AWS Solutions Architect

AWS Solution Architect

Hybrid Working - Edinburgh - 1 day a week on site.

Public Sector

Lorien's Public Sector client is looking for an AWS Solution Architect to join their expanding team on a new Migration Project.

This role is Hybrid with 1 day a week on site in Edinburgh.

This role is an initial 6month contract for potential for extension.

This role will fall Outside IR35.

What you will do

As an AWS Solution Architect, you will be joining on a new Migration Project of our Key Applications over to AWS Cloud Technologies. The role is focused on the strategic cloud migration.

• Work within an architecture team to:
  • Analyse and assess the existing on-premises it
  • 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.

• 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 SaaS application developers, engineers, designers and testers to ensure optimal solution and implementations.
• Provide subject matter expertise.

• Subject matter expertise.

The skills you will need:

• At least 3 years' experience in an 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.

Technical Skills Needed

• 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.

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We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy or maternity or age