Senior AWS Solution Architect – 12‑month Contract

About the role

We are looking for a Senior AWS Solution Architect to lead the design and governance of a cloud‑based occupancy data platform. This 12‑month contract role is hybrid, based in London, and requires active SC clearance.

Key responsibilities

• Define and maintain the target architecture for the platform, establishing principles, standards and integration patterns.
• Lead technical design decisions across platform, integration and data domains, ensuring security, scalability, resilience and performance.
• Design integration approaches for WiFi, IoT and future data sources, and review engineering designs and implementation approaches.
• Support backlog refinement by assessing technical feasibility, risks and dependencies.
• Ensure alignment with the AWS Well‑Architected Framework and define infrastructure, security and operational requirements.
• Establish observability, monitoring and operational support patterns, and manage architectural risks and technical debt.
• Participate in architecture governance forums, design reviews and assurance activities while collaborating with business and technical stakeholders.

Required profile

• Active SC clearance.
• Extensive experience designing and governing enterprise‑scale AWS architectures.
• Proven track record defining target architectures for cloud, data and integration platforms.
• Strong background delivering secure cloud solutions in regulated environments.
• Experience leading architecture decisions across multidisciplinary delivery teams.

Required skills

• AWS (core services, Well‑Architected Framework)
• Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)
• CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices
• Serverless, event‑driven and API‑led architectures
• WiFi and IoT integration patterns
• Data‑intensive platform design and integration
• Security, scalability, resilience and observability design