Platform Solution Architect - AWS

As Platform Solution Architect (Manager) at Kainos, you lead multi-skilled agile teams to design and deliver high-quality, cloud-based digital service platforms. You work with customer architects and colleagues to automate, build, and support modern platforms while guiding technical decisions and AI adoption. You champion DevOps, governance, and responsible AI practices across projects and accounts. This role combines technical leadership with people development in a people-first, collaborative culture. You help shape scalable cloud-native solutions that drive customer impact and business outcomes.

• Leading multi-skilled agile teams to design and deliver cloud-based solutions
• Providing technical leadership across projects and making essential decisions
• Championing a DevOps culture and high-quality non-functional requirements
• Staying current with technologies and advocating their use within and outside Kainos
• Developing technology strategy and identifying opportunities to win new business
• Coaching and developing senior staff and fostering team growth
• Promoting AI-Augmented practices and responsible AI adoption across projects

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to convey technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• Strong prioritisation and time management across multiple large projects
• Proven team leadership and DevOps culture fostering
• Experience delivering modern digital service platforms in production environments
• Extensive expertise across multiple public clouds (AWS, Azure) and CD/CI concepts
• Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes) and cloud-native tooling
• Experience applying AI to improve outcomes and evolve ways of working

• Communication
• Leadership
• Strategic thinking
• AWS
• Azure
• Kubernetes