Data Platform & Migration Architect - Manchester (On-site)

Spencer Rose Ltd; Manchester; On-site; GBP 111,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Spencer Rose Ltd. urgently seeks a Solutions Architect with migration and data platform expertise for a Manchester-based banking client. This 6-12 month contract requires immediate start and on-site presence in Manchester.

You will define end-to-end migration architectures, govern designs, and collaborate with data engineers, software engineers and business teams to shape roadmaps and ensure delivery to enterprise standards.

Qualifications

• Solution architecture and system design.
• Cloud-native data platforms and migration experience.
• Security, governance and design assurance.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end migration architectures, patterns and technical solutions.
• Produce and govern solution designs, HLDs and architecture decision records.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, security and data governance standards.
• Define migration approaches for data ingestion, transformation, reconciliation and target consumption.
• Provide design oversight and technical guidance to Data Engineers and Software Engineers.
• Identify and manage architecture risks, technical debt and cross-platform dependencies.
• Support tooling and platform decisions across migration programmes.
• Collaborate with business, engineering and platform teams to shape migration roadmaps and delivery plans.
• Drive reusability, standardisation and continuous improvement across migration solutions.

Skills

Solution architecture

Cloud-native architectures

Data architecture and modelling

Data integration and transformation

Large-scale data migrations

Security governance design

Architecture documentation

Stakeholder management / communication

Tools

dbt

GCP

Job description

Spencer Rose Ltd. urgently seeks a Solutions Architect with migration and data platform expertise for a Manchester-based banking client. This 6-12 month contract requires immediate start and on-site presence in Manchester.

You will define end-to-end migration architectures, govern designs, and collaborate with data engineers, software engineers and business teams to shape roadmaps and ensure delivery to enterprise standards.