Senior AWS Solution Architect (Modernisation)

Cloud Bridge Tech Recruitment; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic cloud services company seeks a Senior AWS Solution Architect to modernise legacy applications and databases for customers transitioning to AWS. This role involves customer consulting, technical design, and implementation of cloud-native architectures. Applicants should have extensive experience with AWS services, database migrations, and development practices. The position offers numerous benefits, including flexible working arrangements, generous paid time off, and a focus on employee wellbeing.

Benefits

25 Days Paid Time-off

Company Bonus Scheme

Flexible Working

Company Laptop and Peripherals

Private Health Insurance

Qualifications

• Proven experience in customer-facing solution architecture or technical consulting.
• Strong ability to communicate complex technical concepts to business and technical stakeholders.
• Experience leading technical teams and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Engage with customers to understand their legacy application and database environments.
• Design AWS architectures that are scalable, secure, and cost-optimised.
• Lead modernisation efforts for various database types.

Skills

AWS Database Services RDS

Database Migration Experience

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Cloud-Native & Serverless

DevOps & CI / CD

AI-Powered development experience

Security & Compliance

Performance Tuning & Optimisation

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Job description

At Cloud Bridge we are one of the fastest-growing and most dynamic AWS partners transforming how businesses leverage AWS cloud services. We specialise in cloud consultancy managed services cloud governance FinOps and AI / ML to help organisations unlock the full potential of AWS.

Recognised as AWSs Rising Star Partner of the Year for 2023 in EMEA and 2022 in the UK&I were expanding globally with new offices in Australia South Africa Singapore and Dubai a strong presence in the Philippines and our HQ in the UK.

Weve managed hundreds of cloud migrations architectural projects cost optimisations and support services for a diverse range of customers from start-ups to public sector organisations.

As an AWS Premier Partner we enhance IT experiences for clients across various sectors. If youre ready to make a difference and join an exciting journey with Cloud Bridge and AWS we want to hear from you.

As a Senior AWS Solution Architect (Modernisation) youll work with customers to modernise legacy applications and databases as they migrate to AWS. You will be a technical authority in designing and delivering cloud-native architectures serverless solutions application and database modernisation strategies. This role combines hands‑on technical work customer consulting and practice development helping us define and scale modernisation offerings.

Key Responsibilities

Customer Engagement & Solution Design

• Engage with customers to understand their legacy application and database environments.
• Define modernisation strategies focusing on database migration re-platforming and serverless adoption.
• Design AWS architectures that are scalable secure and cost‑optimised.
• Act as a trusted advisor providing technical leadership to both internal teams and customers.

Database Modernisation & Migration

• Lead modernisation efforts for SQL Server Oracle MySQL PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases.
• Drive migrations using AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) Schema Conversion Tool (SCT) and Babelfish for Aurora.
• Implement Amazon RDS Aurora DynamoDB and ElastiCache to replace legacy databases.
• Optimise database performance through sharding partitioning and caching strategies.

Cloud-Native & Serverless Adoption

• Architect solutions leveraging AWS Lambda API Gateway Step Functions and EventBridge.
• Support customers in breaking down monolithic applications into microservices.
• Define event-driven and asynchronous processing patterns to improve scalability.

Infrastructure as Code & DevOps

• Automate database deployments using Terraform AWS CloudFormation and AWS CDK.
• Integrate database changes into CI / CD pipelines using tools like Flyway or Liquibase.
• Define observability and monitoring strategies using CloudWatch X-Ray and Prometheus.

Practice & Team Development

• Contribute to the development of modernisation frameworks methodologies and best practices.
• Help shape packaged offerings including AWS MAP-funded modernisation engagements.
• Mentor junior architects and engineers fostering a high-performance technical culture.

Required Skills & Experience

Technical Expertise

• AWS Database Services RDS (PostgreSQL / MySQL / SQL Server) Aurora DynamoDB ElastiCache.
• Database Migration Experience with AWS DMS SCT and heterogeneous migrations.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Terraform CloudFormation CDK.
• Cloud-Native & Serverless AWS Lambda Step Functions API Gateway ventBridge.
• DevOps & CI / CD GitHub Actions AWS CodePipeline database schema versioning (Flyway / Liquibase).
• AI-Powered development experience
• Security & Compliance IAM KMS Secrets Manager AWS Backup GDPR considerations.
• Performance Tuning & Optimisation Query tuning indexing caching connection pooling.

Consulting & Leadership Skills

• Proven experience in customer-facing solution architecture or technical consulting.
• Strong ability to communicate complex technical concepts to business and technical stakeholders.
• Experience leading technical teams and mentoring engineers.
• Ability to define modernisation roadmaps and business cases.

Desirable Skills (Nice-to-Have)

• Experience with Redshift Neptune Timestream or other AWS data services.
• Knowledge of multi-cloud (GCP / Azure) and hybrid cloud environments.
• Familiarity with machine learning & analytics pipelines on AWS.
• Experience working on AWS MAP-funded modernisation projects.

Benefits

• 25 Days Paid Time-off
• Birthday Leave
• Company Bonus Scheme
• Flexible Working
• Early Friday Finish (Monthly)
• Company Laptop and Peripherals
• Company Sabbatical Scheme
• Personalised Training & Development Plan
• Annual Wellness Allowance
• Company Events
• Private Health Insurance
• Wellbeing support
• Mental Health Champions
• Calm app subscription

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Employment Type: Full Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1