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