Solutions Architect - Legacy-to-Cloud AWS Migration

Solution Architect - Legacy-to-Cloud Migration

SC Eligible - BPSS to start

Location: Telford 2 days attendance per month

6 month initial period with option to extend

Rate: £650 PD - Inside IR35

As a Solutions/Migration Architect, you will turn service discovery outputs and established migration patterns into an executable technical migration approach. You will work at service and POD level, understanding the full application and infrastructure stack, integrations, upstream and downstream dependencies, connectivity and operational constraints.

The strongest candidate will combine architecture experience with an engineering or infrastructure background. They will be comfortable getting into the technical detail, steering engineers and solving the practical problems involved in moving complex legacy services. Success will come from disciplined migration delivery, technical breadth, integration awareness and a pragmatic focus on safe transition.

You will steer engineering teams through planning, migration, testing and cutover. This requires an architect who is comfortable working in technical detail, solving difficult migration problems and making pragmatic decisions that protect service continuity. The role is not focused on enterprise strategy, future-state innovation or introducing cloud-native redesign.

Skills and Experience

Proven experience as a Solution Architect, Technical Architect or Migration Architect on large-scale hosting transition, application migration or cloud migration programmes comparable to a large-scale data centre exit programme.
Direct experience moving live services rather than solely designing target-state or greenfield cloud solutions.
Strong technical understanding across applications, infrastructure, databases, middleware, networks and service integration.
Experience interpreting service discovery information and converting it into practical migration plans using defined patterns or repeatable migration approaches.
Experience managing complex upstream and downstream dependencies and re-establishing connectivity across firewalls, networks and hosting boundaries.
Experience providing technical leadership to engineers through migration planning, execution, testing, cutover and rollback.
Ability to work in technical detail, investigate difficult service-specific problems and make pragmatic decisions under delivery constraints.
Broad exposure to legacy enterprise estates. Candidates are not expected to be deep specialists in every technology, but should be comfortable working across mixed stacks and coordinating relevant SMEs.
Strong understanding of operational readiness, security, access, resilience, monitoring, testing and service continuity requirements.
Experience operating within architectural governance, technical controls and multi-supplier delivery environments.
Clear communication skills and confidence working with engineers, service owners, technical SMEs and senior programme stakeholders.
Experience of UK public-sector, regulated or business-critical service environments.
Experience migrating services into AWS and managed hosting environments such as managed hosting, including virtual-machine-led rehosting or relocation approaches.
Experience with one or more legacy technology groups such as Java, .NET, Oracle, WebLogic, IIS, Windows/Linux, AIX, Solaris, COBOL, GEN or mainframe.
Experience of high-volume wave-based migration programmes involving multiple PODs, Wave Squads, services and parallel technical teams.If your profile demonstrates strong and recent experience in the above areas - please submit your application to Jackie Dean at TXP for consideration. Please note applications must include your current location to be considered