Cloud Architect

£100,000 - £115,000 + 15% bonus, up to 11% pension contribution, 25 days holiday

Are you the person who can bridge the gap between cloud strategy and real-world delivery? We're looking for an experienced AWS Platform Architect to help shape the future of a large-scale technology estate as it accelerates its cloud transformation journey and develops the cloud platforms that will support the next generation of AI-powered capabilities. This is not a traditional architecture role. You won't spend your time producing PowerPoint and governance documents from a distance. You'll be involved in defining strategy, shaping platforms and working closely with engineering teams to solve complex technical challenges. The role combines enterprise architecture, platform architecture and cloud solution design in one highly visible position.

Why this role? You’ll join a growing Architecture function with a mandate to modernise legacy platforms, accelerate AWS adoption and support the evolution of emerging AI and agentic technologies. This is an opportunity to:

• Own and evolve the AWS platform architecture strategy.
• Define cloud standards, patterns, guardrails and roadmaps.
• Influence technology direction at an enterprise level.
• Lead the migration of legacy platforms into AWS.
• Shape the cloud and AI platform foundations that will support future agentic capabilities.
• Work closely with engineering teams to solve real delivery challenges.
• Help define how cloud, automation and AI capabilities are adopted across the organisation.
• Drive innovation across both AWS and emerging AI platforms.

What you'll be doing:

• Developing and maturing AWS architecture strategy and governance.
• Designing scalable, secure and resilient cloud platforms.
• Developing architecture assets including reference architectures, blueprints, patterns and roadmaps.
• Advising on cloud-native and hybrid migration approaches.
• Collaborating with Engineering, Security and Compliance teams to deliver secure and cost-effective platforms.
• Building governance, monitoring and architectural guardrails across cloud and AI platforms.
• Supporting the adoption of DevOps, Infrastructure as Code and cloud engineering best practice.
• Evaluating new cloud and AI technologies including AWS-native AI services and emerging agentic platform capabilities.
• Acting as a technical authority for AWS and cloud platform architecture across the organisation.

What we're looking for:

• Deep AWS architecture expertise across networking, security, storage and compute.
• Experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale cloud platforms.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes, containerisation and serverless architectures.
• Infrastructure as Code expertise using Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience delivering cloud migration and legacy modernisation programmes.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience operating within regulated environments.
• Ability to engage equally well with engineers, architects and senior leadership teams.

Nice to have:

• Hybrid and multi-cloud experience.
• Exposure to Generative AI, Agentic AI, AWS Bedrock, Anthropic or LLM-enabled platforms.
• Experience evaluating AI infrastructure, governance or platform capabilities.
• Familiarity with Enterprise Architecture tooling and governance frameworks.

The opportunity: This role will appeal to architects who enjoy building rather than maintaining. You’ll inherit significant ownership, influence future AWS strategy and play a key role in shaping how cloud and AI capabilities evolve across a complex, regulated environment. If you’re looking for a role where you can define strategy, influence engineering decisions and help build the platform foundations for both cloud transformation and future AI adoption, we’d love to hear from you.