Principal AWS Cloud Architect, Technology Consulting- London, Leeds, Manchester or Newcastle
Adelphi Group · England, GB
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About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Cloud Architect to shape cloud strategy and platform capabilities for public sector and regulated clients. This senior role involves setting architectural direction, advising stakeholders, and leading delivery teams to design scalable, secure, and resilient cloud solutions that accelerate digital transformation.
Responsibilities
- Play a pivotal role in shaping cloud strategy and platform capabilities for clients.
- Design scalable, secure, and resilient cloud solutions.
- Accelerate digital transformation and operational excellence through modern architecture, platform engineering, DevOps practices, and infrastructure automation.
- Deliver sustainable outcomes in complex and regulated environments.
- Own complex cloud transformation and platform delivery initiatives.
- Help clients maximize the value of cloud technologies across public sector and regulated environments.
- Lead multiple, complex areas of work to time, cost, and quality with minimal direction.
- Manage large teams as the key point of escalation.
- Partner with and influence senior stakeholders.
- Navigate the political landscape of client delivery to achieve program objectives.
- Understand the broader risk landscape and stand up multi-functional teams of SMEs to resolve complex challenges.
- Drive innovation and market-leading cloud practices across multiple clients and industries.
- Mentor engineers and architects, building capability in junior team members and client counterparts.
- Deliver measurable business outcomes through technology transformation.
- Support cloud engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) transformations.
- Implement modern CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling.
- Design and implement cloud landing zones, platform engineering capabilities, and cloud operating models.
- Implement cloud security, governance, resilience, and compliance controls for public sector and regulated environments.
Requirements
- Proven experience (8+ years) in cloud architecture, strategy, engineering, and large-scale transformation delivery.
- Professional-level AWS cloud architecture certification.
- Deep expertise in AWS cloud services and cloud-native architectures.
- Experience designing secure, scalable, and resilient platforms.
- Experience defining cloud strategies, target architectures, operating models, and transformation roadmaps aligned to business objectives.
- Experience designing and leading complex cloud migration and modernization programs across enterprise environments.
- Strong understanding of platform engineering, infrastructure automation, and modern DevOps practices.
- Experience implementing cloud security, governance, resilience, and compliance controls for public sector and regulated environments.
- Ability to partner with and influence senior stakeholders.
- Track record of understanding the broader risk landscape.
- Recognised as a subject matter expert driving innovation and market-leading cloud practices.
- Strong understanding of cloud financial management, operational excellence, and cost-effective cloud delivery.
- Experience mentoring engineers and architects.
- Experience working in client-facing consulting environments.
- Required to hold active SC clearance for this role.
- Must have been resident in the UK for the last five years.
- Must not have spent more than six consecutive months outside the UK during that period.
Skills
- AWS
- Cloud-native infrastructure
- Cloud security
- Automation technologies
- Platform engineering
- DevOps practices
- Infrastructure automation
- Cloud migration
- Cloud modernization
- CI/CD pipelines
- GitHub Actions
- Azure DevOps
- Jenkins
- GitLab
- Cloud networking
- Identity management
- Resilience patterns
- Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform
- CloudFormation
- AI techniques
- GitHub Copilot
- Claude Code
- FinOps practices
- Cloud cost optimisation
Location
- London
- Leeds
- Manchester
- Newcastle
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Permanent
- Onsite (3 days per week)
Experience Level
- 8+ years in cloud architecture, strategy, engineering, and large-scale transformation delivery
- Senior
Education Level
- Professional-level AWS cloud architecture certification
Salary/Compensations
- £82,000-£113,000
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive benefit plan
- Personalised development opportunities
- Global colleagues
- Exciting client assignments
- Rapid progression for high performers
About the Company
- Credera is a global consulting firm combining transformational consulting, deep industry knowledge, and AI and technology expertise.
- We deliver valuable customer experiences and accelerated growth across a broad range of industries worldwide.
- Our global boutique approach provides tailored, scalable solutions.
- We are a values-led organization with a mission to make an extraordinary impact on clients, people, and community.
- We work with influential brands and organizations from strategy through to execution.
- We are part of the OPM Group of Companies, a division of Omnicom Group Inc.
- Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent and building inclusive teams.
- We believe that celebrating differences makes us stronger together.
Equal Opportunity
- Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we’re focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us—we look forward to getting to know you. We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice.