Enterprise Architect (Lead Cloud Applications Migration Architect)

Act as the programme's Enterprise Architect, owning application, infrastructure and cloud, data, and business architecture as a single, coherent view, and working closely with the Security Lead so security architecture aligns with that same view.

Own the cloud target architecture and application architecture across Azure and AWS, ensuring designs are consistent, integrated, and traceable to customer requirements.

Own the technical outcome of the engagement, working alongside the Project Delivery Lead, who holds ultimate accountability for the programme overall.

Ensure every architecture decision and design artefact reflects the customer's business needs, policies, and procedures before it proceeds to build.

Own the end-to-end migration roadmap, ensuring assessment, planning, design, migration, testing, and transition activities remain aligned with programme objectives.

Provide technical leadership and strategic direction across all migration workstreams, ensuring consistent decision-making and architectural alignment.

Act as the final technical escalation point for architecture, migration, and implementation-related issues and decisions.

Ensure alignment between architecture strategy, programme priorities, and business outcomes throughout the migration lifecycle.

Own the passage of design and architecture documents for each migration wave or batch through the customer's SDLC approval gates, from submission to endorsement.

Ensure design refinements raised at each gate effectively address customer feedback before resubmission, avoiding repeat approval cycles.

Maintain a structured approach to architecture governance, ensuring artefacts are complete, accurate, and submitted on schedule.

Drive the closure of technical actions required to achieve approvals within agreed programme timelines.

Develop the process for capturing migration patterns and automation built during delivery, ensuring they are documented and available for reuse across later migration waves.

Continuously drive efficiencies in the SDLC process, delivery standardisation, and the use of AI and tooling, reducing rework and cycle time across the programme.

Review completed migration waves for reusable patterns and feed improvements back into the assessment, design, and delivery methodology.

Promote and establish migration standards and best practices across all delivery teams.

Own full alignment of the migration approach, including application of the 7Rs framework and tooling/AI usage, with the customer's business needs, policies, and procedures.

Propose AI and tooling capabilities to the customer and work closely with them through their approval process, drawing on the AI/Tools Architect within the team to prepare the technical case.

Govern the future-proofing of tool and platform choices, balancing innovation against the customer's risk appetite and standards.

Ensure migration planning, wave sequencing, and transformation activities remain aligned to technical and business objectives.

Evaluate and recommend migration accelerators, automation opportunities, and technology innovations that increase programme efficiency and reduce delivery risk.

Build and maintain close, trusted relationships with the customer's architects, architecture leadership, executive stakeholders, business leaders, and technical teams.

Serve as the senior day-to-day customer-facing representative for the migration programme.

Work directly and continuously with customer business and technology stakeholders to validate architecture direction and resolve technical concerns.

Lead customer workshops, migration planning sessions, executive briefings, technical governance reviews, and steering committee updates.

Represent Unisys architecture positions in customer forums, working sessions, and technical reviews with clarity and technical credibility.

Manage technical stakeholder expectations and maintain alignment between customer objectives, programme priorities, and delivery outcomes.

Proactively identify, communicate, and resolve customer concerns, risks, and dependencies that may affect migration success.

Work closely with customer programme leadership to establish migration priorities, sequencing, and roadmap decisions.

Own alignment with the customer's Architecture Review Board (ARB) and architecture function for every design and migration decision requiring endorsement.

Prepare and present architecture artefacts, options papers, migration strategies, and design decisions to the ARB.

Carry endorsed decisions back into delivery and ensure implementation aligns with approved architecture.

Maintain architecture governance discipline across the programme, including design authority, standards compliance, and decision traceability.

Ensure all solution decisions remain compliant with customer policies, standards, security requirements, and governance processes.

Provide overall leadership and direction to the migration programme team, including architects, migration specialists, engineers, analysts, and partner resources.

Act as team lead for all architects engaged in assessment, strategy, and design functions, including the AI/Tools Architect, setting technical direction and reviewing their output for quality, consistency, and customer alignment.

Establish team priorities, work allocation, and technical delivery objectives across migration waves and workstreams.

Lead technical risk, issue, and dependency management activities across the programme.

Drive collaboration across customer, partner, and Unisys teams to ensure successful programme execution.

Work closely with the Project Delivery Lead and Security Lead to ensure programme objectives, delivery priorities, and technical outcomes remain aligned.

Mentor and develop architects and technical specialists, building capability across application, infrastructure, cloud, data, and business architecture disciplines.

Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Lead the technical planning and execution of the migration programme, ensuring alignment between architecture strategy and delivery execution.

Develop and maintain migration roadmaps, migration wave plans, transition strategies, and technical delivery plans.

Identify programme risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies and work with customer and Unisys stakeholders to drive timely resolution.

Provide regular technical status reporting, risk assessments, and programme updates to customer and Unisys leadership.

