Senior AWS Cloud Architect — Lead Scalable, Secure Solutions

Ubds-Group; Manchester; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical cover

Discretionary bonus

Holiday entitlement

EV leasing

Pension scheme

Death in service

Training & development

Job summary

UBDS Group is seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Architect to provide technical leadership and own cloud architecture within an agile delivery team. The role focuses on shaping secure, scalable AWS solutions and collaborating with engineers, delivery teams and business stakeholders.

You will lead cloud architecture across projects, promote cloud-native patterns, drive CI/CD and DevOps practices, and ensure security, resilience and operability while communicating key decisions to senior

Qualifications

• Significant AWS cloud architecture experience.
• Proven experience as a Senior Cloud Architect or similar.
• Strong software engineering background: Python, JavaScript, SQL/PostgreSQL.
• Strong experience with APIs, integrations and cloud-native architectures.
• Knowledge of GitHub, CI/CD and Docker.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, resilience and scalability.
• Experience leading within agile, multidisciplinary delivery teams.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and own cloud and solution architecture across delivery.
• Design solutions using AWS services and cloud-native patterns.
• Provide technical leadership to engineering teams.
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Communicate architectural decisions and trade-offs.
• Design across applications, APIs, integrations, data and infrastructure.
• Ensure security, scalability, resilience, testing and operability.
• Support CI/CD, containerisation and modern DevOps practices.
• Engage with senior technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Remain involved throughout agile delivery.

Skills

AWS cloud architecture

Senior Cloud Architect experience

Python/JavaScript/SQL

APIs & cloud-native architectures

Cloud security & resilience

Agile delivery leadership

Stakeholder communication

Cloud leadership

Tools

GitHub

CI/CD

Docker

Job description

UBDS Group is seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Architect to provide technical leadership and own cloud architecture within an agile delivery team. The role focuses on shaping secure, scalable AWS solutions and collaborating with engineers, delivery teams and business stakeholders.

You will lead cloud architecture across projects, promote cloud-native patterns, drive CI/CD and DevOps practices, and ensure security, resilience and operability while communicating key decisions to senior