Synechron is looking for x3 experienced Senior Solution Architects to lead a major technology disentanglement project during a significant business divestment.
The role encompasses both the physical separation of data centres (including cage, rack, network, and shared-service separation) and the design of the target environment and migration strategy to transition workloads to new platforms.
Role:
* Lead architecture activities for application and corporate decoupling across a large estate of approximately 80 applications, including platforms like GBST, Workday, and ServiceNow
* Design data walls, application segregation, and separation patterns, supporting both the divested business and the retained entity
* Develop strategies for physical data centre separation and migration plans for workloads
* Design tenant-level controls, workload segregation, network segmentation, and identity separation within enterprise environments
* Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams, vendors, and stakeholders to translate architectural concepts into deliverable outcomes
* Produce high-level designs, transition plans, and decoupling patterns
* Support governance, secure approvals, and communicate complex solutions to senior stakeholders
Experience:
* Proven experience in enterprise solution architecture, corporate disentanglement, or divestiture programmes
* Expertise in application architecture, data segregation, SaaS platforms, and multi-cloud environments
* Hands-on experience with Microsoft 365 tenant architecture, Azure AD, network segmentation, and data centre separation
* Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, and communication skills
Preferred
* Experience within financial services, wealth management, pensions, or insurance sectors
* Familiarity with platforms such as GBST, Workday, and ServiceNow
* Architecture certifications (e.g., TOGAF, Azure, AWS)
* Knowledge of regulatory standards (e.g., GDPR, FCA)
Long term contract, multi-year inside IR35 - x3 days in Edinburgh office - Strong market rates
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