A large international organization with complex, business-critical technology operations across multiple regions is seeking a Lead Solution Architect to define its future datacenter technology stack, target architecture, and operating model. The successful candidate will lead a vendor-neutral assessment covering datacenter, cloud, infrastructure, resilience, lifecycle, and operational requirements.
Responsibilities:
- Assess the current datacenter environment, infrastructure landscape, technology dependencies, and existing hardware lifecycle constraints.
- Consolidate business, technical, operational, security, and resilience requirements into clear, vendor-neutral architecture principles.
- Define target architecture options across compute, storage, networking, virtualization, cloud, backup, disaster recovery, automation, monitoring, and platform management.
- Evaluate technology solutions and vendors objectively, developing comparison matrices that consider feasibility, complexity, risk, compatibility, vendor lock-in, and strategic fit.
- Define a high-level migration roadmap, including dependencies, sequencing, operational impacts, key risks, and effort assumptions.
- Present evidence-based architecture recommendations to senior stakeholders and provide technical inputs for sizing, licensing, lifecycle, support, BOM, and TCO evaluations.
Qualifications and Skills:
- Extensive experience in infrastructure, datacenter, cloud, or enterprise architecture, ideally with at least 10 years of relevant professional experience.
- Strong end-to-end knowledge of compute, storage, networking, virtualization, VDI, backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, automation, and infrastructure management platforms.
- Solid architecture experience across on-premise, hybrid-cloud, and public-cloud environments, with strong expertise in Microsoft Azure.
- Proven ability to translate complex requirements into architecture principles, technology options, target architectures, decision criteria, and defensible recommendations.
- Experience leading complex datacenter or cloud transformation assessments and defining high-level migration strategies, dependencies, risks, and lifecycle considerations.
- Excellent stakeholder-management and written communication skills, with the ability to advise senior leadership, facilitate technical workshops, and produce executive-level architecture documentation in English.
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