AWS Cloud Architect in Newport

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.

• 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.