Solution Architect
2 days ago
Guildford
\n Role Purpose \n\n • Provide company-wide architectural governance and technical leadership for the enterprise program migrating on-premise estate (RHEL, Oracle, Microsoft) to FCP. Define and enforce target reference architectures, migration patterns, security & compliance guardrails, and run governance through an Architecture Review Board (ARB) to ensure secure, cost-effective, resilient, and compliant outcomes.\n\n Key Responsibilities \n\n • Establish, document, and own cloud target/reference architectures for FCP covering compute, networking, identity, storage, databases, Middleware, integration, backup/DR, and observability.\n, • Lead architectural governance: \n \n, • Chair/run the Architecture Review Board (ARB).\n, • Review, approve, or raise conditions for migration and design packages.\n, • Maintain Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and a patterns/standards library.\n \n, • Create migration strategy and application classification (lift-and-shift, replatform, refactor, replace, retire).\n, • Define and validate data migration and cutover strategies for Oracle (and other DBs), including rollback and integrity verification plans.\n, • Define security, compliance, and operational guardrails (IAM, encryption, network segmentation, logging, vulnerability management).\n, • Produce runbooks, playbooks, and cutover templates; validate them during pilot migrations.\n, • Define non-functional requirements (performance, HA, RTO/RPO) and validate designs against them.\n, • Drive cost governance: tagging policy, cost models, budget forecasts, and ongoing optimization.\n, • Coordinate with App owners, DBAs, Security, Compliance, DevOps, Infra, and PMO to ensure alignment and readiness.\n, • Mentor platform and application teams; enable knowledge transfer and create training materials.\n, • Run proofs-of-concept (PoCs) and provide hands-on support for complex migrations or performance tuning.\n, • Conduct post-migration reviews, capture lessons learned, and iterate architecture/designs.\n\n Required Qualifications & Skills \n\n • Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or equivalent experience.\n, • Experience: 8+ years IT experience with at least 4+ years in architecting and leading enterprise on-prem - cloud migrations.\n, • Technical expertise: \n \n, • Strong Linux (RHEL) systems knowledge and experience with configuration management/automation.\n, • Deep Oracle database migration experience (replication, logical/physical migration tools, schema conversion, performance tuning).\n, • Microsoft stack experience (Windows Server, AD, .NET, SQL Server) and migration approaches.\n, • Solid cloud architecture knowledge (IaaS, PaaS, managed DBs, networking, identity).\n, • Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) experience preferred.\n, • Security and compliance controls implementation experience for cloud migrations.\n, • Observability, monitoring, and incident management best practices.\n \n, • Soft skills: \n \n, • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences.\n, • Experience running Architecture Review Boards and writing ADRs.\n, • Proven ability to produce clear architecture artifacts, runbooks, and migration playbooks.\n \n\n Preferred/Nice-to-have \n\n • TOGAF or enterprise architecture certification.\n, • Experience with large-scale Oracle consolidation/migration projects.\n, • Experience with cost governance tools and cloud financial management (FinOps).\n, • Experience with regulated environments (PCI, GDPR, SOX, HIPAA) if applicable.\n