Lead Consultant – Cloud Architect

About Trifork

We inspire and teach customers and colleagues about new technological possibilities, build innovative software solutions and operate and maintain these for our customers.

Since our founding in 1996, we have been motivated by pushing the boundaries of how new technologies and methods can be discovered, applied and developed into novel solutions that enable our customers to become industry leaders.

Our London team is dedicated to helping clients achieve more by leveraging modern technology and delivery approaches. Our passionate technologists thrive on tackling complex challenges, delivering pragmatic and sustainable solutions, and guiding clients toward achieving their key goals.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Lead Consultant – Cloud Architect to help shape and grow Trifork in the UK. Your experience as a cloud-native engineer and technical leader will be crucial in designing, architecting, and implementing scalable, reliable cloud native solutions.

What You’ll Do:
• Architecture & Delivery: Design, build, and develop modern, scalable application platforms. Implement secure and highly available solutions, based on industry-standard tooling and techniques such as Kubernetes clusters, real-time data streaming pipelines, 12-factor apps and scalable machine learning platforms.
• Leadership & Consulting: Provide technical leadership and guidance to clients and colleagues in the areas of engineering, cloud, and data engineering. Advise on best practices and pragmatic solutions applied to both software architectures and engineering organizations.
• Hands-On Development: Work across infrastructure-as-code (IAC), automation, container orchestration, and distributed systems to deliver robust, cloud-native solutions.
• Pre-Sales & Business Development: Assist with proposals, client discussions and technical input during pre-sales engagements.
• Mentoring & Education: Guide and support our consultants and client teams in learning and applying best practices in modern engineering.
• (Optional) Public Speaking: Represent Trifork at international conferences and meetups.

What We’re Looking For:
• Technical Leadership: Proven ability to guide clients, lead teams, and architect complex distributed and data-driven solutions.
• Cloud & Platform Engineering Expertise: Strong experience with cloud native architectures (ideally Azure, but this is not a pre-requisite). Working knowledge of DevOps, GitOps, Kubernetes, Terraform, and automation tools.
• Commercial awareness : You ground your technical decisions in what is best for our customers’ business in both the long and short terms.
• Distributed Systems & Event-Driven Architecture: Understanding of microservices, event sourcing, CQRS, and domain-driven design.
• Security & Observability: Experience with monitoring, tracing, logging, and secrets management solutions like HashiCorp Vault.
• Problem-Solving & Communication: Ability to ask the right questions, uncover core issues, and communicate effectively across technical and business teams.
• Innovation & Continuous Learning: Passion for staying up to date with new technologies and best practices.

Preferred Experience & Tools:
• Modern application architectures, 12-factor apps, Team Topologies
• Platform engineering techniques: Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-Code Observability
• Expert in at least one mainstream language, such as Java, NodeJS, Golang, C#, and proficient in at least one other language

What We Offer:
• Highly competitive salary
• Pension plan
• Private health insurance & life insurance
• 25 days’ holiday
• Cycle to work scheme
• High-spec laptop (of course!)

Need more reasons? Here’s a few more…
• Work with some of the most exciting new technologies
• Spark off co-workers who’ll challenge your thinking and help you to achieve your potential
• Deal openly and honestly with customers
• Benefit from a transparent environment including regular company meetings where we discuss anything and everything
• Have exceptional opportunities as a speaker, blogger and contributor to open source projects. We have some great connections in the wider technology community that we encourage our team to make the most of!
• Work alongside senior leaders who understand and value passionate technologists;
• Enjoy coming to work! We’re a friendly, sociable bunch who genuinely support each other and have a lot of fun

One Last Thing….

We’re in the process of unifying our brands under our parent company – Trifork Group – so you may see one or two different email domains along the way, but how we’re organised won’t be changing – feel fre