Principal Cloud Migration Architect

£467.08 per day INSIDE IR35

Full Time

6 month contract

Remote

BACKGROUND

Our client is undertaking a Cloud Transition Programme (CTP) to move 80 digital services, currently hosted on 1,600 on-premises servers, to Azure and GCP, over a period of around 2 years.

The focus of this role is to work with our various products and platform teams to migrate services to the cloud. This will not be a simple rehosting. We anticipate that some services will be refactored for cloud, others will have elements of replatforming (e.g. shift to open-source technologies). This role will work alongside two others (Cloud Infrastructure Architect and Security Specialist)

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

As Principal Solutions Architect (Cloud Migration) you will:

* Lead on developing the migration approach for all product teams, maximising the opportunities to use open-source technologies and optimise the design to gain maximum benefit from the cloud.

* Develop reusable patterns and processes to enable new products to be rapidly built and deployed into the cloud in a safe and secure way.

* Lead on technical engagements within the CTP and between the CTP, appointed technical suppliers and various teams to enable that work progresses at-pace and resolve any issues as required.

* Develop work packages for suppliers to support the migration and associated developments as required.

* Ensuring services and products are aligned to industry best practice and regulatory and contractual requirements.

* Enable and promote the use of automation and self-service.

* Provide technical leadership to operations, infrastructure, and Fin Ops teams to optimise the performance and costs of IT infrastructure.

* Work on high-profile systems and solutions delivered at the National scale, in line with the organisation's commitment to agile delivery practices and a product-based approach.

* Be the escalation point for any technical programme issues and champion operational management across the community, working closely with other leaders.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will:

* Oversee the design and development of complex architectural solutions, ensuring technical integrity, consistency, scalability, performance and adherence to standards.

* Develop and maintain architectural cloud design roadmaps, optimise both cost value and performance efficiency.

* Develop and communicate cloud architecture principles and standards across the organisation.

* Support multiple teams, finding and using best practice and emerging technologies, to deliver cloud-based health solutions.

* Work with security, compliance and operational teams to meet regulatory requirements.

* Drive innovation and explore emerging technologies, to seek opportunities for digital transformation

* Champion best-practice architectural principles and patterns, ensuring our solutions are secure, scalable, resilient, maintainable, and interoperable. Lead governance, solving complex and high-risk issues or delivering architecture design.

* Define and lead the long-term architectural vision, strategy, and objectives.

* Ensure solutions are secure, scalable, resilient, maintainable, and interoperable.

* Participate in an on-call 24x7 management rota

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential Qualifications

* Cloud certification (e.g. Azure Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, AWS Certified Solutions Architect).

* TOGAF (TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Practitioner).

Desirable Qualifications:

* Professional Registration: Chartered IT Professional (CITP)

* FEDIP Leading Practitioner, or equivalent recognised Advanced Professional qualification.

* ITIL 4 Leader Digital and IT Strategy (ITIL 4 Strategic Leader Module)

If you are an exceptional candidate ready to make a significant impact, apply now and be part of our transformative journey