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