Solutions Architect

Spencer Rose are urgently seeking a Solutions Architect with experience in Migration & Data Platforms, to work for our banking client in Manchester. 6-12 month contract, Immediate start

Start: ASAP
Location: Manchester - must be on site 2 days a week
Rate: £(Apply online only)pd Inside IR35
Duration: 6-12 months

The role:

Define and govern the end-to-end architecture for large-scale data migration solutions. Ensure migration designs align with enterprise standards, target-state platforms and strategic technology direction, whilst enabling successful delivery across Migration Factory, Data Engineering and business teams.

Key Responsibilities

* Define end-to-end migration architectures, patterns and technical solutions.

* Produce and govern solution designs, HLDs and architecture decision records.

* Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, security and data governance standards.

* Define migration approaches for data ingestion, transformation, reconciliation and target consumption.

* Provide design oversight and technical guidance to Data Engineers and Software Engineers.

* Identify and manage architecture risks, technical debt and cross-platform dependencies.

* Support tooling and platform decisions across migration programmes.

* Collaborate with business, engineering and platform teams to shape migration roadmaps and delivery plans.

* Drive reusability, standardisation and continuous improvement across migration solutions.

Essential

* Solution architecture and system design

* Cloud-native architectures

* Data architecture and modelling

* Data integration and transformation patterns

* Large-scale data migration programmes

* Security, governance and design assurance

* Architecture documentation and stakeholder management

* Strong communication and influencing skills

Desirable

* Banking or financial services experience

* Foundation Data Product (FDP) architectures

* dbt and modern data platform tooling

* Event-driven and distributed architectures

* GCP and cloud data services

* Data quality, reconciliation and migration controls

Interviews are taking place next week, so if available and interested APPLY NOW
Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed