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Cloud Migration Architect - Northampton, UK

Capgemini

Capgemini

IT
United Kingdom
Posted on Jan 7, 2026

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 business 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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