cloud or infrastructure consulting designing and delivering Microsoft Azure solutions at architect level, and be interested in continuing hands-on work.
Have operated as a senior technical authority on Azure engagements, influencing technical and commercial decisions with clients, partners, and internal stakeholders.
Have a current or recent Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification, or equivalent; specializations such as security, networking, or landing zones are advantageous.
Have direct experience with presales, solutioning, estimating, and contributing to commercial proposals or Statements of Work.
Have a track record of growing a technical capability's standards, skills, and reputation within a consultancy, managed service provider, or systems integrator, without necessarily holding formal line-management responsibility.
Have existing relationships with, or credible experience working within, the Microsoft partner ecosystem.
Have stakeholder, communication, and technical-writing skills to operate at senior client and partner level.

Responsibilities

Personally lead design, build, and implementation work on complex Azure client engagements while remaining substantially billable.
Make architecture decisions; establish security best practices; produce design and build documentation; perform quality assurance on engagement solutions; and act as an escalation point across the Azure capability.
Set Azure capability architecture principles, security baselines, and tooling choices based on current delivery experience.
Provide presales and commercial input by scoping, estimating, and solutioning Azure-aligned opportunities; contribute to proposals, tender responses, and Statements of Work with appropriate commercial protection.
Develop Microsoft partnership competencies, specializations, and co-sell relationships.
Grow the Azure capability and team through technical standards, mentoring, recruitment input, and technical guidance, working with POD Leads who own people management.

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.

You'll have spent the majority of a 10–15+ year career in cloud/infrastructure consulting designing and delivering Microsoft Azure solutions at architect level, and you'll still want to be hands-on rather than purely advisory.

We're particularly interested in evidence that you have:

Operated as a senior technical authority on Azure engagements, able to influence technical and commercial decisions with clients, partners and internal stakeholders.
A current or recent Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification (or equivalent), ideally with relevant specialisations such as security, networking or landing zones.
Direct experience of presales, solutioning, estimating and contributing to commercial proposals or SOWs.
A track record of growing a technical capability's standards, skills and reputation within a consultancy, MSP or systems integrator without necessarily holding formal line management responsibility.
Existing relationships with, or credible experience working within, the Microsoft partner ecosystem.
Excellent stakeholder, communication and technical-writing skills, with the gravitas to operate at senior client and partner level.

About the Company

Nasstar

Cloud-based IT solutions & modernization partner

Nasstar provides cloud-based IT solutions that help businesses transform through cloud technologies, offering services like cloud optimization, application modernization, connectivity, and collaboration tools through consulting, managed services, and long-term support. It works by partnering with AWS and Microsoft and deploying a team of integrators, technical specialists, and strategic advisors to assess, design, implement, and continuously support cloud environments and applications. Its differentiators include high-level partnerships (AWS Premier, Microsoft Partner), a comprehensive end-to-end service package, and a focus on long-term transformation and ongoing support. The goal is to help businesses simplify IT, improve efficiency and productivity, and enable continuous transformation with scalable cloud solutions.

Company size: 501-1,000
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: Wakefield, United Kingdom
Founded: 1998

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