Cloud Migration Architect
Location: Northampton, UK
Hybrid: 2-3 days working from office
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Your Role
We are seeking an experienced Cloud Platform Migration Architect to lead the architecture governance and execution of largescale migrations from on premprivate cloud to public cloud AWS Azure You will define landing zone architectures establish controls and guardrails design migration waves and oversee delivery across multiple portfolios Payments Retail Banking Cards Risk FinCrime The role requires deep expertise in cloud architecture security compliance data migration and resilient design within highly regulated environments
Key Responsibilities
Cloud Strategy Architecture:
1. Define cloud landing zone architecture networking identity security observability cost management for AWSAzure aligned with client standards
2. Create targetstate architectures and migration blueprints rehost replatform refactor application disposition and dependency maps
3. Establish architectural guardrails and patterns for multiaccountsubscription design shared services and platform services
Governance Risk Compliance:
4. Embed risk controls SOX PCIDSS GDPR UKEU regulatory expectations into architecture and delivery
5. Define IAMRBAC models secrets management key management AWS KMSAzure Key Vault encryption standards and data residency posture
6. Drive policyascode and DevSecOps practices precommit security checks SASTDAST container image scanning
Migration Planning Delivery:
7. Lead migration waves and release trains define cutover plans rollbackDR strategies and BCP alignment
8. Architect network connectivity Direct Connect ExpressRoute Transit Gateway Virtual WAN HubSpoke NATGateway and hybrid patterns
9. Oversee application assessment 6Rs dependency analysis and modernization microservices containers serverless
Platform Engineering tooling
10. Standardize Infrastructure as Code TerraformAnsible CICD GitHubGitLabAzure DevOps and golden imagesbase AMIs
11. Select and guide use of migration tools AWS Application Migration Service CloudEndure Azure Migrate Database Migration Service AWS DMSAzure DMS Snowball Data Box
12. Define observability stack CloudWatchAzure Monitor PrometheusGrafana Splunk ELK with SLOsSLAs and automated alerting
Data Integration:
13. Architect data migration RDSAuroraSQL MI CDCreplication schema conversion and nearzero downtime strategies
14. Govern API integration API GatewayApp Gateway Service Mesh Event streaming with KafkaKinesisEvent Hubs and messaging SQSSNSService Bus
Resilience Performance:
15. Design for HADR multiAZRegion Zone redundant services capacity planning performance tuning and cost optimization Savings PlansReserved Instances rightsizing FinOps governance
Stakeholder Management documentation:
16. Produce HLDLLD reference architectures decision records and governance packs present to Architecture Review Boards
17. Partner with CIOCTO platform teams InfoSec Compliance and ProgramProject Managers coach engineerig teams on patterns
Your Profile
18. 12-15 years in architecture engineering with 8 years in cloud migration and platform architecture for regulated financial services
19. Deep expertise in AWS and or Azure
20. Compute Containers EC2 EKSECS VMSS AKS
21. Serverless Lambda Functions
22. Storage Data S3 EBS EFS Aurora RDS DMS Blob Managed Disks Files SQL MI DMS
23. Networking VPC TGW Private Link Direct Connect VNet Virtual WAN Private Link ExpressRoute
24. Security Identity IAM KMS Secrets Manager GuardDuty Security Hub Entra ID AAD Key Vault Defender for Cloud Policy
25. Observability Ops CloudWatch Config Systems Manager Azure Monitor Log Analytics Automation
26. Strong IaC Terraform preferred DevSecOps policyascode OPA ConftestAzure Policy and GitOps practices
27. Proven delivery of largescale migrations 200 workloads portfolio sequencing wave planning and cutovers
28. Experience with Payments Cards Retail Risk FinCrime domains understands data lineage KYCAML controls and auditability
29. Excellent stakeholder management governance communication and leadership across business technology
About Capgemini
Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than fifty countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market-leading capabilities in AI, cloud, and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.