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Migration Architect
Job Description
Salary: £49,000 - 66,000 per year
Requirements:- Proven track record driving AWS migration waves from design through execution.
- Strong AWS infrastructure experience, including VPC design, EC2, networking, and storage services.
- Strong application experience, including understanding of application dependencies and integration points within AWS environments.
- Hands-on discovery experience is essential.
- Experience working across multiple migration waves in a programme setting.
- Working knowledge of AWS migration tooling, including MGN, DMS, Application Discovery Service, and Migration Hub.
- AWS certification is desirable, with Solutions Architect Associate or Professional preferred.
- Experience working within large-scale transformation or migration programmes is desirable.
- Familiarity with the AWS Well-Architected Framework is desirable.
- Familiarity with governance frameworks and change processes, including RFCs and RAID logs, is desirable.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to communicate technical detail clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Comfortable working under pressure across multiple concurrent workstreams.
- Strong documentation skills.
- Lead the end-to-end design of AWS migration solutions, covering both infrastructure and application layers.
- Run discovery exercises using tools such as AWS Application Discovery Service or AWS Migration Hub to assess current-state environments, dependencies, and risks ahead of migration.
- Translate discovery findings into AWS migration designs and wave plans, selecting appropriate migration strategies such as rehost, replatform, and refactor for each workload.
- Design target-state architectures on AWS covering compute, storage, networking, and security.
- Work alongside delivery and project managers to align the technical approach with programme timelines.
- Support execution of migration waves using tools such as AWS MGN, DMS, or Application Migration Service, resolving technical issues as they arise.
- Produce architecture documentation and design artefacts to support governance and sign-off.
- Liaise with security, change, and transition teams to ensure migration designs meet organisational and AWS Well-Architected requirements.
- AWS
- Architect
- DMS
- EC2
- Support
- Oracle
- OutSystems
- Security
- Snowflake
- Cloud
- Embedded
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last updated 34 week of 2026
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£90,000
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