Cloud Platform Architect (AWS)

Location: Bristol or London (hybrid, typically 1 day per week onsite)

Type: Permanent

Salary: £90,000-£120,000 + >15% bonus, strong contributory pension, 25 days holiday.

Key words: AWS, Cloud Architect, AWS 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.