Test Architect - 12 Month FTC

慨正橡扯; Bristol; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days bookable holiday + flexibleB

Pension: 6% of salary paid by AND with

Aviva healthcare cover (including pre‑

Flexibenefit: £1000 assigned to you...

Life Assurance.

Income Protection.

Eye test + first pair of glasses.

Parental Benefits: Generous Enhanced M

Job summary

AND Digital in the UK is seeking an AWS Cloud Architect for a 12 month FTC to lead cloud strategy and migration efforts. You will design scalable, secure architectures, govern configuration management, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver value for clients.

The role emphasizes hands-on delivery, problem solving in ambiguous environments, and strong communication with clients. You’ll join a culture focused on growth, collaboration, and practical delivery.

Responsibilities

• Drift analysis: compare migrated dev/non-prod vs production to identify and fix configuration drift.
• Monolith landing readiness: validate colocation environment is staged, patched, and matched to on-prem production specs for remaining workloads.
• Data masking compliance: verify that non-production environments migrated to date strictly adhere to regulatory data anonymisation rules.
• Release coordination: enforce strict freeze windows and change management controls on the colocation environment to ensure total stability prior to the final cutover.
• Performance & latency testing: design and execute stress tests on dev/test infrastructure to simulate the heavy traffic and latency constraints of the tightly-coupled monolithic group.
• Regression & integration strategy: define the test cases required to prove that interconnected financial applications function flawlessly post-migration without breaking downstream systems.
• User acceptance (UAT) governance: coordinate with business units to manage UAT sign-offs on the new colocation infrastructure, ensuring compliance audits are fully documented.

Job description

AWS Cloud Architect

12 Month FTC

Who We Are

We’re on a mission to close the world’s tech skills gap.

We help organisations navigate the future of technology, combining human expertise, emerging tech and AI to deliver better outcomes, faster.

Since 2014, we’ve worked side‑by‑side with clients to solve complex challenges, build high‑performing teams, and create lasting capability. As technology continues to evolve, we believe the most successful organisations will be those that combine the best of both: human ingenuity AND intelligent technology.

That belief is embedded in everything we do. We call it the genius of the AND: deep expertise AND practical delivery, innovation AND responsibility, ambitious work AND sustainable careers.

Through our Guide, Build and Equip approach, we help organisations embrace change, deliver meaningful impact, and develop the skills they need to thrive in an increasingly agentic world.

About you:

• You care deeply about producing high‑quality work that delivers real value
• You’re comfortable navigating ambiguity and solving complex problems collaboratively
• You bring strong expertise in your craft, alongside a willingness to keep learning
• You communicate clearly and build trust quickly with clients and teammates
• You’re pragmatic, adaptable and outcome‑focused
• You enjoy sharing knowledge and helping others grow
• You value low‑ego collaboration and enjoy working as part of multidisciplinary teams

Objective

Govern configuration management and state consistency while designing and executing the end‑to‑end testing strategy to validate the colocation environment for the tightly‑coupled migration.

Key Responsibilities

• Drift Analysis: Compare the successfully migrated dev/non‑prod environments against production to identify and fix configuration drift.
• Monolith Landing Readiness: Validate that the targeted colocation environment is fully staged, patched, and matched to on‑prem production specifications for remaining tightly‑coupled workloads
• Data Masking Compliance: Verify that financial non‑production environments migrated to date strictly adhere to regulatory data anonymisation rules.
• Release Coordination: Enforce strict freeze windows and change management controls on the colocation environment to ensure total stability prior to the final cutover.
• Performance & Latency Testing: Design and execute stress tests on dev/test infrastructure to simulate the heavy traffic and latency constraints of the tightly‑coupled monolithic group.
• Regression & Integration Strategy: Define the test cases required to prove that interconnected financial applications function flawlessly post‑migration without breaking downstream systems.
• User Acceptance (UAT) Governance: Coordinate with business units to manage UAT sign‑offs on the new colocation infrastructure, ensuring compliance audits are fully documented.

Why join AND Digital?

We’re building a culture where talented people can do meaningful work, continue growing, AND enjoy the journey along the way.

Our model is designed to build belonging and connection: we’re organised into regional ‘Clubs’ of no more than 80 people, so you (and our clients) get the benefits of that small company feel while also being connected to a larger whole.

Our Practice Areas act as a ‘second home’ for our ANDis - a place where you can innovate and learn with like‑minded experts who care deeply about their craft, support each other generously, and believe the best ideas come from collaboration, not hierarchy.

Our culture is rooted in our values of Wonder, Share and Delight, and shows up through five traits that we celebrate and nurture in all our ANDis: we value curiosity, ambition and a growth‑mindset. We are deeply client‑centric. Most important of all we are human - we create an inclusive environment where people feel trusted, supported and able to be themselves.

By joining AND, we’ll provide:

• 25 days bookable holiday + flexible Bank Holidays
• Pension: 6% of salary paid by AND Digital with a further 2% paid by you (can be increased by choice).
• Aviva healthcare cover (including pre‑existing condition cover) for you.
• Flexibenefit: £1000 assigned to you via our benefits portal to select or upgrade the benefits that suit you the most. Any unused allowance from the £1000 can be taken as cash.
• Life Assurance.
• Income Protection.
• Eye test + first pair of glasses.
• Parental Benefits: Generous Enhanced Maternity and Enhanced Partner (Paternity) Leave.

Equal Opportunities Statement

Diversity and inclusion are hugely important to us, and we’re committed to providing equal opportunities for all. We’re actively recruiting for a diverse and inclusive workforce so want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application.

We want you to feel safe and empowered to let us know if you need any adjustments to be made to your application or interview process, so please speak to our recruitment team.