This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Offer independent architectural oversight, technical assurance, and strategic guidance during the migration of legacy business-critical applications to AWS-hosted solutions.

• Evaluate modernization and migration strategies for feasibility, proven effectiveness, and alignment with long-term architectural goals.

• Examine cloud adoption strategies, application designs, and technology choices against operational, security, resilience, compliance, and business requirements.

• Identify architectural risks, dependencies, constraints, and design trade-offs, while recommending viable alternatives.

• Assess commercial aspects including software licensing, platform costs, tooling options, and third-party services.

• Generate recommendations, architecture assessments, and governance artifacts to support program decisions and investment cases.

• Analyze legacy application landscapes across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

• Provide guidance on remediation, refactoring, and modernization strategies for established Java-based platforms.

• Collaborate with technical and executive stakeholders.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience in Java software engineering and enterprise application architecture.

• Proven track record in delivering large-scale legacy modernization initiatives, including replatforming, refactoring, or cloud migration programs.

• Strong expertise in AWS, encompassing migration planning, architecture design, target-state definition, and cloud service selection.

• Experience with complex legacy technology environments and long-standing application portfolios.

• Understanding of software licensing, commercial modeling, and cost optimization factors within transformation programs.

• Capability to challenge assumptions, provide independent architectural insights, and communicate effectively with senior business and technical stakeholders.

• Experience working in multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments.