Azure Migration Architect & Technical Lead

IT WORLD LIMITED; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

IT WORLD LIMITED is seeking a senior Migration Architect to lead complex migrations from Azure Stack Hub and Edge to Azure and Azure Local. You will design, validate, and drive migrations across compute, storage, networking, and identity, coordinating with Microsoft teams and customer stakeholders.

You will run technical workshops, review runbooks, and guide engineers through edge/hybrid scenarios, ensuring readiness and repeatable automation.

Qualifications

• Experience in cloud migration architecture and leadership
• Strong understanding of Azure Stack Hub, Azure Stack Edge, and Azure
• Ability to assess customer environments and determine migration patterns
• Proven ability to run technical workshops and guide teams

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical authority for migrations from Azure Stack Hub and Azure Stack Edge to Azure and Azure Local
• Assess customer environments to determine optimal migration patterns, sequencing, dependencies, and readiness
• Provide input on design and migration approaches covering compute, storage, networking, identity, security, monitoring, backup, and DR
• Lead discovery workshops to identify risks, constraints, and dependencies
• Review and approve migration runbooks, rollback plans, and operational readiness
• Validate migration methodologies and ensure field applicability
• Identity and access management
• Evaluate environments for readiness and remediation needs
• Guide engineers through complex troubleshooting in hybrid and edge environments
• Review and validate scripts, automation frameworks, and tooling
• Troubleshoot PowerShell migration workflows and prerequisites
• Ensure automation is repeatable, scalable, and production-ready
• Act as escalation point for complex issues
• Coordinate with Microsoft teams on defects and feature gaps
• Lead root cause analyses for failed migrations
• Develop mitigation and recovery plans for high-risk scenarios
• Own technical migration guidance and documentation
• Review Microsoft Learn content for accuracy
• Develop migration decision trees and troubleshooting guides
• Create reusable engineering artifacts to improve consistency
• Lead technical discussions with strategic customers
• Present migration architecture recommendations and roadmaps
• Communicate risks and remediation options
• Conduct executive-level briefings
• Support customer escalations and critical events
• Partner with Microsoft account teams, CSA, Product Engineering, and Support

Job description

IT WORLD LIMITED is seeking a senior Migration Architect to lead complex migrations from Azure Stack Hub and Edge to Azure and Azure Local. You will design, validate, and drive migrations across compute, storage, networking, and identity, coordinating with Microsoft teams and customer stakeholders.

You will run technical workshops, review runbooks, and guide engineers through edge/hybrid scenarios, ensuring readiness and repeatable automation.