Job Description Anticipated Contract End Date/Length: November 30, 2026 Work Set Up: Hybrid Our client in the Information Technology and Services industry is looking for a Storage Senior SAN SME / Architect to lead the design and architecture of enterprise storage platforms. This role requires a highly experienced professional with strong technical depth and the ability to confidently articulate architectural decisions, trade-offs, and design patterns across multiple storage technologies. The position focuses on delivering scalable, resilient, and high-performing storage solutions aligned with enterprise requirements and best practices. What you wil do: Lead end-to-end design of enterprise storage solutions from requirements gathering through high-level and low-level design. Define target-state storage architectures aligned to application, performance, scalability, and resilience requirements. Act as a technical authority in architecture discussions, clearly explaining design decisions, trade-offs, and alternatives. Produce detailed architecture documentation including high-level designs, low-level designs, and design rationales. Design and advise on block, file, and object storage solutions based on workload requirements. Contribute to architecture decisions related to backup, replication, disaster recovery, and data protection strategies. Integrate storage solutions with platforms such as VMware environments including vSphere and vCenter. Design solutions using enterprise storage platforms including SAN and NAS technologies. Evaluate storage platforms to ensure alignment with architectural and operational requirements. Ensure solutions meet best practices for availability, performance, security, scalability, and supportability. Review and challenge existing architectures to identify risks, improvements, and optimization opportunities. Engage with technical and non-technical stakeholders to provide guidance and design justification. Lead workshops and design reviews to align stakeholders on architectural direction. Mentor and support engineering teams on storage architecture principles and best practices.