Lead Azure Migration Architect

Scrums.com; Johannesburg; Remote; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software company in Johannesburg is seeking a highly skilled Lead Azure Migration Architect to spearhead their enterprise-wide Azure migration initiative. The successful candidate will architect migration strategies and lead technical orchestration while ensuring compliance and governance standards are met. This role requires extensive expertise in Azure networking and governance, along with strong leadership skills to coordinate diverse engineering teams. Competitive benefits and opportunities for growth are offered.

Benefits

Discovery Medical Aid

Half-Day Birthday Leave

Family responsibility & Parental Benefits

Annual Foos-Fest

AI-Powered Hackathons

Year-End Celebrations

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in IT infrastructure, 5+ years in Azure architecture.
• Hands-on experience in Azure-to-Azure migration programs.
• Expert in Azure governance, networking, and RBAC inheritance.

Responsibilities

• Architect and design Azure subscription migration strategy.
• Lead application migrations with minimal downtime.
• Ensure compliance with governance standards.

Skills

Azure Networking

Infrastructure as Code

Automated migration orchestration

Governance & Compliance

Project Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related

Tools

Terraform

Azure CLI

PowerShell

Job description

Overview

Our Scrums.com Story

At Scrums.com (formerly SovTech), we believe the future of software lies in the talent, innovation, and creativity found on the African continent. For over a decade, we have been pioneering world-class software development for a global audience. We are the leading custom software development company from Africa that, like any great tech company, was founded in a garage. Scrums.com has now grown to more than 350 of the best AI-powered software engineering experts, building world-class platforms for growing businesses across four cities on three continents.

Looking ahead, we remain committed to growing Africa's tech ecosystems. Africa is home to the world's youngest population, with over 50% of Africans under the age of 25. Recent estimates indicate there are over 700,000 professional software developers across Africa today. That number is projected to double by 2025. We believe in the future of African tech talent and the impact it will have on scaling global companies.

Accelerating business growth with expert tech talent

Trusted by 400+ companies, Scrums.com helps businesses scale with our cloud-based engineering subscription platform, offering consistent, cost-effective AI-powered experts, teams, and reliable developer analytics.

Our Culture

Our culture is underpinned by 8 core values.

Earth’s leading software company from Africa- that's where we're going.

Why Join Us?

Be part of a dynamic, people-first team that’s showcasing and advancing Africa’s tech landscape on the global scale. At Scrums.com, we celebrate your individuality, empower your decision-making, and create meaningful experiences. Together, we’re driving innovation and building exceptional teams. Take a look at some of the highlights:

Embrace Our African Talent Footprint, Flexibility, and Autonomy 🌍

• At Scrums.com, we champion an empowered workplace where you shape the culture, influence decisions on tech stacks, and take charge of user testing—all while working from wherever you thrive best across our interconnected Guilds.
• Our distributed teams span South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe, and other parts of the continent, showcasing the diversity and brilliance of African talent.

The Scrums.com Vibes💙

• Annual Foos-Fest ⚽️: Showcase your skills at our Foosball Festival and take home quirky, sought-after awards.
• AI-Powered Hackathons 💻: Collaborate with your team to create innovative, market-ready products in just 24 hours—all while enjoying live music and family-friendly fun.
• Year-End Celebrations 🏞️: Reflect and connect at our unforgettable year-end events, a decade-old tradition we continue to cherish.
• Popcorn Fridays, Dev Chats, and Braais🍿: Bond with colleagues over insightful discussions and sizzling good vibes.
• Fluid Clubs🥾: Join like-minded peers in activities like hiking, running, and more to foster shared interests beyond work.
• Weekly All-Hands 🙌: Stay inspired and in the loop with our weekly All-Hands sessions that bring us together as one team.
• Explore Week 🐘: Our annual tradition encourages you to work from anywhere around the globe for one exciting week—freedom meets inspiration!

Rewards & Recognition 🎉

• Stacos (our company currency): Reward and recognise your peers with Stacos and exchange them for vouchers to celebrate accomplishments big and small.
• Commission Incentives : Unlock attractive rewards for successful business development leads and employee referrals.

Continued Career Growth & Support 🔑

• Internal AI Platforms: We empower our teams with access to both closed and open source LLMs that make work easier and empower your professional growth. We love AI!
• High-Performance Culture: Stay aligned and on track with OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) and structured annual reviews.
• Personalized Mentorship : Receive dedicated guidance from leadership and the Talent Success Team through one-on-one sessions and quarterly check-ins tailored to your career aspirations.

