BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments. Job Title: AWS Solution Architect Requisition ID: Location: London/Manchester/Leeds : We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements : please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role. Grade: GG11 : GG13 Referral Bonus: GBP 5,000 As an AWS Solution Architect you will be working with our customers to define and architect the functional blocks of AWS to support their Cloud adoption journey and beyond. This is a key role working closely with the customer. You will elicit customer requirements for cloud adoption and Cloud:native architectures, understanding the current eco system and how the cloud migration will fit into this. The role will define patterns and services that are required for a successful migration to AWS, and assurance that the migration is well architected. A key aspect of the role will be to endorse, support and maintain re:usable patterns for migration that will be built by the teams, utilising infrastructure as code so that future deployments can be delivered through automation and code reuse. It's an amazing time to join our team to help shape our customer's exciting cloud adoption journey. Not only will your team be directly making a huge impact upon the systems you work on, you'll be doing it for an organisation who makes a huge impact to the security of the UK. Core Duties :Take on the technical lead role in migration enablement work. :Work with the community of development teams, to deliver migration services using, common code, standards and artefact format and proactively drive collaboration, particularly where there are service dependencies :Define and document AWS architecture for migration (baseline, target, roadmap, patterns, standards, reference architectures, etc), supporting a wide range of use cases :Run architectural reviews of the platform at appropriate intervals to take best advantage of vendor technologies :Pro:actively define, optimize, automate, publish and communicate deployment patterns for migration :Support engineering teams in optimizing the migration path :Escalation point for engineering teams in troubleshooting and incident management :Driving the adoption of automation in the platform, using common methods with other platforms :Documentation of deployed systems, scripts and other working practices to enable, re:use and support users across the world About you You will have experience in many of the following: : Cloud Migration experience :Experience in Cloud Platform Architecture with AWS, defining cloud reference Architectures and Cloud Patterns in a large multi:account AWS estate :Plenty of experience in AWS and experience in solving complex business issues. Regarded as an AWS subject matter expert :Experience with various DevOps tools and CI/CD tools :Experience in AWS Security services and Network Services :Experience with working within an Agile framework :Good understanding of AWS security concepts and the goals of cyber security :Good communication skills both verbal and written :Motivating the team to use new tools to improve efficiency and breaking barriers to set new standards. It would be great if you also had experience in some of these, but if not we'll help you with them : Industry certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or Professional, AWS Speciality domains (Security, Advanced Networking) :A scaled agile framework certification, such as SAFe or ScrumScale :Managing stakeholders, including users and management :Mentoring junior engineers and nurturing their passion for engineering