Principal Architect: Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Capco
London
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Leadership","Stakeholder management","Mentoring","Communication","Collaboration"]

Lead and shape AWS programmes for financial services, defining cloud architecture strategies, delivering AWS-based solutions, and guiding multi-disciplinary teams in agile deliveries. Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, mentoring talent, and engaging with the wider cloud community to drive transformation and delivery excellence.

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Capco
Capco
4 months ago

Principal Architect: Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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Job Summary

Lead and shape AWS programmes for financial services, defining cloud architecture strategies, delivering AWS-based solutions, and guiding multi-disciplinary teams in agile deliveries. Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, mentoring talent, and engaging with the wider cloud community to drive transformation and delivery excellence.
Location: London
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time · Permanent
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead and shape AWS-based programmes for clients, translating architectural vision into practical delivery and defining cloud architecture strategies.
  • •Bridge the gap between senior stakeholders and engineering teams, guiding multi-disciplinary teams in agile deliveries and promoting delivery excellence.
  • •Mentor junior talent and contribute to the cloud community through thought leadership and engagement.
  • •Support pre-sales activities, including proposals and commercial estimations.
  • •Design integrations across AWS, other clouds, and on-prem systems using API-led design, gateways, and BFF patterns.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceDentalPensionAnnual BonusLife InsuranceEmployee Assistance

Key Requirements

  • •Shaping enterprise-scale AWS solutions and enterprise architecture, supported by relevant AWS certifications.
  • •Advising senior leadership on cloud strategy, adoption, migration and modernisation initiatives in partnership with AWS.
  • •Domain expertise in at least one Financial Services domain (e.g., Capital Markets, Retail Banking, Payments, Wealth, Asset Management or Insurance).
  • •Leading pre-sales engagements, formal bid responses including proposing solutions and undertaking commercial estimations.
  • •Designing integrations between AWS environments, other cloud providers, legacy on-premises systems, and third-party services using API-led design, gateways, and BFF patterns.
Experience:Financial servicesCloud computingAWSEnterprise architecture
Skills:LeadershipStakeholder managementMentoringCommunicationCollaboration
Certifications:AWS Certifications
Languages:English
Tech Stack:AWSEKSLambdaEventBridgeSNSSQSAPI-led designTOGAFZachmanDomain-Driven DesignNISTSAFeDevOps

Company Brief

Capco
Global management and technology consultancy specializing in financial services. Capco advises banks, insurers, and capital markets firms on digital transformation, risk and compliance, technology implementation, and operational improvement, combining industry expertise with advisory and engineering capabilities.
Industry: Management Consulting
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Established Company
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 1998
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