Senior AWS Solutions Architect – Data & AI (Hybrid)

Ocho People Ltd.; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Pension 8%

36 days holiday

Gym/parking stipend

Private health, dental and life insure

Hybrid Belfast office 2 days/wk

High-profile programme

Job summary

Ocho People Ltd. in Belfast is seeking a Solutions Architect to set and own the architecture for a major insurance modernisation programme, spanning data processing, system integrations and user workflows.

You’ll work with engineers, product owners and enterprise architects, sitting inside sprints rather than upstream governance. You’ll translate business complexity into clear designs, challenge trade-offs, and explain architectural direction to senior stakeholders, with hybrid working two days

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a Solutions Architect or senior design lead.
• Experience delivering cloud-native solutions on AWS with ADRs and NFRs.
• Experience integrating modern and legacy systems with agile teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the solution architecture across multiple teams and data pipelines.
• Translate architectural direction into actionable designs aligned with standards.
• Produce ADRs and non-functional requirements specifications.
• Own the API contract model between platform and experience layers.
• Lead Well-Architected Reviews across security, reliability, performance, cost.
• Identify architectural risks early, especially around integration contracts and data consistency.
• Support agile delivery, joining sprint ceremonies and architecture syncs.
• Collaborate with security and observability to ensure secure by default.
• Keep pace with AI and cloud developments and apply responsibly.

Skills

Solutions Architecture

AWS

Data Architecture

Stakeholder Management

Cloud-native/Microservices

API Design

Tools

AWS

Neptune

Neo4j

API Gateway

Serverless

Job description

Ocho People Ltd. in Belfast is seeking a Solutions Architect to set and own the architecture for a major insurance modernisation programme, spanning data processing, system integrations and user workflows.

You’ll work with engineers, product owners and enterprise architects, sitting inside sprints rather than upstream governance. You’ll translate business complexity into clear designs, challenge trade-offs, and explain architectural direction to senior stakeholders, with hybrid working two days