Cloud Architect | Outside IR35 | Remote

The Role

You will help refine the target cloud architecture and ensure the proposed platform aligns with wider enterprise architecture, security, governance, operational and non-functional requirements.

Working alongside other architects and senior stakeholders, you will also support the solution through internal architecture review, assurance and approval processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Refine and document the target architecture for an AWS-hosted data platform.
• Define integration and ingestion patterns across databases, files and APIs.
• Design Amazon S3 lakehouse storage using Bronze, Silver and Gold data zones.
• Establish transformation and orchestration patterns across Databricks and supporting AWS services.
• Define secure consumption patterns for reporting, analytics, applications and APIs.
• Embed appropriate governance, security, observability, resilience and operational controls.

Essential

• Strong experience designing enterprise-scale solutions as an AWS Cloud Architect.
• Good knowledge of modern data platforms and Databricks architecture.
• Experience designing cloud integration, ingestion and data-processing patterns.
• Understanding of data lake and lakehouse architecture, including medallion patterns.
• Strong knowledge of cloud security, data governance and non-functional requirements.
• Experience aligning solution designs with wider enterprise architecture standards.
• Ability to produce clear architecture documentation and navigate formal design-assurance processes.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills across technical and business teams.

Desirable

• Experience designing unified or enterprise-wide data platforms.
• Knowledge of Databricks governance capabilities, including Unity Catalog.
• Broader security architecture experience.
• Experience delivering consultancy-led or statement-of-work engagements.

The Details

• Contract role: 3 months
• Start date: ASAP
• IR35 Status: Outside IR35
• Rate: £500-550
• Location: Remote