Senior Data Architect - AWS
Senior Data Architect (AWS) Please ensure you read the below overview and requirements for this employment opportunity completely.
Location: Remote
Day Rate: £627 - £761/day, Inside IR35, depending on experience
Duration: 6 months, extension possible
Clearance: SC and NPPV3
Nationality: Single national
Sector: Public
A major public sector programme needs a Senior Data Architect to design and govern secure, scalable cloud architectures on AWS and to guide the teams that build them. Vetting may take longer than a standard onboarding process.
Responsibilities:
Cloud solution design
Design scalable, secure and highly available architectures using AWS services such as EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, VPC and CloudFront
Choose services based on business requirements, performance needs and cost
Architecture governance and standards
Define and enforce cloud architecture best practices, patterns and standards
Make sure solutions follow security frameworks, compliance rules, IAM principles and the AWS Well-Architected Framework
Technical leadership
Give technical direction to engineering teams, developers, DevOps engineers and data specialists
Review solution designs, perform architectural assurance and guide teams through implementation challenges
Security and compliance
Implement security controls including IAM policies, encryption, network segmentation, monitoring and threat detection
Ensure compliance with GDPR, ISO27001 and PCI DSS through AWS-native tools and architectural controls
Infrastructure as Code
Lead adoption of IaC using Terraform, CloudFormation or CDK
Standardise reusable templates and modules for consistent, repeatable deployments across environments
Performance and cost optimisation
Monitor workloads with CloudWatch, Trusted Advisor and Cost Explorer
Optimise for performance, reliability, cost efficiency and operational excellence
Cloud migration and modernisation
Define migration strategies including rehosting, refactoring, replatforming and containerisation
Design modern architectures involving xehkeey microservices, serverless, APIs and event-driven patterns
Stakeholder engagement
Act as the technical counterpart to product owners, business stakeholders and delivery managers
Explain complex cloud concepts in clear, non-technical language
Troubleshooting and escalation
Provide advanced support for complex issues across application, infrastructure and integration layers
Lead root cause analysis for high-priority incidents involving AWS workloads
Continuous improvement and innovation
Stay current with new AWS services and architectural trends
Find opportunities to modernise, automate, simplify or improve existing cloud environments
Location: Remote
Day Rate: £627 - £761/day, Inside IR35, depending on experience
Duration: 6 months, extension possible
Clearance: SC and NPPV3
Nationality: Single national
Sector: Public
A major public sector programme needs a Senior Data Architect to design and govern secure, scalable cloud architectures on AWS and to guide the teams that build them. Vetting may take longer than a standard onboarding process.
Responsibilities:
Cloud solution design
Design scalable, secure and highly available architectures using AWS services such as EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, VPC and CloudFront
Choose services based on business requirements, performance needs and cost
Architecture governance and standards
Define and enforce cloud architecture best practices, patterns and standards
Make sure solutions follow security frameworks, compliance rules, IAM principles and the AWS Well-Architected Framework
Technical leadership
Give technical direction to engineering teams, developers, DevOps engineers and data specialists
Review solution designs, perform architectural assurance and guide teams through implementation challenges
Security and compliance
Implement security controls including IAM policies, encryption, network segmentation, monitoring and threat detection
Ensure compliance with GDPR, ISO27001 and PCI DSS through AWS-native tools and architectural controls
Infrastructure as Code
Lead adoption of IaC using Terraform, CloudFormation or CDK
Standardise reusable templates and modules for consistent, repeatable deployments across environments
Performance and cost optimisation
Monitor workloads with CloudWatch, Trusted Advisor and Cost Explorer
Optimise for performance, reliability, cost efficiency and operational excellence
Cloud migration and modernisation
Define migration strategies including rehosting, refactoring, replatforming and containerisation
Design modern architectures involving xehkeey microservices, serverless, APIs and event-driven patterns
Stakeholder engagement
Act as the technical counterpart to product owners, business stakeholders and delivery managers
Explain complex cloud concepts in clear, non-technical language
Troubleshooting and escalation
Provide advanced support for complex issues across application, infrastructure and integration layers
Lead root cause analysis for high-priority incidents involving AWS workloads
Continuous improvement and innovation
Stay current with new AWS services and architectural trends
Find opportunities to modernise, automate, simplify or improve existing cloud environments