Azure Migration Consultant

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

Migration Architecture & Technical Leadership

• Serve as the technical authority for migrations from Azure Stack Hub (ASH) and Azure Stack Edge (ASE) to Azure and Azure Local.
• Assess customer environments and determine optimal migration patterns, sequencing, dependencies, and technical readiness.
• Provide inputs to design, team migration approaches covering compute, storage, networking, identity, security, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery considerations.
• Lead technical discovery workshops to identify migration risks, unsupported configurations, hardware constraints, and integration dependencies.
• Review and seek approval for migration runbooks, engineering procedures, rollback strategies, and operational readiness plans.
• Validate migration methodologies developed by Microsoft engineering teams and ensure field applicability.
• Identity and access management
• Evaluate customer environments for migration readiness and recommend remediation activities.
• Guide engineers through complex troubleshooting scenarios involving hybrid infrastructure and edge environments.

Migration Automation & Tool Validation

• Review and validate migration scripts, automation frameworks, and deployment tooling produced by engineering teams.
• Troubleshoot PowerShell-based migration workflows and identify execution failures.
• Validate migration prerequisites, dependency checks, and operational controls.
• Ensure migration automation is repeatable, scalable, and production-ready.
• Act as Tier-3/Tier-4 technical escalation point for complex migration issues.
• Coordinate directly with Microsoft Product Engineering teams on defects, product limitations, and feature gaps.
• Lead root cause analysis activities for failed or delayed migrations.
• Develop mitigation and recovery plans for high-risk migration scenarios.
• Own technical migration guidance and operational documentation.
• Review Microsoft Learn content for technical accuracy.
• Develop migration decision trees, troubleshooting guides, and technical best practices.
• Create reusable engineering artifacts to improve migration consistency across customers.
• Lead technical discussions with strategic and high-touch customers.
• Present migration architecture recommendations and technical roadmaps.
• Communicate migration risks, technical blockers, and remediation options.
• Conduct executive-level technical briefings.
• Support customer escalations and critical migration events.
• Partner with Microsoft Account Teams, CSA teams, Product Engineering, and Support organizations.