Role Title: AWS Solution Architect
Role Purpose
This role sits within a newly established Enterprise Architecture function, supporting a multi-year transformation programme. The AWS Solution Architect is responsible for shaping and governing the cloud architecture strategy, ensuring that platforms are secure, scalable, cost-effective, and aligned with AWS best practices.
You will collaborate closely with product, engineering, and infrastructure teams to assess current-state risks, define future-state patterns, and guide delivery teams toward well-architected solutions.
* Strategic: Define cloud roadmaps, standards, and reference architectures to future-proof the organisation’s AWS estate.
* Operational: Build trusted relationships across teams to translate strategy into tangible outcomes.
* Leadership: Act as a subject-matter expert and mentor within the wider technology community.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead the cloud architecture pillar of the technology strategy, driving adoption of infrastructure-as-code and embedding the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
* Maintain high-level architecture views and model the current AWS footprint, including dependencies and technical debt.
* Facilitate design forums, present architectural options, and make decisions balancing risk, cost, and delivery speed.
* Define target and transitional states for key cloud components such as landing zones, network segmentation, identity, observability, and disaster recovery.
* Produce or review detailed designs for projects involving container platforms (EKS/Fargate), serverless workloads, analytics, and media streaming pipelines.
* Promote automation through IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Ansible) and GitOps pipelines (CodePipeline, GitHub Actions).
* Embed security and resilience using AWS organisational controls, IAM best practices, encryption, and multi-region architecture patterns.
* Drive cost optimisation through reserved instance planning, right-sizing, and architectural efficiency.
* Champion cloud best practices via Well-Architected Reviews, knowledge-sharing sessions, and mentoring.
* Evaluate emerging AWS services and recommend adoption where beneficial.
Required Experience & Qualifications
Essential:
* Proven experience in cloud/infrastructure architecture with hands-on AWS expertise
* AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional and AWS Certified Security
* Deep knowledge of core AWS services (e.g., VPC, EC2, EKS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, IAM, KMS, Control Tower)
* Strong understanding of hybrid networking and security (Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, VPN, WAF, Zero Trust)
* Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and CI/CD practices
* Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
Desirable:
* Experience in media or content delivery environments
* Kubernetes certifications (CKA/CKAD)
* Experience with large-scale data or streaming platforms on AWS
* Familiarity with CloudHealth or similar cost management tools
* AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional certification
* ISC² CISSP or CCSP certification