AWS Solution Architect

AWS Solution Architect - Cambridge (2 days a week) - £345 We are looking for an experienced Solution Architect to design and lead the implementation of scalable, cloud-native systems on AWS. You will work across engineering, product, and business stakeholders to define architecture for distributed microservices platforms powered by event-driven patterns - translating complex requirements into resilient, production-grade solutions. Architecture Design andamp; Governance Define end-to-end system architectures aligned with business goals and engineering capabilities. Establish and enforce design principles, architectural standards, and best practices. Conduct architecture reviews, threat modelling sessions, and design critiques. Own and maintain technical roadmaps across multiple product domains. Microservices Strategy Lead service decomposition efforts using Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles. Define domain boundaries, bounded contexts, and inter-service communication contracts. Design RESTful, GraphQL, and gRPC APIs with a focus on backward compatibility and versioning. Set patterns for service resilience: circuit breakers, retries, bulkheads, and rate limiting. Establish observability standards: distributed tracing, structured logging, and metrics. Event-Driven Architecture Design event streaming and async messaging systems using Apache Kafka, Amazon SQS/SNS, EventBridge, and Kinesis. Define and enforce event schema standards and schema evolution strategies. ..... full job details .....