About this role
Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements
- Strong background as a Solution Architect, Technical Architect, or Migration Architect delivering large-scale hosting or cloud migrations.
- Proven experience migrating live services, rather than only designing greenfield or future-state solutions.
- Strong technical knowledge across applications, infrastructure, databases, middleware, networking, and service integration.
- Experience with AWS, managed hosting, rehosting or relocation, and VM-led migrations.
- Strong understanding of operational readiness, security, resilience, monitoring, testing, and rollback.
- Experience working across complex multi-supplier environments and architectural governance.
- Comfortable navigating mixed legacy technology stacks, complex dependencies, and large-scale migration environments.
- SC eligible; BPSS clearance required to start.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end technical migration approach for assigned services.
- Turn discovery outputs and established migration patterns into executable technical plans.
- Lead migrations into AWS and managed hosting environments.
- Manage complex upstream and downstream dependencies, integrations, and connectivity.
- Coordinate network routes, firewalls, DNS, access, identity, and security.
- Provide technical leadership through migration rehearsals, testing, cutover, rollback, and early-life support.
- Maintain service continuity across complex legacy estates.
Technologies
- AWS
- Architect
- Cloud
- COBOL
- Support
- Java
- Linux
- Network
- Oracle
- Security
- Windows
- ASP.NET
More
We are seeking a Solution Architect for a major legacy-to-cloud migration programme for a Central Government client. This is a hands-on migration architecture role focused on safely moving complex live services into AWS and managed hosting environments, from discovery through migration, testing, cutover, and early-life support. The work spans applications, infrastructure, databases, middleware, networks, and integrations. The contract is initially six months, with extensions possible, at £650 per day inside IR35. The role is based in Telford, with two days onsite per month. Relevant technology exposure includes Java, .NET, Oracle, WebLogic, IIS, Windows, Linux, AIX, Solaris, COBOL, GEN, mainframe, and AWS.
last updated 44 week of 2026