Senior Technical Design Authority for Cloud Modernisation

DataVita Limited; Blantyre; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

33 days annual leave

Life assurance 4x salary

Cycle to Work

EV salary sacrifice

Help@Hand remote health services

Job summary

DataVita Limited seeks a Principal Architect (Technical Design Authority) to own the technical direction across a two-phase hybrid private cloud transformation for a major public sector customer. You will lead architecture, governance, and migration planning while ensuring live services remain operational, partnering with the Programme Director.

You will guide engineering and delivery teams, embed infrastructure as code, and leverage AI-assisted tools to produce designs and documentation aligned

Qualifications

• Significant experience owning infrastructure architecture for a large customer estate in MSP/CSP or systems integrator.
• Experience leading large infrastructure programmes with live services.
• Strong knowledge across compute, storage, networking, backup and disaster recovery.

Responsibilities

• Own the target architecture and modernisation roadmap across compute, storage, networking, connectivity, backup, archive, disaster recovery and security.
• Lead migration waves, platform modernisation, decommissioning and cutovers with testing and rollback.
• Represent DataVita at architecture boards, design authorities, and assurance forums.

Skills

Infrastructure architecture

Public sector experience

TOGAF

Cloud platforms

AI-assisted tooling

Job description

DataVita Limited seeks a Principal Architect (Technical Design Authority) to own the technical direction across a two-phase hybrid private cloud transformation for a major public sector customer. You will lead architecture, governance, and migration planning while ensuring live services remain operational, partnering with the Programme Director.

You will guide engineering and delivery teams, embed infrastructure as code, and leverage AI-assisted tools to produce designs and documentation aligned