Cloud Lead Architect
As the Lead cloud architect, you will drive and evolve the architectural vision and strategy for our technology landscape. Reporting in a head of Architecture, this role will be pivotal in driving scalable, secure, and high-performance architecture across cloud services and infrastructure.
You will foster a culture of technical excellence and strategic foresight, while leading a team of architects and working closely with cross-functional stakeholders at all levels.
- Define and execute the cloud architecture strategy aligned with business and enterprise objectives.
- Lead the design and governance of scalable, secure, and high-performance cloud platforms and infrastructure.
- Establish and maintain cloud architecture standards, principles, blueprints, and best practices.
- Translate business requirements into cloud architecture solutions that support strategic roadmaps and value delivery.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of architects while promoting technical excellence.
- Drive architectural decision-making and governance across complex cloud systems, identifying and mitigating architectural risks.
- Collaborate with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams to align architecture initiatives with business priorities.
- Promote innovation, continuous improvement, and cloud engineering best practices while ensuring scalable and resilient solutions.
- Deep knowledge of AWS services, cloud infrastructure, hybrid cloud environments, networking, monitoring, and observability (required).
- Expertise in architectural patterns, cloud-native design, microservices, event-driven architecture, and designing systems at scale (required).
- Experience leading architecture teams, mentoring technical staff, and influencing senior stakeholders (required).
- Ability to define architecture standards, governance frameworks, technology roadmaps, and architectural decision-making (required).
- Strong understanding of integration patterns, message brokers, APIs, and familiarity with technologies such as C#, SQL, and Java (required).
- Industry-leading maternity and paternity leave and paid time off if you have caring responsibilities.
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- Financial compensation, pension, and bonus schemes.
- Tools and services to help support your well-being, including support with mental health and financial education.
- Access to gym discounts and our cycle to work scheme.
- Hybrid working - employees can work from home up to 80% of the time with 20% of office time built in.
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