Ensure migration decisions consider business value, cost, schedule, security, operational supportability, and long-term sustainability.

Support programme governance activities through technical oversight and leadership across all migration phases.

Ensure architecture, migration, and implementation teams operate cohesively towards agreed programme objectives and milestones.

Design with cost effectiveness in mind, evaluating architecture options against cost, performance, and sustainability trade-offs.

Provide architecture input into the customer's FinOps function.

Identify opportunities to reduce recurring cloud costs through right-sizing, architecture simplification, and consumption-based design choices.

Support business case development and migration planning activities with accurate cost modelling assumptions and architecture guidance.

Drive innovation in migration tooling, automation, and AI-assisted delivery methods.

Own the sustainability of the application, delivery, and support model, ensuring the target architecture remains supportable and extensible beyond go-live.

Evaluate emerging Azure and AWS capabilities for fit against the customer's target architecture and long-term technology direction.

Promote modern engineering practices that enhance migration quality, speed, and operational resilience.

Work closely with the Security Lead to ensure the migration approach and target architecture align with the customer's security requirements.

Ensure security architecture is reflected consistently throughout all design and migration activities.

Ensure security-related decisions are appropriately represented through SDLC, architecture, and governance reviews.

Work closely with technology and services partners to validate that proposed tooling, platforms, and managed capabilities meet architecture requirements.

Coordinate partner technical input into architecture design and review activities.

Ensure partner commitments are reflected accurately within migration planning, architecture decisions, and programme delivery activities.

Extensive experience as an Enterprise Architect or Lead Architect on large-scale application migration programmes involving Azure and AWS target clouds.

Demonstrated depth across application, infrastructure, cloud, data, security, and business architecture disciplines.

Proven experience delivering architecture solutions in high-security and regulated environments.

Proven experience acting as the lead technical authority and primary customer-facing representative on large-scale cloud transformation programmes.

Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary teams comprising architects, engineers, migration specialists, and partner organisations.

Proven ability to manage senior stakeholder relationships across customer, vendor, and internal delivery organisations.

Experience presenting programme status, risks, roadmap recommendations, and architecture strategy to executive and governance forums.

Track record of owning technical outcomes while working alongside a delivery lead responsible for overall programme governance and delivery accountability.

Deep knowledge of Azure and AWS target-state architecture patterns, migration frameworks, and 7Rs migration strategies.

Strong understanding of application architecture, cloud infrastructure architecture, data architecture, and security architecture principles.

Working knowledge of FinOps principles and cloud cost optimisation.

Expertise with AI-assisted migration and delivery tooling.

Understanding of Enterprise Architecture frameworks and Architecture Review Board governance processes.

Owns the technical outcome of the engagement and provides leadership across migration planning, architecture, governance, and technical delivery activities. Accountable for ensuring architecture decisions, migration strategies, and programme outcomes remain aligned with customer objectives and delivery commitments.

Builds trusted relationships across executive, programme, business, and technical stakeholder groups and acts as the primary technical ambassador for Unisys throughout the engagement, aligning migration and architecture outcomes to customer business objectives.

Provides technical and operational leadership across the migration programme, directing architects, migration specialists, engineers, and partners while maintaining accountability for the technical success of the overall engagement.

Maintains rigorous alignment with the customer's SDLC approval gates and Architecture Review Board processes, ensuring all decisions are endorsed, traceable, and compliant with customer standards.

Designs with cost effectiveness in mind and provides informed input into the customer's FinOps function and cloud cost optimisation activities.

Actively evaluates new tooling, automation, AI capabilities, and cloud innovations and applies them appropriately to support long-term sustainability and programme success.

Acts as a trusted advisor to both customer and Unisys stakeholders, influencing strategic decisions, driving alignment across business and technology priorities, and communicating architecture and migration strategies clearly at all organisational levels.

Success in this role will be measured through:

Design and architecture documents for each migration wave successfully clearing SDLC approval gates with minimal repeat cycles.

Architecture and migration decisions endorsed by the customer's ARB without material rework.

Delivery of migration waves and programme milestones in accordance with agreed roadmaps and schedules.

Effective management and resolution of technical risks, issues, and dependencies.

Full alignment of migration approaches, tooling, and AI initiatives with customer business needs and governance requirements.

Growth in reusable migration patterns, automation assets, and measurable SDLC efficiencies.

Quality and effectiveness of architecture input provided into customer FinOps activities.

Quality, consistency, and delivery performance across migration, architecture, assessment, and implementation teams.

High levels of customer confidence and satisfaction with Unisys technical leadership.

Strong stakeholder relationships across customer, partner, and internal delivery organisations.

Sustainability, supportability, and long-term success of the target architecture and migration outcomes beyond go-live.

NV1 Security Clearance (Mandatory).

TOGAF or equivalent recognized Enterprise Architecture certification.

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