Head of Migrations – Cloud & Data Centre Transformation

Jackalope Digital LLC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Share options schemes

25 days annual leave

Life Assurance

Pension auto-enrolment

Job summary

Cloudscaler is seeking a Head of Migrations to lead all migration work across the business from MAP engagements to data centre exits, building repeatable methodologies and delivery assets. Based in London with travel to customer sites up to 3 days per week, you will own the migration pipeline, manage P&L for the practice, and recruit a high-performance team as the offering scales.

You will work with CTOs and infrastructure leads, drive AI-enabled discovery and reporting, and shape the final

Qualifications

• Proven leadership of large-scale AWS migration programmes, with real accountability for outcomes.
• Working knowledge of AWS MAP, including funding, credits and the evidencing discipline the programme demands.
• Experience of data centre exit and landing zone migration, not just application moves.
• The ability to build a TCO model and a migration business case that convinces both an architect and a board.
• Commercial fluency: revenue, gross profit, utilisation and pipeline are part of the job, not someone else's problem.
• Credibility with senior client stakeholders and a track record of building trust through delivery.
• Experience hiring and leading delivery teams, and setting the standard for quality.
• Comfort working without an established playbook. You will write it.
• Taking an organisation through AWS competency attainment.
• Regulated sector experience: financial services, public sector, utilities, healthcare or defence.
• Modernisation delivery, including containerisation and server-less refactoring.
• P&L ownership for a practice or business unit.
• Productising delivery assets into reusable, versioned intellectual property.
• Hands-on use of AI tooling to accelerate discovery, assessment and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Own Cloudscaler's MAP relationship, making sure engagements are registered, funded and tracked through Assess, Mobilise and Migrate, with funding claims that are accurate, evidenced and defensible.
• Lead data centre exit programmes end to end, from estate discovery and dependency mapping through to decommissioning and contract exit.
• Own our end-to-end migration methodology: portfolio discovery, application assessment using the 7 Rs, wave planning, execution and post-migration validation.
• Own the migration assessment tooling as subject-matter expert, defining what it captures, how findings map to migration patterns, and how a business case is built from the output.
• Support the commercial team on proposals, workshops and MAP funding conversations, and build trusted adviser relationships with client CTOs and infrastructure leads.
• Deliver against a six-month revenue plan, report monthly KPIs from month one, and build the investment case for a ring fenced team.
• Recruit, lead and develop that team once the case is approved, working to a team gross profit model.
• Drive AI and automation across the migration lifecycle to cut manual effort and improve the accuracy of migration business cases.
• Represent Cloudscaler publicly through speaking, blogs, white papers and partnership activity with AWS.

Skills

Leadership

AWS MAP knowledge

Data centre exits

Migration methodology

Commercial fluency

Stakeholder management

Team building

AI tooling

Public speaking

Job description

Cloudscaler is seeking a Head of Migrations to lead all migration work across the business from MAP engagements to data centre exits, building repeatable methodologies and delivery assets. Based in London with travel to customer sites up to 3 days per week, you will own the migration pipeline, manage P&L for the practice, and recruit a high-performance team as the offering scales.

You will work with CTOs and infrastructure leads, drive AI-enabled discovery and reporting, and shape the final