Cloud-Native AWS Solution Architect | Hybrid

Cambridge University Press & Assessment (CUPA)

Cambridge

Hybrid

GBP 55,000 - 73,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave

Private medical insurance

Bonus

Pension plan

Life cover

Green travel

Job summary

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is seeking a Solution Architect to design secure, scalable cloud-native solutions on AWS for a global user base. You will partner with enterprise architects, product, engineering, and security teams to deliver technology that underpins our English product portfolio.

The role emphasises collaboration, architecture governance, and driving modern engineering practices within a hybrid Cambridge-based team.

Qualifications

Experience with AWS architecture patterns, including microservices, event‑driven architectures, APIs, serverless computing, containers, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
Knowledge of authentication and authorisation protocols, including OpenID Connect (OIDC) and OAuth 2.0, alongside cloud security design principles.
Excellent communicator able to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to translate requirements into solution architectures.
Design secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud-native solutions on AWS.
Work with engineers, technical leads, security, platform, and operations teams to apply modern engineering practices.
Produce and maintain solution architecture artefacts and architecture decision records, ensuring governance throughout delivery lifecycle.
Identify and manage architectural risks and trade-offs to enable successful programme delivery.
Contribute to improvement of architecture standards and reusable patterns.