Solutions Cloud Architect

Senior Solutions Architect –  AWS -Cloud Architect – Fully Remote – £90,000-£100,000

Our Client a government body require a Senior Solutions Architect with extensive AWS experience who has lived in the UK longer than 5 years or is SC Cleared.

Our client deliver secure cloud hosted solutions into the public and private sectors, they are rapidly expanding and are looking to hire a Solution Architect to support their product delivery.

The successful candidate will need to have a good blend of HLD and LLD design experience around Security, Data, Cloud, Service and Solution. You will be seeing designs through from start to finish incorporating everything from technology to solution, assurance, governance, and security (pen testing) – Not from a hands-on perspective but from a design perspective. You will need to be client facing and be able to make complex designs seem simple to customers.

Key Tasks:

• Research and develop high level and detailed solution designs
• Monitor technical deliverables against the designs, manage and report on design divergences
• Contribute to technical Change Requests
• Maintain and monitor solutions against Non-functional requirements, design principles and patterns
• Support solution option analysis and provide architectural recommendations
• Maintain the AsIs design against the build identifying design branches to be included into the core Aker product set
• Capture the technology stack and map to the architecture
• Closely collaborate with and guide the DevOps and application development teams

Core Competencies

• Skilled in designing distributed, event driven systems
• Platform and application development
• Has recently designed services that reside on AWS
• Has the ability to work in and has strong knowledge of agile development and modern CD/CI approaches
• Understands how security design is integrated into the solution design

Will need extensive experience in:

• Delivery – designing, delivering platforms and managed services at enterprise scale, specifically bespoke software solutions, particularly in streaming and cloud-native solutions
• Data – solving enterprise data and analytics problems using technology
• Cloud – hands-on Public Cloud experience in  AWS in both  ‘services’ and ‘how’ to work in the cloud such as DevOps-centric approach
• Security – having worked in sensitive data environments

For more information please contact Grant Hunnisett