Cloud Migration Architect - Northampton, UK

CompanyCapgemini

LocationLondon, England, United Kingdom

Posted At1/6/2026

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Description

Cloud Migration Architect

Location: Northampton, UK

Hybrid: 2-3 days working from office

Get The Future You Want!

Choosing Capgemini means choosing a company where you will be empowered to shape your career in the way you’d like, where you’ll be supported and inspired by a collaborative community of colleagues around the world, and where you’ll be able to reimagine what’s possible. Join us and help the world’s leading organizations unlock the value of technology and build a more sustainable, more inclusive world.

Your Role

We are seeking an experienced Cloud Platform Migration Architect to lead the architecture governance and execution of largescale migrations from on premprivate cloud to public cloud AWS Azure You will define landing zone architectures establish controls and guardrails design migration waves and oversee delivery across multiple portfolios Payments Retail Banking Cards Risk FinCrime The role requires deep expertise in cloud architecture security compliance data migration and resilient design within highly regulated environments

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Strategy Architecture:

Define cloud landing zone architecture networking identity security observability cost management for AWSAzure aligned with client standards

Create targetstate architectures and migration blueprints rehost replatform refactor application disposition and dependency maps

Establish architectural guardrails and patterns for multiaccountsubscription design shared services and platform services

Governance Risk Compliance:

Embed risk controls SOX PCIDSS GDPR UKEU regulatory expectations into architecture and delivery
Define IAMRBAC models secrets management key management AWS KMSAzure Key Vault encryption standards and data residency posture
Drive policyascode and DevSecOps practices precommit security checks SASTDAST container image scanning

Migration Planning Delivery:

Lead migration waves and release trains define cutover plans rollbackDR strategies and BCP alignment
Architect network connectivity Direct Connect ExpressRoute Transit Gateway Virtual WAN HubSpoke NATGateway and hybrid patterns
Oversee application assessment 6Rs dependency analysis and modernization microservices containers serverless

Platform Engineering tooling

Standardize Infrastructure as Code TerraformAnsible CICD GitHubGitLabAzure DevOps and golden imagesbase AMIs

Select and guide use of migration tools AWS Application Migration Service CloudEndure Azure Migrate Database Migration Service AWS DMSAzure DMS Snowball Data Box

Define observability stack CloudWatchAzure Monitor PrometheusGrafana Splunk ELK with SLOsSLAs and automated alerting

Data Integration:

Architect data migration RDSAuroraSQL MI CDCreplication schema conversion and nearzero downtime strategies
Govern API integration API GatewayApp Gateway Service Mesh Event streaming with KafkaKinesisEvent Hubs and messaging SQSSNSService Bus

Resilience Performance:

Design for HADR multiAZRegion Zone redundant services capacity planning performance tuning and cost optimization Savings PlansReserved Instances rightsizing FinOps governance

Stakeholder Management documentation:

Produce HLDLLD reference architectures decision records and governance packs present to Architecture Review Boards
Partner with CIOCTO platform teams InfoSec Compliance and ProgramProject Managers coach engineerig teams on patterns

Your Profile

12-15 years in architecture engineering with 8 years in cloud migration and platform architecture for regulated financial services

Deep expertise in AWS and or Azure

Compute Containers EC2 EKSECS VMSS AKS

Serverless Lambda Functions

Storage Data S3 EBS EFS Aurora RDS DMS Blob Managed Disks Files SQL MI DMS

Networking VPC TGW Private Link Direct Connect VNet Virtual WAN Private Link ExpressRoute

Security Identity IAM KMS Secrets Manager GuardDuty Security Hub Entra ID AAD Key Vault Defender for Cloud Policy

Observability Ops CloudWatch Config Systems Manager Azure Monitor Log Analytics Automation

Strong IaC Terraform preferred DevSecOps policyascode OPA ConftestAzure Policy and GitOps practices

Proven delivery of largescale migrations 200 workloads portfolio sequencing wave planning and cutovers

Experience with Payments Cards Retail Risk FinCrime domains understands data lineage KYCAML controls and auditability

Excellent stakeholder management governance communication and leadership across business technology

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than fifty countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their bus

iness needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market-leading capabilities in AI, cloud, and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.

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