Sparta Global
AWS Solution Architect
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This role is structured as an initial 6 Month FTC, with plenty of room for extensions, and requires 2-3 days p/w onsite in London.
Candidates must be eligible for SC Clearance or hold live SC Clearance. Unfortunately, we are unable to consider applicants who have not been resident in the UK for the past five years, or who have spent a continuous period of three months or more outside the UK during that time.
Role Summary:
Sparta Global are hiring an AWS Solution Architect who can bring broad AWS platform knowledge, architectural leadership and cloud best practice to support upcoming releases and longer-term platform evolution.
We are particularly interested in candidates who can bring experience from multiple AWS implementations and apply proven patterns, lessons learned and industry best practices to help guide platform evolution.
This is a delivery-focused architecture role. The successful candidate is expected to work closely with engineering teams, participate in technical decision-making, review designs, mentor team members and provide practical guidance throughout implementation. We are not seeking a purely governance or enterprise architecture role.
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- Provide architectural leadership across the AWS platform.
- Make and validate key AWS architecture decisions.
- Identify opportunities to simplify, standardise and modernise solutions.
- Reduce technical risk through pragmatic design guidance.
- Support engineering teams with architectural direction and mentoring.
- Help establish platform patterns, standards and guardrails.
- Shape future platform capabilities and roadmap options.
- Promote operational excellence, scalability, resilience and cost efficiency.
- Act as a trusted technical advisor, bringing experience from multiple AWS implementations and helping the team apply proven cloud patterns and practices.
Essential Skills & Experience:
- Strong AWS architecture experience in production environments.
- Experience applying AWS Well-Architected principles.
- Experience designing and evolving SaaS, platform or cloud-native products.
- Ability to balance short-term delivery needs with long-term platform strategy.
- Experience improving operational maturity, observability and supportability.
- Experience optimising AWS services and cloud costs.
- Experience mentoring engineers and developing technical capability within teams.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
- Experience acting as the primary AWS SME and architectural authority within a delivery team.
- Experience supporting products through growth and scale.
- Experience working within Agile delivery teams.
- Experience with identity, onboarding and platform management services.
- Experience working alongside existing architecture functions rather than operating as a standalone enterprise architect.
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