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
Key words: AWS, Cloud Architect, Cloud Platform Architect
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 postiion 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.
Essential experience:
* 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
Nice to have:
* 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.