Solution Architect

• Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to understand requirements, build trusted relationships, and translate business needs into solution architectures.
• Design secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective AWS cloud-native solutions aligned with enterprise architecture principles, technology standards, and strategic roadmaps.
• Work with engineering, technical lead, security, platform, and operations teams to support delivery using modern engineering practices and architectural best practice.
• Produce and maintain solution architecture artefacts, architecture decision records, and technical designs, and govern architectural integrity throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Identify and manage architectural risks, technical debt, and technology trade-offs to support informed decisions and successful programme delivery.
• Help improve architecture standards, reusable patterns, governance, and cloud engineering practices across our organisation.
• Provide technical leadership, mentor architects and engineering teams, and foster collaboration, continuous learning, and architectural excellence.

Technologies:

• AWS
• Architect
• Cloud
• Support
• OAuth
• OpenID
• Security
• Serverless
• microservices

• Strong communication skills to build trust with stakeholders and influence decision-makers.
• Experience identifying architecturally significant requirements and designing solutions using modelling and diagramming techniques.
• Experience with AWS architecture patterns, including microservices, event-driven architectures, APIs, serverless computing, containers, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Robust understanding of event-driven architecture design, data products, microservices, and modern development techniques.
• Innovative approach to solving complex problems and willingness to challenge the status quo.
• Desirable: Proven experience designing and delivering secure, scalable, resilient AWS cloud-native solutions in complex enterprise environments.
• Desirable: Knowledge of authentication and authorisation protocols, including OpenID Connect (OIDC) and OAuth 2.0, and cloud security design principles.
• Desirable: Ability to balance strategic thinking with pragmatic decision-making when solving business and technology challenges.
• Desirable: Curiosity, collaboration, and motivation to deliver technology that solves customer problems.
• Desirable: Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Desirable: Strong problem-solving, analytical thinking, decision-making, leadership, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and part of the University of Cambridge. We are hiring a Solution Architect for our English Enterprise Architecture team to contribute to large-scale technology transformation programmes and support the technology strategy for our English product portfolio. You will join a team of solution and enterprise architects working to deliver high-quality digital platforms and technology that creates lasting business value. The role is permanent, full time at 35 hours per week, with a salary of £54,800-£73,250. It is hybrid in Cambridge, with 40-60% of time typically spent at the dedicated location; other flexible working arrangements and disability-related adjustments will be considered from the first day. We offer 28 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, private medical and Permanent Health Insurance, a discretionary annual bonus, a group personal pension scheme, life assurance