Application Consultant AWS Cloud Migration

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Strong experience delivering AWS cloud migration and data migration consultancy within large-scale enterprise environments.
• Proven ability to define migration strategies, approaches, and roadmaps for complex transformation programmes.
• Experience working with legacy applications and databases, including assessment of migration risks and dependencies.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience supporting programme-level decision making through discovery, analysis, and migration planning activities.
• Strong understanding of data governance, operational continuity, and risk management considerations during migration programmes.
• Desirable: experience leading data migration activities as part of legacy system decommissioning programmes within UK Government or wider public sector organisations.
• Desirable: experience working with large, complex legacy database estates where documentation is limited and SME availability is constrained.
• Desirable: experience defining minimum viable datasets and migration roadmaps.
• Desirable: ability to confidently engage with business, operational, policy, and technical stakeholder groups.

Responsibilities:

• Provide expert consultancy and leadership on data migration strategy and planning.
• Work directly with our teams to define the most appropriate approach for migrating data away from JSAPS.
• Assess and understand complex legacy application and database landscapes.
• Define migration approaches that maintain operational continuity and meet statutory and regulatory obligations.
• Develop and shape the overall migration roadmap, including key milestones, dependencies, and delivery considerations.
• Identify and mitigate programme risks associated with data migration and legacy system decommissioning.
• Support discovery activities to determine what data should be migrated, archived, or sourced from alternative systems.
• Engage with technical, operational, policy, and business stakeholders to gather requirements and validate migration assumptions.
• Provide assurance that proposed migration solutions are practical, achievable, and aligned to programme objectives.

Technologies:

• AWS
• Architect
• Cloud
• IBM
• Support
• Oracle
• DevOps
• Security

More:

We are a known organisation working on a 6-month rolling contract role that is inside IR35, paying £550 per day. The role is remote with occasional travel into our London office. We are seeking an experienced Application Consultant/Architect with AWS cloud migration and data migration expertise to support the JSAPS Data Migration Discovery within the DWP Legacy Tech Debt Programme. This programme focuses on identifying the minimum viable dataset required to safely decommission JSAPS, a critical legacy benefits platform supporting Jobseekers Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance, and will help reduce dependency on the platform by March 2029. You will work closely with IBM and DWP stakeholders across a highly complex legacy estate of 54 Oracle database instances.

last updated 31 week of 2026