Mainframe Solutions Architect – Contract

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💻 Solutions Engineer

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Leighton

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1992

💼 Consulting

🤝 B2B

🏢 Enterprise

Consulting • B2B • Enterprise

Leighton is a UK-based software development and digital transformation company that accelerates digital capabilities for organisations. It builds software products and processes, offers 'Build as a service' delivery and embedded expert consultancy to augment client teams, and focuses on improving business processes, integrations, and customer experiences. Leighton is an AWS Advanced Tier Partner with over 100 AWS-certified professionals and targets enterprise and organisational customers across sectors.

📋 Description

• Provide independent architectural oversight, technical assurance, and strategic direction throughout migration of legacy business-critical applications into AWS-hosted solutions • Assess modernisation and migration approaches for practicality, proven effectiveness, and alignment with long-term architecture objectives • Review cloud adoption strategies, application designs, and technology selections against operational, security, resilience, compliance, and business requirements • Identify architectural risks, dependencies, constraints, and design trade-offs, recommending viable alternatives • Evaluate commercial considerations including software licensing, platform costs, tooling options, and third-party services • Produce recommendations, architecture assessments, and governance artefacts supporting programme decisions and investment cases • Analyse legacy application landscapes across hybrid and multi-cloud environments • Advise on remediation, refactoring, and modernisation strategies for established Java-based platforms • Engage with technical and executive stakeholders

🎯 Requirements

• Extensive experience in Java software engineering and enterprise application architecture • Delivery of large-scale legacy modernisation initiatives, including replatforming, refactoring, or cloud migration programmes • Strong AWS expertise, covering migration planning, architecture design, target-state definition, and cloud service selection • Experience working with complex legacy technology estates and long-lived application portfolios • Knowledge of software licensing, commercial modelling, and cost optimisation considerations within transformation programmes • Ability to challenge assumptions, provide independent architectural guidance, and communicate effectively with senior business and technical stakeholders • Experience operating within multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments

🏖️ Benefits

• A competitive salary dependent on experience • A contributory pension scheme • Private healthcare • 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays • Opportunity to buy or sell holiday • Flexible approach to working hours • Continuous personal development, career path and training

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