AWS Cloud Technical Lead

AWS Cloud Technical Lead - AWS Adoption/Onboarding - Engineering/Architecture - Financial Services

London - Hybrid working.* 3 days office

Leading financial services client is seeking an AWS Cloud Technical Lead to join their team in London. The Cloud Team sits within Digital Engineering Services, and you will be working within a small, highly skilled engineering team responsible for designing, delivering, and supporting the organisation's public cloud platforms. AWS is being onboarded as a strategic platform, and this role will play a critical part in shaping and leading its adoption across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of cloud solutions on AWS as the platform is onboarded, ensuring alignment with their security, compliance, and architectural standards.
• Collaborate closely with application, security, and infrastructure teams to deliver secure, scalable, resilient cloud solutions for business applications and services.
• Drive improvements in platform stability, security, automation, and cost efficiency, working alongside other cloud team members to establish best practices and reusable patterns.
• Produce clear and robust architectural designs based on business and technical requirements and contribute to the development of AWS governance frameworks and landing zone patterns.
• Act as a technical point of escalation for AWS-related issues, guiding engineering peers and promoting high standards of cloud engineering across the organisation.
• Support AWS onboarding activities, including service enablement, landing zone configuration, guardrail implementation, and integration with enterprise tooling.

Skills and experience required:

• Real world experience designing, implementing, and supporting AWS services in production environments.
• Practical experience with Git-based workflows, including branching strategies, pull requests, and CI/CD integration.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code, using CloudFormation and/or Terraform to create repeatable, governed cloud patterns.
• Ability to design scalable, reliable, secure, and cost-effective cloud architectures, following AWS best practices and Well Architected principles.
• Strong understanding of IAM and security best practices, including least privilege, identity patterns, network segmentation, and governance controls.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex cloud issues across networking, compute, identity, and automation layers.
• Scripting experience (Python) for automation, tooling, and integrations.

Desirable

• Azure engineering experience, including ARM/Bicep templates and Azure platform services.
• Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and its core services.
• Ability to produce architectural design documentation, such as solution diagrams, sequence flows, and patterns that align with enterprise governance.

If this is of interest and you have the required skills, please submit your CV over for immediate consideration.

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.