VMware Lead Solution Architect

Lead Datacenter & Cloud Solution Architect

We are looking for a highly experienced Datacenter & Cloud Solution Architect to support a strategic infrastructure transformation initiative focused on defining the next-generation enterprise datacenter architecture, technology stack, and operating model.

The role requires a strong combination of hands-on infrastructure knowledge, enterprise architecture capability, and executive-level advisory skills. The successful candidate will help shape a future-state architecture that is technically sound, resilient, scalable, commercially supportable, and suitable for long-term business growth.
Role Overview

The architect will lead the technical assessment of the existing infrastructure landscape and translate business, operational, resilience, security, and technology requirements into a clear set of architecture principles and future-state recommendations.

A key part of the role is maintaining an independent and technology-neutral perspective while evaluating different infrastructure, virtualization, cloud, and managed-service options.
Key Responsibilities
Responsibilities will include:

- Assessing the current datacenter and infrastructure environment

- Identifying technology dependencies, constraints, lifecycle risks, and modernization opportunities

- Defining future-state architecture principles and technical standards

- Designing target architecture across:
- Compute

- Storage

- Networking

- Virtualization

- Platform services

- Backup and recovery

- Disaster recovery

- Monitoring

- Automation

- Infrastructure management

- Evaluating alternative technology and architecture scenarios

- Comparing different platforms and technology providers objectively

- Assessing feasibility, complexity, compatibility, operational impact, lock-in, and strategic alignment

- Developing technical decision frameworks and architecture comparison models

- Assessing opportunities to reuse existing infrastructure and identifying refresh requirements

- Defining high-level migration strategies, dependencies, sequencing, and major risks

- Evaluating internal, hybrid, and managed operating models

- Providing technical assumptions to support sizing, licensing, lifecycle, support, migration effort, and cost assessments

- Supporting executive stakeholders with clear technical recommendations and decision materials

Expected Deliverables

The role may contribute to or own outputs such as:

- Current-state infrastructure assessment

- Architecture requirements and guiding principles

- Future-state datacenter architecture

- Technology option analysis

- Feasibility and risk assessment

- Architecture decision framework

- Recommended technology stack

- High-level migration roadmap

- Compatibility and lifecycle assessment

- Infrastructure sizing assumptions

- Licensing and support assumptions

- Migration and operational effort estimates

- Hardware refresh assumptions

- Technical inputs for Bill of Materials and cost modelling

- Operating model considerations

- Executive architecture recommendation

- Technology selection documentation

The architect will provide the technical foundation for financial and commercial evaluations, while not being responsible for commercial negotiations or detailed financial modelling.
Cloud & Hybrid Architecture

Strong experience with Microsoft Azure is required, particularly across:

- Landing zone architecture

- Identity and security integration

- Networking

- Compute and storage

- Governance and policy

- Monitoring and observability

- Hybrid connectivity

- Cloud operating models

- Cost optimization and FinOps considerations

Experience designing architectures that span on-premise, hybrid, and cloud environments is essential.
Infrastructure Expertise

Candidates should bring strong end-to-end knowledge of enterprise infrastructure, including areas such as:

- Enterprise compute platforms

- Storage architectures

- Datacenter networking

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