AWS Solutions Architect – Pre-Sales (Gov/Public)

Scrumconnect Consulting; Llanelli; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Scrumconnect Consulting is a UK-based digital transformation partner helping government and enterprise clients. We seek a Solutions Architect to shape and deliver change across a large estate, integrating legacy systems with modern cloud services while keeping live services stable and secure.

You will work with delivery squads, framing the big picture and drilling into design details. The role requires fast, sharp questioning and hands-on collaboration to drive architecture governance and

Qualifications

• Proven experience architecting applications and subsystems from initial concept through to live delivery (discovery, Alpha, beta and live).
• Ability to demonstrate end-to-end solutions with key decisions and what you would do differently.
• Ability to assess change quickly and form a clear view on feasibility and impact, at pace.
• Experience with Legacy estates: integrating core systems and data stores with cloud-native services.
• Broad hands-on AWS experience and knowledge of modern integration patterns (APIs, event-driven, messaging).
• Confidence recording decisions using ADRs and trade-off analysis within reference architectures and standards.
• Understanding of information security, data protection and threat modelling fundamentals.
• Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience delivering digital services in UK central government or regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Get to grips with new change requests quickly, asking the right questions of business, product and technical stakeholders to understand impacts across systems, data and integrations.
• Run rapid feasibility assessments, setting out options, risks, dependencies and rough effort estimates so decisions can be made quickly.
• Architect applications and subsystems from high-level concepts through detailed design to delivery, working with engineering squads through backlog shaping, design reviews and sprint planning.
• Design pragmatic integration and migration approaches between Legacy core systems and modern cloud services, protecting the stability of live services.
• Produce proportionate designs and solution briefs, recording decisions so squads can build with confidence.
• Act as a key technical contact for a product area alongside the lead engineer, helping prioritise which designs are needed and when.
• Take designs through architecture governance and design authority, aligned with the client's reference architectures, design guidance and technology standards.
• Support technical roadmaps and discovery work, harvest reusable patterns from squads and mentor more junior colleagues.

Skills

Architecting applications end-to-end

Feasibility assessment

Legacy to cloud integration

AWS experience

ADR and decision recording

Security & threat modelling

Stakeholder communication

Agile / government delivery experience

Rapid requirement framing

Education

Degree in computer science, engineering or related technical subject

Tools

AWS

Job description

Scrumconnect Consulting is a UK-based digital transformation partner helping government and enterprise clients. We seek a Solutions Architect to shape and deliver change across a large estate, integrating legacy systems with modern cloud services while keeping live services stable and secure.

You will work with delivery squads, framing the big picture and drilling into design details. The role requires fast, sharp questioning and hands-on collaboration to drive architecture governance and