Solution Architect

Enterprise Architecture & Strategy

• Define and own enterprise cloud architecture strategy aligned with business and IT roadmaps

• Establish cloud reference architectures, standards, and design patterns

• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles and organisational standards AWS Cloud Architecture

• Architect highly available, resilient, and secure AWS platforms at enterprise scale

• Design multi-account AWS environments using AWS Organizations and Control Tower

• Lead architecture for hybrid and enterprise integration scenarios

• Apply AWS Well-Architected Framework across all solutions Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

• Define enterprise-wide IaC standards, module frameworks, and lifecycle management

• Create solutions for automated provisioning for multi-environment and multi-account deployments

• Ensure Terraform governance, security, and compliance controls CI/CD & DevSecOps Enablement

• Design and govern enterprise CI/CD frameworks and reusable pipeline templates

• Create solutions for Integration of CI/CD with Terraform, AWS services, and security tooling

• Enable DevSecOps practices including automated testing, scanning, and approvals

• Support advanced deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling deployments) Python Automation & Cloud Engineering

• Lead Python-based automation initiatives for cloud operations and platform engineering

• Create solutions for automation for provisioning, compliance, monitoring, and remediation

• Design serverless automation using AWS Lambda and event-driven architectures

• Promote automation-first and self-service cloud platforms Security, Governance & Compliance

• Embed security-by-design and zero-trust principles

• Define IAM, network security, and data protection standards

• Ensure compliance with enterprise, regulatory, and audit requirements

• Implement logging, monitoring, and auditability across platforms Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as enterprise-level technical authority and design approver

• Partner with senior stakeholders, product owners, and delivery leads

• Mentor architects and senior engineers across teams

• Drive architectural reviews, documentation, and decision forums

Core Technical Skills

• Expert AWS architecture experience (VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, Route 53, CloudFront)

• Terraform (expert level) - enterprise modules, remote state, policy-as-code

• CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps)

• Strong Python automation skills (boto3, APIs, scripting, Lambda)

• Deep understanding of cloud networking, security, and identity

• Experience with container platforms (Docker, ECS, EKS) Experience

• 13+ years in IT with 5-7+ years in cloud / solution / enterprise architecture roles

• Proven experience designing enterprise-scale AWS platforms

• Experience governing architecture across multiple teams and programmes

• Strong background in DevOps and platform engineering, * AWS Solutions Architect - Professional certification

• TOGAF or equivalent enterprise architecture certification

• Kubernetes (EKS) advanced experience

• Experience with FinOps and cost governance

• Exposure to multi-cloud or hybrid cloud architectures