Senior Cloud Architect - AWS & Cloud-Native Leader

UBDS Digital; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training sessions for personal and技hnn

Private medical cover

Discretionary bonus

25 Days holiday + Birthday + Work-annv

Electric Vehicle leasing

Contributed Pension

Death in service cover

Job summary

UBDS Group is seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Architect to provide technical leadership and own cloud architecture within an agile digital delivery team. You will lead cloud solutions across the delivery, design AWS-based architectures, and guide engineering teams through modern DevOps practices.

The role requires strong AWS expertise, software engineering background (Python/JS/SQL), API design, and a proven ability to influence technical decisions while aligning with security, scalability

Qualifications

• Significant AWS cloud architecture experience.
• Proven experience as a Senior Cloud Architect, Cloud Architect, Technical Architect or similar.
• Strong software engineering background, ideally across Python, JavaScript and 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 providing technical leadership within agile, multidisciplinary delivery teams.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, including the ability to influence technical decisions.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

AWS cloud architecture

Senior Cloud Architect

Python

JavaScript

SQL/PostgreSQL

APIs & integrations

GitHub CI/CD

Docker

Cloud security

Agile delivery

Stakeholder communication

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 digital delivery team. You will lead cloud solutions across the delivery, design AWS-based architectures, and guide engineering teams through modern DevOps practices.

The role requires strong AWS expertise, software engineering background (Python/JS/SQL), API design, and a proven ability to influence technical decisions while aligning with security, scalability