Capco

Principal Architect: Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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7 months ago
London, United KingdomStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Shape and deliver transformative AWS programs for financial-services clients.
  • Define cloud architecture strategies and visions and deliver AWS-based solutions with measurable business impact.
  • Advise senior stakeholders on cloud adoption, migration, modernization, and technology investment decisions.
  • Design cloud-native platforms, distributed zero-trust architectures, integrations, landing zones, and data and AI platforms.
  • Bridge senior stakeholders and engineering teams by translating architecture into practical delivery plans.
  • Lead multidisciplinary and cross-functional technical teams through client engagements.
  • Lead presales activity, bid responses, solution proposals, and commercial estimations.
  • Mentor junior talent, contribute thought leadership, and promote delivery excellence across the Technology and Engineering Practice.

Requirements

  • Proven experience shaping enterprise-scale solution and enterprise architecture on AWS, supported by relevant AWS certifications.
  • Experience advising senior leadership on cloud strategy, adoption, migration, and modernization in partnership with AWS.
  • Domain expertise in at least one financial-services area, such as capital markets, retail banking, payments, wealth, asset management, or insurance.
  • Experience leading presales engagements, formal bid responses, solution proposals, and commercial estimations.
  • Experience designing integrations between AWS, other cloud providers, legacy on-premises systems, and third-party services using API-led design, gateways, and BFF patterns.
  • Experience designing distributed zero-trust architectures using AWS services including EKS, Lambda, and EventBridge or SNS/SQS.
  • Experience leading cross-functional technical teams in agile delivery using modern engineering practices such as SAFe and DevOps.
  • Knowledge of recognized architecture frameworks and methodologies such as TOGAF, Zachman, Domain-Driven Design, or NIST.
  • Senior or managerial consulting experience is beneficial.
  • Professional AWS certifications such as Certified Solutions Architect and architecture qualifications such as TOGAF are beneficial.
  • Experience designing enterprise-scale data and AI platforms with Redshift, SageMaker, Bedrock, and generative AI capabilities is beneficial.
  • Experience designing secure multi-account landing zones with AWS Organizations, IAM, networking architectures, and security guardrails is beneficial.
  • Experience launching greenfield cloud-native ventures or innovative digital platforms is beneficial.

Benefits

  • Permanent role in London with hybrid work arrangement.
  • Discretionary bonus, competitive pension, health and dental insurance, life insurance, and critical illness cover.
  • Mental-health support through CareFirst, Unmind, Aviva consultations, and in-house first aiders.
  • Family-friendly leave programs and eight complimentary backup-care sessions for emergency childcare or elder care.
  • Five weeks of annual leave with the option to buy or sell days.
  • At least 40 hours of annual training, including workshops, certifications, e-learning, and business coaching.
  • Gympass (Wellhub), travel insurance, Tastecard, season-ticket loans, and Cycle to Work scheme.

Tech Stack

Amazon RedshiftAWS

Categories

Solutions Engineering
Capco

About Capco

5,001-10,000 employees

Capco is a global technology and management consultancy focused on financial services, helping banks, capital markets, insurance, and wealth firms with digital transformation, risk and compliance, and data/AI-enabled modernization. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in London, it operates as a Wipro company. Its business model centers on project-based consulting, managed services, and solution delivery across strategy, engineering, and platforms for regulated institutions.

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