Senior Data Architect (AWS)

Project overview

Senior Data Architect (AWS)

Responsibilities

Cloud solution design

Architecture governance and standards

Technical leadership

Security and compliance

Infrastructure as Code

Performance and cost optimisation

Cloud migration and modernisation

Stakeholder engagement

Troubleshooting and escalation

Continuous improvement and innovation

• 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
• 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
• Give technical direction to engineering teams, developers, DevOps engineers and data specialists
• Review solution designs, perform architectural assurance and guide teams through implementation challenges
• 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
• Lead adoption of IaC using Terraform, CloudFormation or CDK
• Standardise reusable templates and modules for consistent, repeatable deployments across environments
• Monitor workloads with CloudWatch, Trusted Advisor and Cost Explorer
• Optimise for performance, reliability, cost efficiency and operational excellence
• Define migration strategies including rehosting, refactoring, replatforming and containerisation
• Design modern architectures involving microservices, serverless, APIs and event-driven patterns
• Act as the technical counterpart to product owners, business stakeholders and delivery managers
• Explain complex cloud concepts in clear, non-technical language
• Provide advanced support for complex issues across application, infrastructure and integration layers
• Lead root cause analysis for high-priority incidents involving AWS workloads
• Stay current with new AWS services and architectural trends
• Find opportunities to modernise, automate, simplify or improve existing cloud environments

Project details

£627 - £761/day, Inside IR35, depending on experience

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.

• Start: flexible
• Duration: 6 months
• Remote: remote
• Location: United Kingdom, GB
• Rate: 78-95 EUR/h