Skills needed

Below are some of the skills you will need to implement your migration program.

1. Program & Governance

• Project/Program Management

  • PMO / PRINCE2 / PMI skills to run a complex migration.

  • Stakeholder engagement, risk management, stage-gates.

• Business Analysis

  • Requirements gathering, integration mapping, documenting as-is vs to-be.

  • Process analysis for impacted business units.

• FinOps & Cost Management

  • Azure Cost Management, budgeting, chargeback, reservations. (Turbo360 can help you here)

  • Cloud economics vs on-prem TCO analysis.

2. Architecture & Design

• Enterprise Architect

  • Define target integration architecture.

  • Map BizTalk artifacts → Azure services.

  • Ensure scalability, resilience, and compliance.

• Solution/Integration Architect

  • Deep knowledge of BizTalk and Azure Integration Services.

  • Knows equivalents (e.g., Orchestration → Logic Apps, MQ Adapter → Service Bus).

• Security Architect

  • Azure RBAC, Private Endpoints, Key Vault, certificates.

  • Compliance frameworks (GDPR, ISO 27001, SOC2).

3. Technical Delivery

• BizTalk Developers/Administrators

  • Knowledge of existing orchestrations, pipelines, schemas.

  • Can document and explain legacy integrations.

• Azure Integration Developers

  • Logic Apps (Consumption/Standard), API Management, Service Bus, Event Grid.

  • Azure Functions, Data Factory for batch scenarios.

  • REST, SOAP, EDI/B2B patterns.

• Azure DevOps / CI-CD Engineers

  • IaC (Bicep, Terraform, ARM).

  • Build/release pipelines, testing automation.

• Monitoring & Ops Engineers

  • App Insights, Log Analytics, KQL.

  • Operations playbooks, alerting, incident management.

  • Turbo360 can help you here too

4. Data & Analytics

• Data Integration Specialists

  • Handling message formats, transformations (XML, JSON, EDI, Flat File).

  • Data mapping, cleansing, governance.

• Reporting / BI (Optional but valuable)

  • Reporting on migration progress, performance KPIs, and cost metrics.

5. Change & Adoption

• Training & Knowledge Transfer

  • Internal CoE (Center of Excellence) setup for Azure Integration.

  • Upskilling BizTalk engineers → Azure Integration engineers.

• Change Management / Communications

  • Ensuring business units understand the impact.

  • Driving adoption of new workflows and integrations.