Senior Consultant (Modern Infrastructure, Azure)

Doherty

About Doherty Associates

Doherty Associates (DA) have delivered IT solutions for over 30 years to world-renowned, international clients. Our customers operate predominantly in the professional and financial services sector, including leading private equity and venture capital firms and top 10 UK law firms.

We are a Microsoft Solutions Partner with four designations, hold a Tier 1 Microsoft CSP relationship and are ISO27001 & ISO9001 accredited. We work to the NIST Cyber Security Framework, and our solutions typically build upon the Microsoft stack.

Our customers rely on us to bring specialist expertise across cloud solutions, hybrid working, modern workplace, data and BI, cyber security, governance and compliance. We have built a reputation as a company that keeps its promises and delivers quality.

About the role

This is a new position in our Professional Services team and as the Senior Consultant, you will be responsible for the strategy, design and delivery of IT transformation projects for our customers across the Azure environment including strong PowerShell, Entra ID and Azure DevOps and ideally Azure SQL.

The role provides technical pre-sales consultancy and project delivery across the full project lifecycle for DA customers, ensuring that the technical solutions (proposed and delivered) meet their needs. You will also assist in developing and maintaining the Azure multi-tenant management tooling across our customer base.

Responsibilities

Technical Delivery

• Provide expert guidance on cloud Azure transformation and management, including PowerShell, Entra ID, Azure DevOps and Azure SQL, developing and implementing strategies that align with customers’ business objectives.
• Conduct assessments of customers’ environments and identify areas for improvement, specifically around securing, scaling, and ensuring high availability.
• Engage in client workshops, effectively translating business requirements into technical briefs.
• Draft pre-sales designs in accordance with the company’s technical standards.
• Provide training and support to customers’ IT staff to adopt new technologies, and internal support teams when transitioning services into operations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful delivery of projects.
• Deliver technical project work in complex environments to expected quality, time, and budget.
• Use DevOps processes and tooling for the delivery of IaaS and PaaS services, using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Discuss and represent the team’s practices internally and externally, including delivering ‘Lunch and Learn’ sessions.
• Develop your professional business network, attend events, and build relationships with key suppliers.
• Ensure timely completion of timesheets for accurate project billing and reporting.
• Support DA in the development of junior staff (e.g. service desk engineers) – lead by example, coach and share knowledge, ensuring we continue to foster an inclusive working environment.

Internal stakeholder collaboration

• Provide technical leadership in the design and delivery of IT services.
• Work with the team and Project Managers to deliver projects.
• Perform peer reviews of the team’s pre-sales designs and recommendations.
• Support the sales team in customer meetings as part of presales engagements when required.
• Contribute to post-project lessons learned meetings chaired by the Project Managers.
• Work with the Service Desk Manager to ensure appropriate handover to the Service Desk team at project closure.

Qualifications, skills & experience

• Strong experience in cloud computing, with design, delivery and management of complex Azure environments.
• Solid understanding and exposure to other adjacent technologies such as Wintel, networking, security, data, virtualisation.
• Strong working knowledge and experience of delivering projects and programmes of change in your technical area.
• Excellent PowerShell scripting and automation.
• Experience of performing diagnostics and fault-finding.
• Good communicator with client-facing experience and an emphasis on exceptional customer service.
• Experience of writing high-quality pre-sales documentation.
• Good appreciation of financial governance of projects (budget/time tracking, changes to scope, etc.).
• Exceptional organisation and planning skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Good attention to detail and appreciation of the importance of following process.

About the person

• Professional demeanour, comfortable in front of customers.
• Empathy – an ability to actively listen and support.
• Desire and curiosity to continue to learn while also sharing knowledge with colleagues.
• Analytical with the ability to solve problems autonomously.
• Proactive, with ‘can-do’ attitude and a sense of urgency.
• Enjoys technical leadership, evolving services and products.
• Reliable.
• High sense of accountability and ownership.
• Team player – understands the criticality of team collaboration as well as nurturing an inclusive working environment.

What we offer in return

• Basic salary plus performance bonus
• 34 days of annual leave (incl. 8 UK bank holidays and a day off on your birthday)
• We are passionate about our success being driven by ‘better together’ and offer hybrid working with subsidised home-to-office travel costs
• Enhanced family-friendly benefit schemes including company sick pay
• Sponsored training and development and where applicable to the role, a technical exams incentive scheme
• Private medical insurance and Employee Assistance Programme

Basic salary, performance bonus, benefits

Experience

Azure design, PowerShell, Entra ID, Azure DevOps, Azure SQL