Senior Solution Architect — Migration & Design Assurance

Xcede; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Xcede in London seeks a Senior Solution Architect to lead migration governance for a major data-centre transformation. You will review partner designs, assess technical viability and ensure alignment with target platforms and architectural standards.

The role focuses on private cloud, virtualization and hybrid infrastructure, with frequent client-site work and travel. You will engage senior stakeholders, document findings and support architecture governance boards.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a Senior Solution Architect within large, complex enterprise environments.
• Proven experience reviewing and assuring solution designs delivered by systems integrators or third party delivery organisations.
• Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure, private cloud, virtualisation, networking, storage, databases, security and application integration.
• Experience on application migration, data centre transformation or infrastructure modernisation programmes.
• Solid grasp of application and database migration patterns, constraints and technical risks.
• Experience working within formal enterprise architecture governance, including review boards and design authorities.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication, with strong consulting, influencing and stakeholder engagement skills.
• The ability to work autonomously, exercise independent judgement and balance technical quality against delivery risk and cost.

Responsibilities

• Independently reviewing high level and detailed solution designs produced by delivery partners.
• Assessing designs for technical integrity, completeness, operational viability and migration feasibility.
• Validating solutions against functional and non functional requirements, including availability, resilience, performance, security, integration and supportability.
• Ensuring migration solutions align with the strategic technology platforms, architectural standards and target landscape.
• Evaluating application and database migration approaches (rehost, replatform, refactor, retain and retire), dependencies, licensing and legacy technology risks.
• Ensuring designs account for operational readiness, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery and support.
• Preparing assessments for architecture review boards and design authorities, and documenting findings, risks, decisions and exceptions.
• Constructively challenging delivery partners, providing pragmatic recommendations and escalating material risks through governance.
• Managing multiple concurrent reviews across several migration workstreams with minimal supervision.

Skills

Senior Solution Architect

Solution design review

Stakeholder engagement

Architectural governance

Migration & design assurance

Independent judgement

Job description

Xcede in London seeks a Senior Solution Architect to lead migration governance for a major data-centre transformation. You will review partner designs, assess technical viability and ensure alignment with target platforms and architectural standards.

The role focuses on private cloud, virtualization and hybrid infrastructure, with frequent client-site work and travel. You will engage senior stakeholders, document findings and support architecture governance boards.