Migration Solutions Architect

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A Migration Solution Architect is required to design migration solutions including: migration strategy, migration approach, select tooling, identify and estimate technical deliverables, produce/assure technical deliverables and advise on data migration best practice and specialist tooling.

Essential Skills and Experience:

*Extensive experience as a Solutions Architecture

*Data Migration experience of at least 4 data migration projects including both moving end-user data and moving data from a line of business application system/service into a replacement system/service

*Extensive experience of designing strategies, architectures, processes and software for bulk migration of data, acquired on at least 2 different projects each of > 6 months' duration

*Extensive experience of working in structured environments requiring adherence to appropriate technical standards (Note: "structured" should not be taken here as implying "Waterfall")

*Strong ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams, bring together people and views to inform decision making, and be willing to support work that isn't part of your core role

*Strong stakeholder engagement skills and the ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical people

*An understanding gained through actual project or programme experience of the fundamental elements of hosting and cloud technologies, including: design; planning; security and compliance; integration; provisioning; cloud storage; virtualisation

*An understanding gained through actual project or programme experience of infrastructure architecture (as relevant to the specification of environments for data migration), including networking

*An understanding gained through actual project or programme experience of impact analysis of solution options, and assessment and management of associated risks

*An understanding gained through actual project or programme experience of translating business requirements into workable solutions in line with technology and digital strategies.

*Experience of engaging peer-to-peer with Solutions Architects working for other organisations within a multi-supplier environment

*Experience of acting as part of the customer team, engaging Supplier Solutions Architects as the "intelligent customer" ensuring the customer can retain ownership of the design and approach

*Experience of 1 or more applications development projects using as many as possible of the following: Oracle XML SQL Server relational database experience AWS environments Talend Sharepoint

*Experience of delivering on technical projects for Government in recent years (2014 or later)

*Experience of delivering within large Programmes (upwards of c. 100 staff)

*Experience of setting technical standards for projects or programmes

*Experience of designing architectures and data models

*Data governance experience

*Data Quality management experience

Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take up to a minimum 10 weeks.

LA International Computer Consultants Ltd is an HMG Approved Consultancy and operates as an IT & Engineering Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency, depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, we welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds. Award Winning LA International Computer Consultants Ltd (Recruiter Awards for Excellence - Best IT, Best Public Sector & Gold Awards) and the most prestigious award that any business can receive The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2015.