Azure platform engineering for financial services
build secure cloud platforms for AI, modernisation and critical services.
Your Azure platform has to support critical services, meet regulatory requirements and keep major transformation programmes moving without creating more operational risk.
Strengthen the architecture, Infrastructure as Code, governance and engineering capability behind your existing Azure estate, with specialist support that works alongside your internal teams.
- Microsoft Solutions Partner designations
- Cloud Technology of the Year, UK IT Industry Awards 2025
- Financial services experience
- Azure engineering specialists
CHALLENGE 1
Your environment already supports critical services and carries valuable knowledge built over time. The strongest platform programmes build on that foundation, rather than creating another isolated solution that increases cost, complexity and operational overhead.
BlakYaks helps financial services organisations strengthen the estate they already own, using platform engineering, Infrastructure as Code and automated deployment to support the technology priorities already on the roadmap.
Strengthen the platform your organisation already operates
CHALLENGE 2
Build the Azure foundations for enterprise AI
Enterprise AI depends on more than a promising use case. It requires secure data access, governed Azure services, release controls and a production platform that can scale across the organisation.
BlakYaks helps financial services teams move AI from proof of concept to production using Azure foundations designed for governance, security and repeatable delivery.
Our AI Foundations Accelerator Pack integrates with your existing Azure Landing Zone and Azure DevOps pipelines, giving teams a governed way to deploy the first AI service and a reusable foundation for future use cases.
CHALLENGE 3
Engineer operational resilience into the Azure platform
Every new capability becomes part of the environment supporting customers, operations and regulatory commitments.
For financial services organisations, platform engineering decisions have a direct effect on operational resilience, recoverability, service continuity and how the organisation demonstrates control across critical systems.
BlakYaks helps technology teams build resilience into the platform, so new workloads follow consistent architecture, deployment and operating models from the start.
CHALLENGE 4
MIGRATE OR MODERNISE critical systems through a structured approach
Not every application needs to be modernised in the same way. Some workloads can move to Azure with minimal change, while others benefit from deeper re-architecture and cloud-native engineering.
BlakYaks assesses each workload against its technical requirements, dependencies and role in your wider technology strategy to determine the right modernisation path.
From target architecture and Azure platform foundations to Infrastructure as Code and automated deployment pipelines, we bring the engineering disciplines together to build, test and operate modernised workloads consistently at scale.
BlakYaks Accelerator Packs are fully engineered Azure solutions designed to reduce delivery time without compromising quality, governance or security.
They turn proven Azure architecture into production-ready Infrastructure as Code, giving teams a faster, governed way to deploy platform capabilities without rebuilding the same components for every programme.
AZURE ACCELERATOR PACKS
Enterprise-grade Azure platforms delivered faster
Azure Accelerator Packs
Pre-engineered Azure solutions that reduce repeated build work and support faster implementation of essential platform capabilities.
AI Foundations Accelerator Pack
Azure foundations for governed AI adoption, helping organisations move from early use cases to production services.
Specialist Operations
Ongoing Azure engineering and operational expertise to run, optimise and evolve complex platforms and live services as your technology priorities change.
BCS UK IT INDUSTRY AWARDS
BlakYaks Accelerator Packs win the category
‘Cloud Technology of the Year’
We’re proud to see the innovation and engineering excellence behind our Azure Accelerator Packs acknowledged at this level.
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AZURE PLATFORM ENGINEERING FAQs
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Azure platform engineering is the design, automation and operation of secure, scalable cloud environments that support critical services, modernisation programmes and new technology initiatives such as enterprise AI.
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Financial services organisations rely on environments that can support security, governance, operational resilience and regulatory expectations. Platform engineering creates consistent foundations for critical workloads, automation, AI adoption and ongoing service reliability.
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Yes. BlakYaks works with the teams already responsible for your cloud estate. Internal specialists retain ownership of the environment, with BlakYaks adding architecture and engineering capacity around specific programmes or platform priorities.
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Yes. An engagement can focus on a defined programme such as AI adoption, platform modernisation, landing zone development or operational resilience. The wider estate remains under your existing governance and operating model.
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Yes. Enterprise AI relies on secure data access, governed services, deployment controls and a platform capable of supporting production workloads. Platform engineering helps create the foundations required to move AI from proof of concept to wider adoption.
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BlakYaks Accelerator Packs bring together pre-engineered, tested and reusable components for faster delivery of core Azure platform capabilities. They reduce the time spent designing and building from scratch, helping teams establish AI foundations, DevOps automation, landing zones and container platforms faster, with automation and engineering best practices built in from the outset.
Discuss your platform priorities with BlakYaks
Find the right Azure platform approach for your roadmap
Tell us what Azure priority is carrying the greatest pressure, whether that is AI adoption, modernisation, operational resilience or platform automation.
BlakYaks will work with you to understand your existing Azure environment, priorities and ways of working, then define the engineering approach needed to move your roadmap forward.