AWS Solution Architect
AWS Limited
Manchester, United Kingdom
18 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Compensation
£ 90KJob location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Tech stack
Agile Methodologies
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Continuous Integration
DevOps
Scrum
Job description
You will work closely with engineering teams and stakeholders to shape cloud adoption strategies, define migration patterns, and ensure platforms are secure, scalable, and well-architected from day one., * Act as the technical lead for AWS migration and cloud enablement initiatives
- Elicit and translate business and technical requirements into robust AWS architectures
- Define and document architecture artefacts including baselines, target states, roadmaps, patterns, and reference architectures
- Design reusable migration and deployment patterns using Infrastructure as Code
- Conduct architectural reviews and ensure best use of AWS services and vendor technologies
- Support engineering teams with optimisation, troubleshooting, and incident escalation
- Drive automation, standardisation, and CI/CD adoption across platforms
- Produce clear technical documentation to support reuse and global delivery
Requirements
- Strong experience delivering AWS cloud migrations and cloud-native solutions
- Deep knowledge of AWS architecture within large, multi-account environments
- Considered an AWS subject matter expert, able to solve complex technical challenges
- Experience with DevOps and CI/CD tooling
- Solid understanding of AWS security and networking services
- Comfortable working in Agile delivery environments
- Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Desirable (Not Essential)
- AWS certifications (Solutions Architect Associate/Professional or Security/Networking specialisms)
- Scaled Agile experience (e.g. SAFe, Scrum@Scale)
- Stakeholder management and mentoring junior engineers