Lead Cloud Architect - AWS

Job summary

Defra is seeking a highly skilled Lead AWS Cloud Architect to join their Cloud Centre of Excellence. The role involves defining and governing AWS usage across the organization, ensuring solutions are secure, resilient, and compliant while providing architectural assurance and guidance to delivery teams.

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS Direct Connect, VPC Peering, PrivateLink, Transit Gateway
• Experience applying the AWS Well Architected Framework
• Strong experience designing and governing workloads using serverless and managed AWS compute services
• Broad knowledge and experience designing AWS data platforms and architectures
• Proficiency in IAM, KMS, GuardDuty, Security Hub, AWS Config

Responsibilities

• Act as a senior member of the Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE), helping to define and govern how AWS is used across Defra
• Own and evolve Defra's AWS platform architecture
• Define, maintain, and publish architecture standards, patterns, guardrails, and reference architectures for AWS
• Design and document internal CCoE platform services and capabilities
• Provide architectural assurance across programmes and projects
• Attend and contribute to Cloud Design Review Boards
• Work with delivery teams to advise, guide, and unblock them on complex AWS architecture decisions
• Present architecture patterns, platform designs, and standards to senior technical and non-technical stakeholders

Skills

Relocation