Senior Tech Solutions Lead — Cloud, AI & Platform

Standard Life; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 77,000 - 94,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

38 days annual leave

Private medical cover

Excellent pension

12x salary life assurance

Career breaks

Volunteering days

Job summary

Standard Life is seeking a Principal Technology Solutions Lead to set the technical vision for our customer-facing digital platforms. You will steer architecture decisions, align engineering teams, and ensure secure, scalable delivery of high‑performing customer journeys across cloud platforms and AI-enabled SDLC practices.

The role emphasizes AWS-style cloud engineering, collaboration with product partners, and delivering measurable business outcomes. Hybrid London/UK locations apply.

Qualifications

• Senior technical leadership experience across large-scale customer-facing platforms.
• Deep expertise in public cloud architecture (AWS or equivalent).
• Experience guiding architecture decisions with multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the technical vision, target architecture, and outcome-based roadmap for the customer-facing digital platform.
• Provide hands-on leadership across engineering teams, technical leads, architects and delivery partners.
• Champion resilient architecture, security by design, observability, and modern DevSecOps practices.

Job description

Standard Life is seeking a Principal Technology Solutions Lead to set the technical vision for our customer-facing digital platforms. You will steer architecture decisions, align engineering teams, and ensure secure, scalable delivery of high‑performing customer journeys across cloud platforms and AI-enabled SDLC practices.

The role emphasizes AWS-style cloud engineering, collaboration with product partners, and delivering measurable business outcomes. Hybrid London/UK locations apply.