Solution Architect (IT)
Solution Architect 6 Month contract initially + Extensions Based: Remote with 1 day per week in London Rate: £Market rates p/d - (via Umbrella company) We have a great opportunity with a world leading organisation where you will be provided with all of the support and development to succeed. A progressive organisation where you can really make a difference. We have a great opportunity for a Solution Architect to join the team. Key Responsibilities; Enterprise Architecture & Strategy
- Define and own enterprise cloud architecture strategy aligned with business and IT roadmaps
- Establish cloud reference architectures, standards, and design patterns
- Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles and organisational standards
- Architect highly available, resilient, and secure AWS platforms at enterprise scale
- Design multi-account AWS environments using AWS Organizations and Control Tower
- Lead architecture for hybrid and enterprise integration scenarios
- Apply AWS Well-Architected Framework across all solutions
- Define enterprise-wide IaC standards, module frameworks, and lifecycle management
- Create solutions for automated provisioning for multi-environment and multi-account deployments
- Ensure Terraform governance, security, and compliance controls
- Design and govern enterprise CI/CD frameworks and reusable pipeline templates
- Create solutions for Integration of CI/CD with Terraform, AWS services, and security tooling
- Enable DevSecOps practices including automated testing, scanning, and approvals
- Support advanced deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling deployments)
- Lead Python-based automation initiatives for cloud operations and platform engineering
- Create solutions for automation for provisioning, compliance, monitoring, and remediation
- Design serverless automation using AWS Lambda and event-driven architectures
- Promote automation-first and self-service cloud platforms
- Embed security-by-design and zero-trust principles
- Define IAM, network security, and data protection standards
- Ensure compliance with enterprise, regulatory, and audit requirements
- Implement logging, monitoring, and auditability across platforms
- Act as enterprise-level technical authority and design approver
- Partner with senior stakeholders, product owners, and delivery leads
- Mentor architects and senior engineers across teams
- Drive architectural reviews, documentation, and decision forums
- Expert AWS architecture experience (VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, Route 53, CloudFront)
- Terraform (expert level) - enterprise modules, remote state, policy-as-code
- CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps)
- Strong Python automation skills (boto3, APIs, scripting, Lambda)
- Deep understanding of cloud networking, security, and identity
- Experience with container platforms (Docker, ECS, EKS)
- 13+ years in IT with 5-7+ years in cloud / solution / enterprise architecture roles
- Proven experience designing enterprise-scale AWS platforms
- Experience governing architecture across multiple teams and programmes
- Strong background in DevOps and platform engineering
- AWS Solutions Architect - Professional certification
- TOGAF or equivalent enterprise architecture certification
- Kubernetes (EKS) advanced experience
- Experience with FinOps and cost governance
- Exposure to multi-cloud or hybrid cloud architectures
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