Infrastructure Architect
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Sanderson
Sanderson are seeking a seasoned Infrastructure Architect to lead a complex and high-impact on-premise to cloud migration for a major financial services organisation. With the end of a strategic data centre hosting contract approaching in Summer 2027, our client is accelerating plans to modernise their estate - migrating a large, mixed portfolio of applications to cloud or … replatforming, rewriting, SaaS replacement, or mainframe lift-and-shift. Analyse technical stacks and integrations (CICS COBOL, IMS, VSAM, QSAM, relational databases, flat file systems). Collaborate with application and infrastructure SMEs to define optimal target platforms and integration strategies. Provide architectural guidance on cloud-native solutions, including AWS Lambda, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, EFS, and containerised/serverless … high-level and detailed migration approaches, including cost estimation, sizing, and performance projections. Ensure alignment with cloud best practices and enterprise standards. Ideal Candidate Profile Proven experience as an Infrastructure Architect delivering on-prem to cloud and SaaS migrations in complex enterprise environments. Deep understanding of mainframe architectures, particularly CICS, COBOL, IMS, batch/online hybrid systems. Hands More ❯
Employment Type: Contractor
Rate: £700 - £800 per day
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