Overview
The Senior Solutions Architect will take the lead on a significant Azure-to-AWS migration and modernisation project within a regulated financial services setting. This fully remote role involves guiding technical strategy and architecture, working closely with senior stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of cloud transformation initiatives. The contractor will leverage extensive AWS migration experience to facilitate application and infrastructure modernisation efforts.
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture for a complex Azure-to-AWS migration programme.
- Drive application and infrastructure modernisation initiatives.
- Guide senior stakeholders on cloud transformation strategy.
- Produce high and low-level designs, migration plans, and technical governance.
- Act as the senior technical authority throughout delivery.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading Azure to AWS migrations across infrastructure, databases, and legacy application estates.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS Migration Acceleration Programme (MAP).
- Experience with Amazon EKS and modernisation from Windows to Linux.
- Proficiency in SQL Server to PostgreSQL migrations and AWS RDS PostgreSQL.
- Ability to define migration strategies, target architectures, and modernisation roadmaps.
- Excellent customer-facing communication and executive stakeholder presentation skills.