Technical Architect (AWS)

Description:

The Opportunity:

We are currently supporting a confidential public sector organisation in the search for an experienced Technical Architect (AWS) to join their technology function on an initial 6-month contract basis for a major central government project (Government Digital Services).

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in shaping and delivering secure, scalable and resilient cloud architecture solutions within a highly regulated, mission-critical environment supporting nationally significant services.

The successful candidate will provide technical leadership across cloud platform architecture, infrastructure design and modern application environments, helping to drive cloud adoption, operational excellence and secure-by-design engineering practices across complex enterprise systems.

Role and Responsibilities:

* Design and deliver scalable, secure and highly available AWS-based architecture solutions

* Provide technical leadership across cloud infrastructure, platform and application architecture initiatives

* Support cloud transformation and modernisation programmes across enterprise environments

* Work closely with engineering, DevOps, security and operational teams to ensure architectural alignment and delivery success

* Produce high-quality technical architecture documentation, standards and design artefacts

* Ensure solutions align with security, governance and compliance requirements

* Support infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices

* Contribute towards solution assurance, technical governance and architectural review processes

* Assist with performance optimisation, resilience planning and disaster recovery considerations

* Provide guidance on cloud-native services, containerisation and modern deployment methodologies

* Support technical risk management and issue resolution across complex delivery programmes

Skills and Experience:

* Strong commercial experience operating as a Technical Architect, Cloud Architect or Solutions Architect within AWS environments

* Deep understanding of AWS cloud architecture and infrastructure services

* Experience designing secure, scalable and resilient enterprise cloud solutions

* Strong understanding of:

* Cloud networking

* Security architecture

* Identity and access management

* High availability and disaster recovery

* Experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform or CloudFormation

* Knowledge of containerisation and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes

* Strong stakeholder engagement and technical leadership capability

* Experience operating within complex enterprise or regulated environments

* Ability to communicate technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

* Experience within government, healthcare or highly regulated environments

* Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD and platform engineering practices

* Exposure to serverless and event-driven architectures

* AWS certifications are highly desirable

NB: The successful candidate will be required to undergo a basic level of security clearance before undertaking the assignment (around two weeks’ lead-time).

Applications:

Please contact Edward Laing here at ISR to learn more about our client and how they are leading the way in developing the next generation of technical solutions through innovation and transformational technology?