Cloud Solutions / Cloud Architect
(Data Centre Exit & Cloud Migration)
Contract Type:
Contract
Duration:
Initial 6 months (likely extension)
IR35 Status:
Outside IR35
Location:
UK (Hybrid / Remote)
Sector:
Financial Services – Wealth, Asset Management, Life & Pensions
Role Overview
We are supplying a senior Cloud Solutions / Cloud Architect
to lead the design and assurance of a large-scale data centre exit and cloud migration programme
for an end client operating within wealth management, asset management, or life & pensions.
The successful candidate must have prior experience delivering cloud and migration programmes within one or more of these regulated financial services domains.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead data centre exit strategy, including application discovery, dependency mapping, and migration planning
- Define target-state cloud architectures(IaaS / PaaS / hybrid where required)
- Assess cloud readiness:
- Landing zones
- Network connectivity
- Identity & access management
- Security controls
- Monitoring and logging
- Backup, DR, and resilience
- Decide and document migration approaches(re-host, re-platform, re-factor, retire)
- Ensure compliance with financial services regulations(security, data residency, resilience)
- Produce and own:
- High-level and low-level designs
- Migration roadmaps
- Architecture decision records
- Work closely with cloud engineers to ensure designs are buildable and aligned
- Act as the technical interface between:
- End client
- Hosting/cloud providers
- Internal delivery teams
- Support transition into BAU operations post-migration
Required Skills & Experience
- Proven experience delivering data centre exits and large-scale cloud migrations
- Strong hands-on architecture experience across AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Deep understanding of:
- Networking (VPC/VNet, firewalls, VPNs, private connectivity)
- Identity & access (IAM, RBAC, federated identity)
- Security architecture and controls
- High availability, resilience, and DR
- Experience working in regulated financial services environments
- Strong stakeholder management and documentation skills
- Comfortable operating in an SOW / outcome-based delivery model
Desirable
- Experience with complex legacy estates
- Exposure to DevOps / CI-CD patterns
- Knowledge of cloud cost optimisation and FinOps principles
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