Cloud Application Architect
HEXAWARE · United Kingdom
IT Services and IT Consulting · 10,001+ employees
About the role
Provide company-wide architectural governance and technical leadership for migrating on-premise estates to FCP. Define target reference architectures, migration patterns, and security guardrails while leading the Architecture Review Board.
What they look for
Requirements
The candidate must be able to establish cloud target architectures and manage complex data migration strategies for Oracle and other databases. Experience in defining operational guardrails and producing technical runbooks for large-scale migrations is required.
Full description
Role Purpose • Provide company wide architectural governance and technical leadership for the enterprise program migrating on premise estate (RHEL, Oracle, Microsoft) to FCP. Define and enforce target reference architectures, migration patterns, security & compliance guardrails, and run governance through an Architecture Review Board (ARB) to ensure secure, cost effective, resilient, and compliant outcomes. Key Responsibilities • Establish, document, and own cloud target/reference architectures for FCP covering compute, networking, identity, storage, databases, middleware, integration, backup/DR, and observability. • Lead architectural governance: • Chair/run the Architecture Review Board (ARB). • Review, approve, or raise conditions for migration and design packages. • Maintain Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and a patterns/standards library. • Create migration strategy and application classification (lift and shift, replatform, refactor, replace, retire). • Define and validate data migration and cutover strategies for Oracle (and other DBs), including rollback and integrity verification plans. • Define security, compliance, and operational guardrails (IAM, encryption, network segmentation, logging, vulnerability management). • Produce runbooks, playbooks, and cutover templates; validate them during pilot migrations.
