Role Summary
Provide enterprise and solution-level architecture leadership for AWS-based platforms and services across a complex digital estate. Responsible for cloud governance, architectural assurance, and alignment to AWS best practices, while coordinating delivery across multiple teams and workstreams.
Key Responsibilities
1. Lead and coordinate AWS architecture delivery across multiple programmes, projects, and workstreams
2. Define and govern AWS enterprise and solution architectures aligned to business outcomes
3. Provide hands-on leadership for AWS solution design covering:Compute (EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda)Networking (VPC, Transit Gateway, hybrid connectivity)Security (IAM, KMS, Control Tower, AWS Organizations)Data and integration (RDS, DynamoDB, S3, event-driven architectures)
4. Chair and facilitate architecture governance forums ( Architecture Design Authority), ensuring:Design readinessArchitectural complianceClear documentation of decisions and actions
5. Ensure all AWS solutions align with:AWS Well-Architected FrameworkSecurity, resilience, scalability, and cost optimisation principles
6. Define and enforce cloud standards, patterns, and reference architectures
7. Identify architectural risks, technical debt, and non-compliance, and drive remediation
8. Coordinate and assure work delivered by offshore and distributed cloud architecture teams
9. Produce high-quality architecture artefacts including:AWS reference and target architecturesCloud roadmaps and migration strategiesDesign and assurance assessmentsDecision logs and technical guardrails
10. Support cloud governance and landing zone design, including multi-account strategies
11. Provide architectural input into cross-platform integrations and hybrid architectures
12. Participate in senior stakeholder forums and technical workshops as the AWS architecture authority
13. Embed consistent cloud engineering quality, automation, and best practices across teams
Job Title: AWS Architect
Location: Manchester, UK
Job Type: Contract
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