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# AWS Solution Architect

- **Company:** Anson McCade
- **Location:** Leeds, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Engineering, Cyber Security, DevOps, Network Service, Scaled Agile Framework, Cloud Platform System, Cloud Migration
- **Published:** July 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/aws-architect/anson-mccade-job107740039

## About the Role

You'll have experience in many of the following:

 * Cloud migration experience
 * Experience in cloud platform architecture with AWS, defining cloud reference architectures and patterns in a large, multi-account AWS estate
 * Strong AWS experience, with a track record of solving complex business issues - regarded as an AWS subject matter expert
 * Experience with DevOps and CI/CD tools
 * Experience with AWS security services and network services
 * Experience working within an Agile framework
 * Good understanding of AWS security concepts and cyber security goals
 * Strong verbal and written communication skills
 * Ability to motivate teams to adopt new tools and set new standards

Nice to have (but not essential):

 * Industry certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional), or AWS Speciality certifications (Security, Advanced Networking)
 * A scaled agile framework certification, such as SAFe
 * Experience managing stakeholders, including users and senior management
 * Experience mentoring junior engineers

## Description

As AWS Solution Architect, you'll work closely with customers to define and architect the functional blocks of AWS to support their cloud adoption journey and beyond. This is a key, customer-facing role - eliciting requirements for cloud adoption and cloud-native architectures, understanding existing ecosystems, and defining the patterns and services needed for a successful, well-architected migration to AWS.

Core duties

 * Take the technical lead role in migration enablement work
 * Work with the wider community of development teams to deliver migration services using common code, standards and artefact formats - driving collaboration, particularly around service dependencies
 * Define and document AWS architecture for migration (baseline, target, roadmap, patterns, standards, reference architectures, etc.), supporting a wide range of use cases
 * Run architectural reviews of the platform at appropriate intervals to make best use of vendor technologies
 * Proactively define, optimise, automate, publish and communicate deployment patterns for migration
 * Support engineering teams in optimising the migration path
 * Act as an escalation point for engineering teams on troubleshooting and incident management
 * Drive the adoption of automation across the platform, using common methods with other platforms
 * Document deployed systems, scripts and working practices to enable re-use and support for users globally


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