Cloud Migration Technical Architect
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The Cloud Migration Technical Architect leads the end-to-end planning, architecture, governance, and technical execution of enterprise cloud migration programmes across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The architect will develop migration strategies, design target-state architectures, lead technical delivery teams, and ensure successful migration of applications, infrastructure, and platforms with minimal business disruption.
In addition, the role operates within a managed services environment, providing advanced (L4)technical support for complex escalations, ensuring continuous service availability, and driving operational excellence across multi-technology domains including cloud, networking, security, and infrastructure.
1. Migration Strategy
- Assess current on-premises environments and application portfolios.
- Develop cloud adoption and migration strategies.
- Perform application discovery and dependency mapping.
- Define migration waves and migration roadmaps.
- Recommend appropriate migration approaches (Rehost, Replat form, Refactor, Repurchase,Retire, Retain).
2. Architecture Design
- Design landing zones and cloud foundations.
- Develop hybrid cloud architectures.
- Design networking, security, identity, backup, DR and governance.
- Produce High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD).
- Establish architecture standards and reusable reference architectures.
3. Migration Delivery
- Lead migration planning and execution.
- Review migration runbooks.
- Coordinate migration windows.
- Oversee cutover and rollback planning.
- Resolve technical issues during migration.
4. Technical Leadership
- Lead technical workshops with customers.
- Mentor engineers and technical leads.
- Conduct architecture reviews.
- Ensure compliance with enterprise standards.
- Support complex troubleshooting.
5. Governance &Risk
- Identify migration risks.
- Define mitigation strategies.
- Review technical quality.
- Ensure security and compliance requirements are met.
- Participate in Change Advisory Board(CAB).
6. Customer Engagement
- Present migration strategies to executives.
- Conduct discovery workshops.
- Provide technical assurance.
- Support pre-sales and solution development.
Requirements
Qualifications and Certifications
- Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- Mandatory Certifications
- Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Amazon Web Services AWS Certified Solutions Architect– Professional
- The Open Group TOGAF Certified
- ITIL 4 Foundation
Preferred
- VMware Certified Professional (VCP-DCV)
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- Azure Administrator Associate
- AWS SysOps Administrator
- CISSP (preferred)
- Terraform Associate
- Additional cloud-native and container certifications are advantageous.
Cloud Platforms
- Microsoft Azure
- AWS
- Google Cloud (desirable)
- Hands-on GCC exposure is mandatory.
Strong knowledge of
- VMware
- Hyper-V
- Windows Server
- Linux
- Active Directory
- Microsoft Entra ID
- DNS
- DHCP
- Storage
- SAN
- Backup
- Disaster Recovery
Experience with
- VPN
- ExpressRoute
- AWS Direct Connect
- Firewalls
- Load Balancers
- DNS
- Routing
- Network segmentation
Experience with several of
- Azure Migrate
- Azure Site Recovery
- AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)
- AWS Migration Hub
- VMware HCX
- Azure Database Migration Service
- Cloud Endure
- Carbonite Migrate
- Azure Landing Zone Accelerator
Experience with
- PowerShell
- Python
- Terraform
- Bicep
- ARM Templates
- Ansible
- 10+ years Infrastructure Architecture
- 5+ years Cloud Architecture
- 5+ years leading enterprise cloud migrations
- Experience migrating 500+ server environments
- Experience leading migration teams
- Experience with regulated industries preferred
The successful candidate should demonstrate experience in
- Cloud Readiness Assessments
- Application Dependency Mapping
- Cloud Adoption Frameworks
- Landing Zone Design
- Migration Factory Planning
- Migration Wave Planning
- Cost Optimisation
- Security Architecture
- Identity Integration
- Disaster Recovery
- Hybrid Cloud Architecture
- Cloud Governance
- Infrastructure as Code
- Automation
- Executive Stakeholder Management
Other
Job Description: Cloud Migration Technical Architect (Grade 6)