Cloud Application Architect

Role Purpose • Provide company wide architectural governance and technical leadership for the enterprise program migrating on premise estate (RHEL, Oracle, Microsoft) to FCP. Define and enforce target reference architectures, migration patterns, security & compliance guardrails, and run governance through an Architecture Review Board (ARB) to ensure secure, cost effective, resilient, and compliant outcomes. Key Responsibilities • Establish, document, and own cloud target/reference architectures for FCP covering compute, networking, identity, storage, databases, middleware, integration, backup/DR, and observability. • Lead architectural governance: • Chair/run the Architecture Review Board (ARB). • Review, approve, or raise conditions for migration and design packages. • Maintain Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and a patterns/standards library. • Create migration strategy and application classification (lift and shift, replatform, refactor, replace, retire). • Define and validate data migration and cutover strategies for Oracle (and other DBs), including rollback and integrity verification plans. • Define security, compliance, and operational guardrails (IAM, encryption, network segmentation, logging, vulnerability management). • Produce runbooks, playbooks, and cutover templates; validate them during pilot migrations.