Principal Cloud Architect
Standard Life plc
- Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
- Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
About
Location: London, with a preference for 3 days in the office.
Flexible working: All roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process.
Closing Date: 3rd July
Salary and benefits: Up to £105,000, discretionary bonus, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more.
The Role We’re looking for a Principal Cloud Architect to be the senior technical authority for cloud architecture across RS&AM Engineering, shaping the design and evolution of cloud-native platforms and services on AWS. Combining deep hands‑on expertise with technical leadership, the role defines architecture patterns, builds reference implementations, and sets engineering-led standards that enable scalable, secure, and high-performing solutions.
In our Engineering & Transformation, you’ll report to the Head of Cloud Platform, translating platform strategy into practical, implementable architectures, leading through working solutions rather than governance alone.
Responsibilities
Define and own cloud architecture direction across RS&AM, setting principles, patterns and target-state architectures aligned to platform strategy.
Act as senior authority for AWS architecture, leading complex design decisions, resolving high-impact technical challenges and driving simplification, standardisation, and alignment across the estate.
Design, build, and deploy reference architectures and proof of concepts, establishing reusable blueprints and implementation patterns to enable consistent, scalable delivery across teams.
Define and evolve cloud standards and guardrails through modern engineering approaches to ensure secure, resilient, and consistent AWS solutions.
Embed security, resilience, and control requirements into architecture, aligning engineering-led solutions with enterprise standards, where required, balancing delivery pace with risk and control expectations.
Strong experience with serverless and distributed architecture patterns with deep hands-on AWS expertise, including designing and deploying cloud-native solutions.
A track record of setting technical direction across multiple teams or domains with proven experience as a Principal Engineer, Architect, or equivalent senior technical leader.
We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
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Languages
- English
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