Cloud Architect

Job Description: Cloud Migration Technical Architect (Grade 7)

Job Summary:

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.

Key Responsibilities:

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, Replatform, 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.

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.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

Cloud Platforms

· Microsoft Azure

· AWS

· Google Cloud (desirable)

Infrastructure

Strong knowledge of:

· VMware

· Hyper-V

· Windows Server

· Linux

· Active Directory

· Microsoft Entra ID

· DNS

· DHCP

· Storage

· SAN

· Backup

· Disaster Recovery

Networking

Experience with

· VPN

· ExpressRoute

· AWS Direct Connect

· Firewalls

· Load Balancers

· DNS

· Routing

· Network segmentation

Migration Tools

Experience with several of:

· Azure Migrate

· Azure Site Recovery

· AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)

· AWS Migration Hub

· VMware HCX

· Azure Database Migration Service

· CloudEndure

· Carbonite Migrate

· Azure Landing Zone Accelerator

Automation

Experience with

· PowerShell

· Python

· Terraform

· Bicep

· ARM Templates

· Ansible

Experience:

· 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

Technical Competencies:

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