Day Rate: Market Rate

Job Description:

Harvey Nash's public sector client is recruiting for an AWS Solutions Architect. They are embarking on a new Cloud IT project migrating our key applications over to AWS Cloud Technologies.

Main Duties:

You will work within an architecture team to:

• analyse and assess the existing on-premises IT estate
• define an alternative hosting strategy within Amazon Web Services
• develop a roadmap for migration of core services to cloud
• define a migration strategy
• undertake structured analysis of functional issues and identify alternative architecture
• identify improvements, enhancements, risks and issues
• look for opportunities to define reusable components and patterns
• communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

This role is focused on the strategic cloud migration work within the programme:

• Work directly with stakeholders to understand the problem and identify opportunities and risks associated with migrating from on-premise to Amazon Web Services.
• Collect and define technical requirements to enable cloud migration to support business process and integrations with Back Office on-premise systems.
• Identify and advise on application architecture with supporting rationale/evidence.
• Ensure all architecture is secure by design and adheres to best practice.
• Work alongside in house application developers, engineers, designers and testers to ensure optimal solution and implementations

Essential Skills & Experience:

• At least 3 years' experience in a senior cloud architecture role with extensive experience defining secure and robust architecture.
• Strong written communication and presentation skills, with the ability to present ideas clearly and at short notice to a mix of technical and business audiences.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, comfortable dealing with challenge and ambiguity.
• Experience assessing and documenting the existing functional landscape for both commercial off the shelf products and in-house developed Java applications hosted on-premise.
• Identify functional improvements in order to prepare the applications to be migrated to Amazon Web Services.
• Experience analysing and identifying improvements to the application data architecture.
• Identify alternative application architecture for existing applications within Amazon Web Services.
• Identify and define AWS migration strategies for each application.
• Understanding of SOAP and REST APIs, API Gateways & API Management.
• In-dept experience identifying and defining security controls within AWS.
• Identify roles, operating model and service management policy and procedures.

Technologies

• Amazon Web Services architecture.
• Understanding of Java application development and hosting strategies within Amazon Web Services.
• Understanding of modern software development frameworks.
• Hosting commercial off the shelf and in-house developed (Java) applications in AWS.
• Application containerisation experience.
• Understanding of modern operating systems, virtualisation technologies, data storage and management systems

Desirable Skills:

• Proficiency in Terraform to deliver infrastructure as code.
• Understand CI/CD processes using AWS developer tools such as CodeBuild, CodeDeploy and CodePipeline.
• Oracle DB technology and alternative hosting strategies.
• Understanding of Public sector challenges and constraints.
• Understanding of modern software development frameworks.
• Understanding of testing approach and tooling.
• Understanding of security architecture and security controls within Amazon Web Services.

This role has been deemed Outside IR35 by the client. Applicants must hold, or be happy to apply for, a valid Basic Disclosure Scotland. Please click the link to apply.