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