AWS Cloud Solution Architect

In this role you act as a trusted cloud architectural advisor across engagements, focusing on secure, scalable, and cost-effective AWS solutions. You drive discovery, define end-to-end architectures, and guide delivery with architectural assurance. You support pre-sales and contribute technical input to proposals, while staying current with emerging technologies. You help scale transformative cloud foundations that empower AI-driven change, collaborating with cross-functional teams and mentoring colleagues.

• 25 Days of Annual Leave (+1 extra day/year for first 3 years)
• Employer-matched Pension up to 5%
• Health benefits (medical, dental, optical)
• Fitness support and bike-to-work scheme
• Commuter benefits (season ticket loans)
• Flexible hybrid work model

• Engage with customers as a trusted architectural advisor across engagements
• Lead discovery to translate business needs into secure, scalable cloud solutions
• Define end-to-end architectures and document key design decisions
• Support the Sales Team with pre-sales, solution design, and technical input to proposals
• Provide architectural guidance and assurance throughout delivery to meet requirements and standards
• Act as technical authority on cloud architecture, best practices, and internal initiatives
• Communicate decisions, risks, and trade-offs to business and technical stakeholders
• Stay current with emerging technologies and improve architectural practices and reusable patterns
• Solve complex challenges with pragmatic decisions and mentor colleagues to grow team capability

• Eligibility for Security Clearance
• Excellent communication to convey complex concepts to stakeholders
• Business acumen to translate drivers into solutions and build consensus
• Pre-Sales & RFPs experience for technical proposals and client presentations
• POCs to validate approaches and demonstrate value
• Technical leadership with influence and mentoring of junior colleagues
• AWS expertise in designing secure, scalable, cost-effective solutions
• Experience in end-to-end solution architecture including legacy workloads, microservices, containers, and integration patterns
• Cloud & DevOps knowledge including CI/CD and deployment automation
• Networking knowledge of virtual networks, routing, DNS, gateways, load balancers, connectivity
• Security & compliance awareness with AWS IAM, WAF, KMS and ISO/PCI frameworks
• Infrastructure as Code & automation with Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK; scripting with Python, Ansible, Bash, or PowerShell
• Azure or Google Cloud experience (desirable)
• AWS professional certifications (desirable)

• Excellent communication
• Business acumen
• Collaborative mindset
• AWS design for security, scalability, cost-effectiveness
• Solution architecture across legacy systems, microservices, containers, integration patterns
• DevOps practices, CI/CD, deployment automation