Lead Migration Architect

Job Description: Looking for a senior migration lead architect to lead data center physical lift and shift migration programs, ensuring secure, scalable, and resilient deployments with strong governance. You will design end-to-end migration delivery and architectures across compute, storage, network, and security, define strategies (lift & shift, replication, hybrid), and oversee execution with minimal downtime while engaging stakeholders and vendors. Qualifications 12–18+ years IT experience. 8+ years in Datacenter Physical lift and shift Migraiton Delivery and architecture roles. Experience in large-scale DC migration programs. Experience in multi-geo and multi-vendor environments. Exposure to BFSI or regulated domains preferred. Responsibilities Design end-to-end DC migration architecture across compute, storage, network, and security. Define migration strategy (lift & shift, replication, hybrid). Develop logical, physical, and technology architecture models. Support discovery, dependency mapping, and migration readiness. Provide technical oversight during migration execution and cutover. Ensure data integrity, system availability, and minimal downtime. Design DR, resiliency, and failover strategies. Engage with stakeholders, architects, and vendors. Prepare solution architecture documentation and technical artefacts. Migration strategy and approach document. DR and resiliency architecture. Migration runbooks and technical documentation. Compliance and security validation. Post-migration validation reports. Disaster recovery and resiliency planning. Migration strategy and planning. Stakeholder and governance management. Skills Data centre migration Solution architecture Stakeholder management Governance Cloud & hybrid Security architecture DR planning Education Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related

Data Center Migration Physical Lift & Shift Migration Migration Architecture Solution Architecture Compute Storage Network Security Architecture Replication Dependency Mapping Migration Readiness