Exited two ageing data centres and migrated the regulated payments estate to AWS, with digital operational resilience (DORA) and audit readiness as the driver, not cost alone. Run as a sequence of binding stage gates so a regulator could inspect it end to end. Institution and figures altered.
REDACTED All cases are reconstructed and sanitized. The documents are freshly authored, not the client's originals: sensitive data has been altered and the most delicate parts removed for confidentiality. Client names, buyers, individuals and exact figures are redacted or changed. The structure, governance, workflow and results reflect real work.
Delivery board
The programme mapped across eleven board pages, from current state to measured outcome. The stage-gate governance page is the centre of gravity.
Programme documents
The document set that ran the programme, from mandate to benefits realization. Open any document to read it in full.
Document owner: Program Director · Status: Approved at G0 · Classification: Internal (sanitized for portfolio)
Sanitized artifact. Client shown as Meridian Pay S.A. [REDACTED]. Names and exact figures redacted.
1. Purpose
This charter authorizes the program to migrate the regulated payments estate of [REDACTED] from two on-premise data centres to Amazon Web Services, and to establish the operating model that runs it afterwards. It defines the mandate, scope, governance authority, and the criteria by which success is judged.
2. Background and rationale
[REDACTED] operates card issuing, acquiring and account services under an e-money licence. The estate runs in two co-located data centres on a five-year-old hardware refresh nearing end of support. Three forces made migration the lower-risk path:
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