Senior AWS Solution Architect (Modernisation)
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Job Summary
Recognised as AWSs Rising Star Partner of the Year for 2023 in EMEA and 2022 in the UK&I were expanding globally with new offices in Australia South Africa Singapore and Dubai a strong presence in the Philippines and our HQ in the UK.
Weve managed hundreds of cloud migrations architectural projects cost optimisations and support services for a diverse range of customers from start-ups to public sector organisations.
As an AWS Premier Partner we enhance IT experiences for clients across various sectors. If youre ready to make a difference and join an exciting journey with Cloud Bridge and AWS we want to hear from you.
As a Senior AWS Solution Architect (Modernisation) youll work with customers to modernise legacy applications and databases as they migrate to AWS. You will be a technical authority in designing and delivering cloud-native architectures serverless solutions application and database modernisation strategies. This role combines hands-on technical work customer consulting and practice development helping us define and scale modernisation offerings.
Key Responsibilities
Customer Engagement & Solution Design
- Engage with customers to understand their legacy application and database environments.
- Define modernisation strategies focusing on database migration re-platforming and serverless adoption.
- Design AWS architectures that are scalable secure and cost-optimised.
- Act as a trusted advisor providing technical leadership to both internal teams and customers.
Database Modernisation & Migration
- Lead modernisation efforts for SQL Server Oracle MySQL PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases.
- Drive migrations using AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) Schema Conversion Tool (SCT) and Babelfish for Aurora.
- Implement Amazon RDS Aurora DynamoDB and ElastiCache to replace legacy databases.
- Optimise database performance through sharding partitioning and caching strategies.
Cloud-Native & Serverless Adoption
- Architect solutions leveraging AWS Lambda API Gateway Step Functions and EventBridge.
- Support customers in breaking down monolithic applications into microservices.
- Define event-driven and asynchronous processing patterns to improve scalability.
Infrastructure as Code & DevOps
- Automate database deployments using Terraform AWS CloudFormation and AWS CDK.
- Integrate database changes into CI/CD pipelines using tools like Flyway or Liquibase.
- Define observability and monitoring strategies using CloudWatch X-Ray and Prometheus.
Practice & Team Development
- Contribute to the development of modernisation frameworks methodologies and best practices.
- Help shape packaged offerings including AWS MAP-funded modernisation engagements.
- Mentor junior architects and engineers fostering a high-performance technical culture.
Required Skills & Experience
Technical Expertise
- AWS Database Services RDS (PostgreSQL/MySQL/SQL Server) Aurora DynamoDB ElastiCache.
- Database Migration Experience with AWS DMS SCT and heterogeneous migrations.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Terraform CloudFormation CDK.
- Cloud-Native & Serverless AWS Lambda Step Functions API Gateway ventBridge.
- DevOps & CI/CD GitHub Actions AWS CodePipeline database schema versioning (Flyway/Liquibase).
- AI-Powered development experience
- Security & Compliance IAM KMS Secrets Manager AWS Backup GDPR considerations.
- Performance Tuning & Optimisation Query tuning indexing caching connection pooling.
Consulting & Leadership Skills
- Proven experience in customer-facing solution architecture or technical consulting.
- Strong ability to communicate complex technical concepts to business and technical stakeholders.
- Experience leading technical teams and mentoring engineers.
- Ability to define modernisation roadmaps and business cases.
Desirable Skills (Nice-to-Have)
- Experience with Redshift Neptune Timestream or other AWS data services.
- Knowledge of multi-cloud (GCP/Azure) and hybrid cloud environments.
- Familiarity with machine learning & analytics pipelines on AWS.
- Experience working on AWS MAP-funded modernisation projects.
Benefits
- 25 Days Paid Time-off
- Birthday Leave
- Company Bonus Scheme
- Flexible Working
- Early Friday Finish (Monthly)
- Company Laptop and Peripherals
- Company Sabbatical Scheme
- Personalised Training & Development Plan
- Annual Wellness Allowance
- Company Events
- Private Health Insurance
- Wellbeing support
- Mental Health Champions
- Calm app subscription
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- Solutions design
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About Company
Recognised as AWSs Rising Star Partner of the Year for 2023 in EMEA and 2022 in the UK&I were expanding globally with new offices in South Africa and Dubai a strong presence in the Philippines and our HQ in the UK.If youre ready to join a high-growth AWS partner and take your career t ... View more
