At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the design and evolution of AWS cloud platforms in a dynamic financial services environment.
- Company: Join a forward-thinking financial services firm with a focus on cloud innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, 15% bonus, 25 days holiday, and private medical care.
- Other info: Enjoy hybrid working and significant career growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Shape the future of cloud architecture and make a real impact in a critical transformation programme.
- Qualifications: Deep AWS experience and strong stakeholder engagement skills required.
The predicted salary is between 90000 - 115000 £ per year.
AWS Cloud Platform Architect Location: Bristol or London (hybrid, typically 1 day per week)
Job type: Permanent
Salary: £90,000-£115,000 + 15% bonus, 25 days holiday, 11% pension, Private medical
The Opportunity:
I am working with a key customer of mine in the financial services sector who are building a new Cloud Platform Architecture capability. As a result they are looking for an experienced AWS Cloud Platform Architect to join them in a brand new position to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of their technology landscape. This is not a traditional architecture role. You’ll combine strategic platform architecture with hands-on technical leadership, working closely with engineering teams to modernise an enterprise, regulated environment and drive the migration from legacy on-premise platforms to AWS. You’ll join a small, growing team of cloud platform architects with a high degree of autonomy and genuine influence over cloud strategy, standards, and execution.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Owning and evolving the architecture, maturity and roadmap of AWS cloud platforms, aligned to broader digital strategy.
- Defining and maintaining cloud reference architectures, principles, guardrails, blueprints and patterns.
- Working closely with cloud platform engineering to shape roadmaps and support delivery.
- Leading and contributing to solution architecture for legacy-to-cloud migrations, including complex on-prem environments.
- Acting as a senior technical authority, able to engage confidently with engineers, architects, senior stakeholders and executives.
- Partnering with security, risk and compliance teams to ensure secure, resilient and cost-effective platforms in a regulated context.
- Engaging with AWS as a strategic technology partner, influencing and shaping the relationship.
- Supporting incident resolution and complex technical problem-solving when needed.
What we're looking for:
You’ll be a credible, hands-on architect with deep AWS experience and the ability to operate across strategy, design and delivery.
Essential experience:- Strong, current hands-on AWS architecture expertise across services such as EC2, EKS, Lambda, networking, storage, backup and recovery.
- Experience designing and migrating enterprise-scale, regulated platforms (financial services, utilities, government or similar).
- Background in platform and infrastructure architecture, not just high-level strategy.
- Proven experience with legacy modernisation and data centre / on-prem to cloud migration.
- Ability to engage at all levels – from whiteboard conversations with engineers to discussions with senior leaders.
- Pragmatic, collaborative approach with strong stakeholder and influencing skills.
- Exposure to both AWS and Azure environments.
- Experience working with large engineering teams across multiple locations.
- Interest in emerging areas such as AI-enabled platforms or tooling (not required).
Why this role?
- Major opportunity to shape cloud architecture from the ground up.
- High visibility and genuine ownership in a critical transformation programme.
- A role that blends strategy, design and hands-on technical leadership.
- Strong hybrid working available.
For more information please send an up to date version of your CV over in application.
AWS Cloud Architect in Bath employer: Sanderson
Join a forward-thinking financial services firm in Bristol or London, where you will have the opportunity to shape the future of cloud architecture in a dynamic and supportive environment. With a strong emphasis on employee growth, you will benefit from a competitive salary, generous bonuses, and a comprehensive benefits package, including private medical care and an 11% pension contribution. The company fosters a collaborative work culture that values innovation and offers significant autonomy, making it an excellent employer for those looking to make a meaningful impact in their careers.
