Lead AWS Cloud Architect - SC & NPPV3 cleared

Key responsibilities

• AWS architecture: Design secure, scalable and highly available cloud solutions using AWS services, selecting appropriate technologies to meet business, performance and cost requirements.
• Architecture governance: Establish and maintain cloud architecture standards, reusable patterns and best practices, aligned with the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Technical leadership: Provide direction to engineering, DevOps and data teams; review designs and support delivery through complex technical challenges.
• Security and compliance: Design security controls covering IAM, encryption, network segmentation, monitoring and threat detection within regulated environments.
• Infrastructure as Code: Drive the use of Terraform, CloudFormation or AWS CDK, developing reusable modules and standardised deployment approaches.
• Performance and cost optimisation: Improve reliability, operational performance and cloud efficiency using AWS monitoring and optimisation tools.
• Cloud migration and modernisation: Shape migration strategies and modern architectures involving microservices, serverless, APIs, containers and event-driven solutions.
• Stakeholder engagement: Work with product, business and delivery stakeholders to translate requirements into practical technical solutions.
• Technical escalation: Lead investigation and root-cause analysis of complex issues across cloud infrastructure, applications and integrations.
• Continuous improvement: Identify opportunities to automate, modernise and improve cloud platforms and engineering practices.

Essential experience

• Extensive hands-on experience designing and delivering AWS cloud architectures.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services, including EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, VPC and CloudFront.
• Experience setting architecture standards and providing technical governance and assurance.
• Strong cloud security knowledge and experience working with compliance requirements.
• Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform, CloudFormation or CDK.
• Experience with cloud migration, modernisation and contemporary application architectures.
• Proven ability to lead technical teams and engage confidently with senior stakeholders.
• Active SC clearance and NPPV3.
• Single nationality requirement applies.