Hunter Bond
AWS Solution Architect - Inside IR35 - Up to £750 per day
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AWS Cloud Architect
City of London - 2 Days per Week on site
April Start Date
6-Month Rolling Contract
Up to £750 per day - Inside IR35
We are seeking an experienced AWS Solution Architect to join a strategic cloud transformation program with a London based firm in the Financial Services Industry. This role will focus on designing and delivering scalable, secure, and high-performance cloud architectures to support critical capital markets platforms, data services, and trading infrastructure.
The successful candidate will work closely with engineering, platform, and DevOps teams to define best practices for AWS architecture, guide the modernization of legacy systems, and ensure solutions meet the security, performance, and regulatory standards expected within a financial markets environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement enterprise-grade AWS cloud architectures supporting high-availability capital markets systems.
- Define architecture standards and best practices across compute, storage, networking, security, and observability within AWS.
- Lead the migration and modernization of legacy platforms into cloud-native solutions using AWS services.
- Collaborate with development and platform teams to deliver scalable microservices and containerised applications.
- Support the implementation of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CloudFormation to enable repeatable and automated deployments.
- Work closely with DevOps teams to integrate CI/CD pipelines and automated release processes.
- Ensure solutions meet regulatory, compliance, and security requirements relevant to financial services and capital markets.
- Provide architectural guidance and technical leadership across multiple engineering teams throughout the delivery lifecycle.
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- Strong experience designing and delivering AWS cloud architectures within large enterprise environments.
- Hands-on knowledge of core AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, EKS/ECS, Lambda, VPC, IAM and CloudWatch.
- Experience with AI and Machine Learning are essential for the Program!
- Experience with containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Strong understanding of DevOps principles, CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
- Experience designing highly available, scalable and secure distributed systems.
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to work across architecture, engineering, and platform teams.
- Previous experience within financial services, trading platforms, or capital markets environments is highly desirable.
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