Up to £550 per day (OUTSIDE IR35)
Fully Remote in the UK
6 months (Extension highly likely)
Lead a major Azure-to-AWS transformation within a highly regulated financial services environment.
We're looking for a Senior Solutions Architect to own the end-to-end architecture and delivery of a large-scale cloud migration and modernisation programme. This is a customer-facing role requiring strong technical leadership, stakeholder engagement, and deep AWS migration expertise.
Lead architecture for a complex Azure-to-AWS migration programme
Drive application and infrastructure modernisation initiatives
Guide senior stakeholders on cloud transformation strategy
Produce high and low-level designs, migration plans, and technical governance
Act as the senior technical authority throughout delivery
Proven experience leading Azure to AWS migrations across:
Infrastructure (Windows Servers, Windows Containers)
Databases (SQL Server)
Legacy .NET application estates
Strong hands-on experience with:
AWS MAP (Migration Acceleration Programme)
Amazon EKS
Windows-to-Linux modernisation
SQL Server to PostgreSQL migrations
AWS RDS PostgreSQL
Ability to define migration strategies, target architectures, and modernisation roadmaps.
Excellent customer-facing communication and executive stakeholder presentation skills.
Experience within Mortgage, Banking, or Financial Services
Understanding of regulatory, security, and data governance requirements in highly regulated environments
If you've successfully delivered enterprise-scale AWS migration and modernisation programmes and enjoy working directly with customers, we'd love to hear from you.
