AWS Cloud Solutions Architect | Hybrid Cambridge

Cambridge University Press; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 73,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days annual leave

Private medical insurance

Discretionary annual bonus

Pension scheme

Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary

Green travel schemes

Job summary

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is seeking a highly motivated Solution Architect to join our English Enterprise Architecture team. You will design, govern, and deliver secure, scalable cloud-native solutions on AWS, partnering with product, engineering, and security colleagues to enable world-class learning platforms.

This hybrid role requires 40-60% in-office collaboration at Cambridge and offers a competitive salary and comprehensive rewards package.

Qualifications

• Experience designing scalable AWS cloud-native solutions.
• Ability to translate business needs into architecture artefacts and ADRs.
• Strong communication to influence stakeholders and drive decisions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to translate requirements into solution architectures.
• Design secure, scalable, resilient, cost-effective cloud-native AWS solutions.
• Work with engineers, security, platform, and operations teams to ensure delivery using modern practices.
• Produce and maintain architecture artefacts and architecture decision records.
• Identify and manage architectural risks and tech debt to enable informed decisions.
• Contribute to architecture standards, reusable patterns, and governance.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to architects and engineers.

Skills

AWS

Cloud Architecture

Enterprise Architecture

Stakeholder Management

Security

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is seeking a highly motivated Solution Architect to join our English Enterprise Architecture team. You will design, govern, and deliver secure, scalable cloud-native solutions on AWS, partnering with product, engineering, and security colleagues to enable world-class learning platforms.

This hybrid role requires 40-60% in-office collaboration at Cambridge and offers a competitive salary and comprehensive rewards package.