Our teams are powered by AI—Transforming How We Work 🤖

• Our teams embrace cutting-edge AI platforms, agents and tools, creating smarter workflows and accelerating career development with AI.
• OpenAI, Anthropic, Llama - we use them all so choose what suits you best!
• You don’t need your own licenses - we cover the costs and have our own internal AI platforms that gives you access to them all in a secure environment.

Outstanding Employee Benefits ➕

• Discovery Medical Aid: Prioritizing your health with the best care.
• Half-Day Birthday Leave: Celebrate your special day with an afternoon off!
• Family responsibility & Parental Benefits: Providing full support for a meaningful work-life balance.

*Please note: Benefits may vary depending on employment type

Join us and be part of a dynamic, supportive team that’s making waves across Africa.

We are seeking a Lead Azure Migration Architect to serve as the central technical authority for our enterprise-wide Azure subscription migration program. This strategic role involves architecting the complete migration strategy, orchestrating the automated cutover of diverse application workloads, and coordinating multiple engineering teams. The ideal candidate will take end-to-end ownership of the technical execution, ensuring a secure, efficient, and seamless transition of subscriptions to the new target landing zone.

Responsibilities

• Migration Architecture & Strategy: Design the end-to-end technical strategy for migrating Azure subscriptions, ensuring alignment with security, governance, and business objectives.

• Technical Orchestration: Lead and orchestrate the automated cutover of application workloads, leveraging Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines to ensure minimal downtime and risk.

• Network Design & Transition: Architect complex network migration plans, including the re-peering of spoke VNets to a new hub, management of Global VNet Peering, and precise traffic control using User-Defined Routes (UDRs) during phased cutovers.

• Governance & Compliance: Define and implement robust Azure governance standards for the new landing zone.

• Analyze and remediate the impact of reparenting subscriptions within the new Management Group structure, ensuring policy and RBAC inheritance is correctly applied.

• Automation & Tooling: Develop and maintain a suite of automation scripts using PowerShell or Azure CLI for pre-migration validation, execution, and post-migration health checks.

• Dependency Analysis: Conduct meticulous, holistic dependency analysis across all application service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) to identify and mitigate risks associated with network, identity, and service dependencies.

• Team Leadership & Coordination: Act as the primary technical liaison, coordinating efforts across networking, security, application, and platform engineering teams to ensure unified execution.

• Risk Management & Validation: Proactively identify technical risks and develop mitigation plans.

• Design and execute comprehensive testing and validation procedures to confirm the integrity and performance of migrated workloads.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

• 8+ years of experience in IT infrastructure, with at least 5+ years in a senior role focused on Azure architecture and implementation.

• Proven, hands-on experience leading at least one large-scale Azure-to-Azure subscription migration program.

• Azure Networking (SME Level) Deep, practical expertise in designing, implementing, and migrating between Azure hub-and-spoke architectures.

• Mastery of Global VNet Peering, transit routing, and managing the complexities of re-peering spokes to a new hub.

• Expert-level command of User-Defined Routes (UDRs) for controlling traffic flow during phased migrations.

• Proficiency in configuring and managing Azure Firewall, Network Security Groups (NSGs), and Application Security Groups (ASGs).

• Solid understanding of hybrid connectivity (ExpressRoute, VPN Gateways) and Azure Private DNS Zones.

• Azure Governance & Identity (Architect Level)

• A profound understanding of Azure Policy inheritance through Management Groups and the ability to remediate policy conflicts during subscription moves.

• Expertise in designing Management Group hierarchies and managing RBAC inheritance effectively.

• Strong foundational knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID, including service principals, managed identities, and their role in cross-subscription access.

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Automation Demonstrable, hands-on mastery of Terraform or Bicep for deploying and managing complex Azure environments.

• Advanced scripting skills in PowerShell or Azure CLI for automation, validation, and operational tasks.

• DevOps & Application Modernization

• Deep expertise in designing and implementing robust CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps Pipelines or GitHub Actions) to automate deployment, testing, and validation during the cutover process.

• Meticulous ability to map and understand complex application dependencies across IaaS, PaaS (VNet integration, Private Endpoints), and SaaS models.

• Experience using tools like Azure Migrate Application and Code Assessment to plan for refactoring or re-platforming applications.

• Familiarity with containerization concepts and services like Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Azure Container Apps (ACA).