Solutions Architect

Contract AWS Solutions Architect

****NHS Experience Essential****

💷 Day Rate: £650 (Inside IR35)
📍 Location: Primarily remote with occasional travel to London
⏳ Duration: Until January (initially)

Role Overview

We're seeking a highly skilled AWS-focused Solutions Architect to provide hands-on technical and architectural leadership across high-profile NHS and central government programmes. You'll be responsible for designing and assuring robust, secure, and scalable solutions on AWS - working across cloud migration, integration, data platforms, and enterprise-wide services.

This role requires a balance of strategic vision and technical depth: you'll shape architectural direction, engage senior stakeholders, and provide direct technical guidance to delivery teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Define, own, and communicate AWS-centric solution architectures for complex NHS and central government programmes.

• Design cloud-native solutions using AWS services (EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, Lambda, RDS, API Gateway, CloudFormation, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.).

• Lead on cloud migration, integration, and modernisation patterns within complex enterprise environments.

• Work closely with engineering, data, security, and product teams to ensure solutions are scalable, cost-effective, and secure.

• Provide technical assurance for solutions delivered by internal teams and suppliers, ensuring alignment with AWS best practices and Well-Architected principles.

• Champion interoperability, open standards, and reusability of cloud services.

• Produce and maintain high-quality architecture artefacts (solution diagrams, decision logs, reference architectures).

• Communicate technical decisions, trade-offs, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Required Experience

• 6-8+ years' experience as a Solutions Architect (or Technical Architect), ideally with NHS or central government programme exposure.

• Deep hands-on AWS expertise across multiple services and domains (compute, storage, networking, security, monitoring, automation).

• Proven experience delivering end-to-end cloud solutions in complex, regulated environments.

• Strong understanding of cloud security and compliance standards (NHS DSPT, GDPR, NCSC principles, ISO27001).

• Experience with APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, and data platforms.

• Skilled in balancing strategic architectural leadership with hands-on delivery guidance.

• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to bridge technical and business audiences.

• Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF, ArchiMate) and delivery tools (Jira, Confluence, modelling tools).

📩 Apply now or email dom@briodigital.io for more information.