Altrapoint
Solutions Architect (Data Centre Migration)
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⚡ SENIOR SOLUTION ARCHITECT – DATA CENTRE SEPARATION & MIGRATION ⚡
📍 Location: Hybrid – Edinburgh (1 day/week on-site, with expanded geographic flexibility across Northern England & the Midlands)
💼 Contract Type: Contract inside IR35 - £700 per day
📅 Start Date: Target First Week of October 2026
🎯 The Mission
A major UK financial services and wealth management titan are together executing a massive corporate divestiture. Key data centre facilities are being sold off, triggering a complete, multi-year infrastructure disentanglement.
We are seeking a high-calibre Senior Solution Architect to own the physical separation, define the target-state hosting environments, and lead multi-workload migration strategies across critical financial platforms.
🛠️ Key Responsibilities
- Separation Architecture: Lead physical and logical data centre separation (compute, storage, network, and shared services) across designated landing zones.
- Target-State Design: Architect next-generation hosting platforms leveraging hybrid cloud, private cloud, and consumption-based models (e.g. HPE GreenLake).
- Workload Migration: Formulate robust migration patterns and cutover strategies using enterprise tooling such as Zerto and VMware HCX.
- Boundary & TSA Management: Navigate Transitional Service Agreement (TSA) parameters to enforce strict network segregation as access is cut off.
- Artefact Delivery: Produce high-impact High-Level Designs (HLDs), transition-state patterns, network topologies, and operational migration runbooks.
- Governance & Leadership: Secure architectural approvals, refine disentanglement playbooks, and steer cross-functional delivery teams.
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🧠 Required Skills & Experience
- Proven Track Record: Senior-level architecture experience on complex enterprise infrastructure transformations.
- Carve-Out Expertise: Demonstrable experience in data centre migrations, corporate carve-outs, M&A disentanglements, or TSA transitions.
- Tech Stack Master: Deep architectural domain knowledge across compute, enterprise storage, network security, and virtualisation.
- Modern Tooling: Direct familiarity with HPE GreenLake (or equivalent hyperconverged/consumption models) and Zerto (or similar replication platforms).
- Regulated Sector Context: Background in UK Financial Services, Pensions, Wealth, or Asset Management highly preferred.
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