What Impact will you make?
Are you looking for an opportunity in Thessaloniki that offers you a hybrid working model?

Are you ready to work on large scale projects for industry-leading clients around the world and elevate your career to an international level?

If so, check below for more info about this career opportunity!

You bring passion, we bring opportunities!


#Your Opportunity
Deloitte is a worldwide leader in Professional Services with a presence in more than 150 countries and territories. Since 2018, Deloitte has been operating its Alexander Competence Center in Thessaloniki with satellites in the cities of Patras, Heraklion, and Ioannina - which are model hubs of expertise, training, and innovation, specializing in cutting-edge exponential technologies, in which graduates and young professionals undergo immersive experiences, continuous learning, gaining practical insights and hands-on training that empower them to navigate the complexities of the digital landscape.

Deloitte is an ideal working environment for both young and senior professionals who want to take the next step in their careers, offering them a supportive and international working environment that leverages their expertise and potential. Its corporate culture is based on trust and collaboration and ensures diversity and inclusion so that everyone feels part of a great team.


#About Deloitte NSE

At Deloitte, you’ll be joining an innovative firm, working together to make positive change happen. In the UK, we are part of Deloitte North and South Europe (NSE), the second largest member firm in the Deloitte network.

There are more than 2,700 partners and over 65,000 people that make up our dynamic teams across these regions, who are together responsible for creating €7bn of revenue. We have an unmatched breadth and depth of capabilities in audit and assurance, consulting, financial advisory, risk advisory, and tax and legal across the region.


Our Purpose & Strategy
Our NSE Ambition focuses on five characteristics - purpose led; universal leaders, inclusive culture; advisory growth, delivery strength; global scale, local touch; and, digital first – which will differentiate our business in the future, enable us to stand further apart from the competition, attract and retain the best talent and be a recognized leader in societal impact – to become THE winning firm. At Deloitte, we tackle our clients’ and society’s challenges to create progress and possibility for those our work affects. We make an impact that matters. That’s our purpose.


#About Your Role

This Azure Principal Architect role sits in the UK CBS organization and will be part of the NSE Cloud leadership team working closely with ITS leaders across North and South Europe driving the delivery, adoption and strategy for cloud across the region.

Reporting to the Senior NSE Cloud Architecture Manager, the Azure Architect Manager will be responsible for driving forward the Azure Cloud platform and providing solutions architecture advice to stakeholders. This role is more than acting as a technical point of contact, the right candidate will be able to translate industry and internal standards into strategy for the engineering team, will guide more junior architects, and evangelise for the platform to meet the use cases for cloud across North and South Europe.

Technical

• Act as a design authority and SME for the Azure cloud
• Be the technical point of contact and lead, assisting and advising where necessary other team members and those from other business areas as required.
• With the relevant platform engineering team, continually enrich the Deloitte Cloud Azure Platform, enabling best practices in Security, Automation and Reliability.

Relationship Management

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the Azure architects and engineering teams, fostering a culture of technical excellence and innovation.
• Liaise with various other teams and colleagues on regional and global programmes and align on standards and policies.
• Develop and maintain relationships with strategic partners and suppliers, by having regular conversations, attending conferences, and by organizing and/or attending supplier workshops.

Strategic

• In cooperation with other cloud teams, align services and maintain roadmap for the platform.
• Stay abreast with emerging technologies and trends across all Enterprise Architecture domains with a focus on cloud specifically.
• Work directly with various businesses across multiple countries (including business relationship managers) to gain a deep understanding on business requirements and future direction.
• Design services to meet future business needs.
• Drive and support collaborative solution option analysis and recommend high level solutions and approach.

#Our Requirements

• Comprehensive knowledge and demonstrable experience of hosting patterns in on-premises data centers and on public clouds, specifically Azure, including virtual machines, virtual storage, containers, serverless computing, resilience and recovery patterns, RPO & RTO, and including inter-system communications constructs including database access, third-party gateways, synchronous and asynchronous messaging, API’s, Web Services, transit networks, directory services (Azure AD) integration, and more.
• Recent Cloud Architecture certification in Azure.
• Knowledge and demonstrable experience of cloud connectivity options, load balancers, network zoning and segregation, proxies, DNS, DHCP, IPAM, Qo S and more.
• Good working knowledge of network security principles and constructs including firewalls, DLP, Multi-Factor Authentication, DLP, Multi-Factor Authentication and PAM.
• Demonstrable experience in bringing the above knowledge and experience to bear in creating high and low level designs and then communicating the reasons behind key and potentially contentious design constructs.
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation communications skills; you will often find in situations where you have to describe problem statements, solution options, your analysis and recommendations to a mix of technical, non-technical and C-level stakeholders, and use strong influencing skills to gain consensus and an agreed way forward.
• Able to document and diagram solutions and technical ideas.
• Good supplier relationship management and communications skills and ability to establish and maintain effective key stakeholder relationships.

#What We Offer
At Deloitte, we know that great people make a great organization. We value our people and offer employees a broad range of benefits:
Modern hybrid workplace, characterized by flexibility and Smart Working

• Empowered well-being: We provide multiple program offerings to support your well-being needs (flexible working arrangements, extra days of leave, parental allowances)

Engagement within international large-scale teams and projects, with opportunities to travel for training or client purposes.
Constant opportunities for learning with unlimited access to internal and external learning platforms and sponsored certificates aligned with business needs and technology trends
Challenging and innovating environment where personal development and growth are encouraged, always with transparency and trust
? Diverse culture and active communities that enable you to bring yourself to work
Team Building and Corporate Social Responsibility Activities
A buddy to support you with your onboarding
Extra days of annual leave

• Private medical health insurance plan

Ticket restaurant card
? Exclusive Discounts to several retail providers, restaurants and others
Mobile phone
Fresh fruits and unlimited coffee every day at our offices


About Deloitte
#Our Services
Deloitte offers integrated services that include Audit, Consulting, Financial Advisory, Risk Advisory, Tax and Legal. Our approach combines insight and innovation from multiple disciplines with global business and industry expertise to help our clients excel anywhere in the world. We deliver outstanding impact on the reputation and success of our clients, in Italy and globally. In pursuing this we contribute to a sustainable and prosperous society, and are firm believers in the positive impact business can and should have on the world it operates within.

#Our Purpose
We are led by a purpose, to make an impact that matters with clients, people and society. This purpose defines who we are and what we stand for. It's not about being the biggest. It’s about being the first choice for the largest and most influential clients, and the first choice for the best talent.

#Our Values
At Deloitte we foster a collaborative culture where talented individuals can produce their best work. We value innovative thinking, diverse insights and a genuinely distinctive level of customer service through our expertise and professionalism. We value difference, with respect at the heart of our inclusive culture.

#Our Talent Experience
From day one at our firm, practitioners are part of a community. Our development and career progression framework will help them develop the skills and capabilities to succeed. The wellness of our people and the ability to offer agile working arrangements is at the center of our unique talent experience. We create a workplace that encourages collaboration, creativity, inclusiveness to ensure our staff are supported, encouraged and feel a sense of purpose and meaning in what they do each day.


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